As enterprises embrace artificial intelligence (AI), they often find their existing infrastructures are not optimal for AI’s workload demands. A new industry group, the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), aims to address the issue by building a complete Ethernet-based communication stack architecture for AI and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
Given the reliance on standards-based Ethernet in virtually every organization, the group made it clear from the start that the effort will not disrupt anything. “This isn’t about overhauling Ethernet,” said Dr. J Metz, Chair of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, in a prepared statement released when the group was announced. “It’s about tuning Ethernet to improve efficiency for workloads with specific performance requirements.”
