Name: Alibaba Cloud ditches Nvidia’s interconnect in favor of Ethernet — tech giant uses own High Performance Network to connect 15,000 GPUs inside data center
Uploaded: 2024-07-01T03:46:02-04:00
Duration: 5 min
Description: Alibaba Cloud engineer and researcher Ennan Zhai shared his research paper via GitHub, revealing the Cloud provider’s design for its data centers used for LLM training. The PDF document, entitled “Alibaba HPN: A Data Center Network for Large Language Model Training,” outlines how Alibaba used Ethernet to allow its 15,000 GPUs to communicate with each […]

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Alibaba Cloud ditches Nvidia’s interconnect in favor of Ethernet — tech giant uses own High Performance Network to connect 15,000 GPUs inside data center

Alibaba Cloud engineer and researcher Ennan Zhai shared his research paper via GitHub, revealing the Cloud provider’s design for its data centers used for LLM training. The PDF document, entitled “Alibaba HPN: A Data Center Network for Large Language Model Training,” outlines how Alibaba used Ethernet to allow its 15,000 GPUs to communicate with each […]

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