Intel axes Nervana just two months after launch

Re:Intel axes Nervana just two months after launch by shaklee3 on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @01:00AM (#22244388)

Omnipath went the way infiniband is going. Ethernet has caught up, and surpassed the speeds, so using proprietary technology with fewer features isn't that attractive anymore.

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Re:Intel axes Nervana just two months after launch by sitkack on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @01:15AM (#22244430)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terabit_Ethernet is faster than the main memory bandwidth on current generation processors.

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Re:Intel axes Nervana just two months after launch by vardump on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @03:07AM (#22244885)

But not faster than L3 cache bandwidth. Some cards can DMA to L3 cache. Granted, eventually it's flushed to main RAM, so might not help too much in the end.

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Re:Intel axes Nervana just two months after launch by sitkack on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @10:22PM (#22253182)

Cool. That means it both prevents nethammer and allows the cpu to check a signature/decrypt/type check as value stream over the network.

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