Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacenter networking evolution

Re:Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacent... by adrian_b on Sunday November 03, 2024 @04:58AM (#42032160)

Nvidia networking is what used to be called Mellanox networking, which was already dominant in datacenters.

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Re:Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacent... by immibis on Sunday November 03, 2024 @09:02AM (#42033111)

Only within supercomputers (including the smaller GPU ones used to train AI). Normal data centers use Cisco or Juniper or similarly.well known Ethernet equipment, and they still do. The Mellanox/Nvidia Infiniband networks are specifically used for supercomputer-like clusters.

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Re:Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacent... by wbl on Sunday November 03, 2024 @09:53AM (#42033379)

Mellanox Ethernet NIC got used a bunch of places due to better programmability.

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Re:Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacent... by dafugg on Sunday November 03, 2024 @04:52PM (#42036372)

You seem to have a narrow definition of “normal” for datacenters. Meta were using OCP mellanox NICs for common hardware platforms a decade ago and still are.

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Re:Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacent... by crmd on Sunday November 03, 2024 @06:32PM (#42037008)

Mellanox IB were ubiquitous in storage networking. None of the storage systems I worked on would have been possible without mellanox tech.

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Re:Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacent... by wil421 on Monday November 04, 2024 @11:10AM (#42042893)

Most people on the TrueNAS/FreeNAS forums use 10gb Mellanox nics that are sold on eBay. The sellers get them after server gear gets retired.

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