Ethernet, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Ethernet comes up on Acquired, Sourcery, the MAD Podcast, the a16z Podcast, Latent Space
Next 100x in AI: Inference, Networking, & Self-Optimizing Models — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
- ▶ 50:45 Philip Kiely They also do a lot of work on, um, model parallelism, especially over, uh, you know, heterogeneous topology, where you have, you know, some sparks, and they are wired together with, you know, Ethernet, DGX sparks.
Lumentum CEO: How Lasers Are Transforming AI Data Centers · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 17:26 Michael Hurlston There are a ton of Ethernet cables. 4 times in the scene
The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban
- ▶ 28:12 Stephen Balaban The other one is, um, Nickel NCCL, which is their networking optimization library, where it will sense the topology and the connected nature of your, um, network, your InfiniBand or your Ethernet network.
Wall Street Rejected This CEO & Then He Did a $200M IPO | Kanwal Rekhi
- ▶ 29:04 Kanwal Rekhi You know, at the time between the technology that internet uses, Ethernet and TCP IP.
GPUs, TPUs, & The Economics of AI Explained | Gavin Baker Interview · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 30:34 Gavin Baker Like I have to go really deep on something like, do you think PCI Express or Ethernet is a better protocol for scale up networking and why?
Mercado Libre: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, & their own fleet of planes | Sebastian Barrios
- ▶ 1:09:09 Sebastian Barrios Uh, the internet, and, and, uh, like, for example, why is Ethernet called Ethernet?
No Priors Ep. 89 | With NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang
- ▶ 11:56 Jensen Huang Now, we build a whole thing like that, and then we, for every single thing, every combination, uh, air-cooled, x-eighty-six, liquid-cooled, Grace, Ethernet, InfiniBand, NVLink, no NVLink, you know what I'm saying?
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang · Acquired
- ▶ 41:21 Jensen Huang And so, it's the inverse of hyperscale almost, and the way that you design a hyperscale computer with, with off-the-shelf commodity Ethernet, which is just fine for Hadoop, it's just fine for search queries, it's just fine for all of those…
- ▶ 41:38 Jensen Huang And so, now that observation says that the type of networking you want to do is not exactly Ethernet, and the way that we do networking for supercomputing is really quite ideal.
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:01:57 Ben Gilbert There were a bunch of players in it, but the traditional wisdom was, while InfiniBand is way faster, way higher bandwidth, a much more efficient way to transfer data around a data center, at the end of the day, Ethernet is the lowest…
- ▶ 1:02:12 Ben Gilbert And so, everyone had to implement Ethernet anyway, and so most companies actually exited the market, and Mellanox was kind of the only InfiniBand spec provider left.
- ▶ 1:02:24 David Rosenthal It is a competing standard to Ethernet.
- ▶ 1:02:33 David Rosenthal And back in 2020, everybody was like, Ethernet's fine.
- ▶ 1:02:40 David Rosenthal Ethernet between racks in a data center.
- ▶ 1:03:05 Ben Gilbert People thought, oh, sure, for supercomputers, for these academic purposes, but what the enterprise market needs in my shared cloud computing data center is Ethernet, and that's fine, and most workloads are gonna happen right there on one…
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on 3 Key Breakthroughs Startups Experience in Success, The Rise of Angel and Operator Funds, Multi-Stage Funds Re-Entering Seed Investing and The Insight Development Framework
- ▶ 16:17 Mike Maples Similarly, when Bob Metcalfe was at Xerox PARC inventing the ethernet, he lived in a world where everybody had a 60,000 dollar personal computer on their desk and a WYSIWYG display and graphical user interface and a mouse.
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Cities -- Analogies
- ▶ 25:35 Devon Zuegel Internet wouldn't work without Ethernet.
a16z Podcast | Nootropics and the Best Version of Your Brain, Yourself
- ▶ 21:43 Kyle Russell Right, and this is, this is the, uh, description of what happened when they, you know, brought about Ethernet, and, you know, a couple of people had Ethernet cards, not that useful, but if everyone in the office is, as a connected computer,
Cryptonetworks and Cities: Analogies
- ▶ 24:36 Devon Zuegel Internet wouldn't work without Ethernet.
A Fireside Chat with MapR CTO M.C. Srivas (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
- ▶ 19:44 M.C. Srivas So, we think of ourselves as, as Ethernet, right? 3 times in the scene