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Re:Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware tran... by spoonjim on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @11:29PM (#37924541)
This criticism is a little weird. This is an internal protocol in Google’s datacenters. Why should it have to be compatible with anything?
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Re:Google opens Falcon, a reliable low-latency hardware tran... by stonogo on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @03:02AM (#37925615)
Because the whole point of the linked article is that they're making it part of the Open Compute Project, whose entire existence is devoted to making sure things are compatible with other things.
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