Copper is Faster than Fiber (2017) [pdf]

Re:Copper is Faster than Fiber (2017) [pdf] by Loughla on Thursday July 03, 2025 @01:29PM (#44457338)

Anything else? Because that's the only one I can think of.

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Re:Copper is Faster than Fiber (2017) [pdf] by smj-edison on Thursday July 03, 2025 @02:33PM (#44457939)

I'd expect HPC would be another, since a lot of algorithms that run on those clusters are bottlenecked by latency or throughput in communication.

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Re:Copper is Faster than Fiber (2017) [pdf] by williamdclt on Thursday July 03, 2025 @02:38PM (#44457985)

HPC?

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Re:Copper is Faster than Fiber (2017) [pdf] by Tijdreiziger on Thursday July 03, 2025 @02:55PM (#44458119)

HPC = High-Performance Computing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_computing

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Re:Copper is Faster than Fiber (2017) [pdf] by ezekiel68 on Thursday July 03, 2025 @06:54PM (#44459792)

For the parent: and not only bottlenecked at single hops but also hampered by the propagation of latency as the hops increase, depending on the complexity of the distributed system design.

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Re:Copper is Faster than Fiber (2017) [pdf] by throw0101b on Thursday July 03, 2025 @07:24PM (#44459940)

> […] by the propagation of latency as the hops increase […]

Which is why you get network topologies other than 'just' fat tree in HPC networks:

* https://www.hpcwire.com/2019/07/15/super-connecting-the-supe...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus_interconnect

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