The newly formed UALink Consortium brings together major tech companies to address the vital technical challenge of GPU-to-GPU connectivity in datacenters.
The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium has recently incorporated, giving companies the opportunity to join, and it has announced that the UALink 1.0 specification will be available for public consumption in Q1 2025. Included in the Consortium are its “Promoter” members, including AMD, Astera Labs, AWS, Cisco, Google, HPE, Intel, Meta and Microsoft.
Celebrities React To Trump Win: Roseanne Barr Says She’d Work For Trump, Billie Eilish Says He ‘Hates Women’This is not just a training issue, however. As enterprise IT organizations begin to operationalize generative AI, performing inference at scale is also challenging. In the case of AI and other demanding workloads such as HPC, the CPU can significantly limit system and cluster performance. This can have many implications in terms of performance, cost and accuracy.
As an organization’s needs grow, Ultra Ethernet Consortium-based connectivity can be used for scale-out. In 2023, industry leaders including Broadcom, AMD, Intel and Arista formed the UEC to drive performance, scale and interoperability for bandwidth-hungry AI and HPC workloads. In fact, AMD just launched the first UEC-compliant NIC, the Pensando Pollara 400, a few weeks ago. , the X-Series is a switch aimed at GPU-to-GPU connectivity.
It will be interesting to watch how server vendors such as Dell, HPE, Lenovo and others choose to support both UALink and NVLink. NVLink uses a proprietary signaling interconnect to support Nvidia GPUs. Alternatively, UALink will support accelerators from a range of vendors, with switching and fabric from any vendor that adheres to the UALink standard.
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