Big tech players throw weight behind ‘ultra ethernet’ to meet AI and HPC workloads

The Ultra Ethernet Consortium promises some new stack architecture designed to meet the ‘insatiable’ network demands of AI and high performance computing.
Founding members of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (a project ‘hosted’ by The Linux Foundation) include AMD, Arista, Broadcom, Cisco, Eviden, HPE, Intel, Meta and Microsoft – so there’s no shortage of tech A-listers there.
It’s mission broadly appears to be about tweaking or improving the