Ethernet leads AI computing: The cost-effective solution [Video]

As technological innovations take center stage in the enterprise world, networking issues are springing up, making Ethernet an ideal choice for scenarios that demand secure, stable and high-speed connectivity. 

Given that artificial intelligence continues to surface as a distributed computing issue, Ethernet is winning over InfiniBand, according to Ram Velaga (pictured, center), senior vice president and general manager at Broadcom Inc.

“What I mean by a distributed computing problem is you cannot take an AI workload and run it on one GPU, no matter how big your GPU is,” Velaga said. “I think two years ago if you talked to anybody, they said, ‘If you’re building a GPU cluster, AI machine learning, nothing other than InfiniBand would work.’ Today, when you look at it, seven out of the top eight largest clusters in the world are built based on Ethernet.”

Velaga and Ray Mota (right), principal analyst and chief executive officer for ACG Research, spoke with Mansour Karam (left), group vice president of products, data center, at Juniper Networks Inc., …