Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B

Re:Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B by virtuallynathan on Monday March 11, 2019 @04:20PM (#19362410)

With Mellanox ethernet switches, you lose some other features in exchange for lower latency. i.e. you can only break out 16 ports to 4x25G on a 100G switch (64 25G ports).

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Re:Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9B by OldManAndTheCpp on Monday March 11, 2019 @11:12PM (#19365062)

And you also get some benefits: enough internal bandwidth to allow every input port to cut through at line rate, and a single buffer to prevent starvation (the tomahawk chip has 4 groups of ports, each with a separate buffer).

Also, you can run cumulus on the switch, which is pretty awesome.

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