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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.
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.
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.