Nvidia wants to make long-haul GPU-to-GPU communication over Ethernet faster and more reliable, and hopes to achieve that with new Ethernet algorithms introduced on Friday. The Spectrum-XGS algorithms are software protocols baked into Nvidia’s latest Ethernet gear. The algorithms automatically adjust long-distance networking performance so distributed GPUs in servers across multiple data centers operate as a single, unified AI supercomputer. “It’s not a new hardware element, but it’s ...
