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Re:Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacent... by mikeyouse on Sunday November 03, 2024 @09:55AM (#42033390)
Yeah there’s a bit of industry worry about that very eventuality — hence the ultra Ethernet consortium trying to work on open source alternatives to the mellanox/nvidia lock-in.

https://ultraethernet.org/

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Re:Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacent... by ravetcofx on Sunday November 03, 2024 @04:53PM (#42036376)
Interesting Nvidia is on the steering committee
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Re:Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacent... by jclulow on Sunday November 03, 2024 @09:52PM (#42037984)
Cisco have sat on the steering committees for a lot of things where they had a proprietary initial version of something. It's not that unusual, and also, it's often frankly not actually that open; e.g., see the rent seeking racket for access to PCI documentation, or USB-IF actively seeking to prevent open source hardware from existing, etc.
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Re:Speed, scale and reliability: 25 years of Google datacent... by mikeyouse on Sunday November 03, 2024 @11:50PM (#42038564)
Eh, the UEC effort is a standards org through the Linux Foundation so it won't be subject to any of the usual chicanery. And actually, it looks like Nvidia is jsut a general member and not one of the Steering Committee members;

https://ultraethernet.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/0...

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