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UALink consortium set to compete with Nvidia's NVLink: AMD- and Intel-led group opens doors to contributing members.<\/h2>\n
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The Consortium Ultra Accelerator Link (ULink)<\/strong> has been officially incorporated, meaning it is now a legal entity. \ud83c\udf89 This consortium seeks to set a new standard for high-speed, low-latency communication between servers in AI data centers. It has prominent members on the board of directors, including giants such as AMD, Intel, Meta, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Astera Labs, Cisco, Google<\/strong> and Microsoft<\/strong>. They are also looking for new contributing members to join this initiative. \ud83e\udd1d<\/p>\n

\"UALINK<\/strong><\/p>\n

UALink<\/strong> aims to become the open industry standard for expanded connections of multiple AI accelerators, competing directly with NVLink<\/strong> of Nvidia<\/strong>. NVLink is Nvidia's solution for communication between GPUs in servers, using Infiniband<\/strong>, other Nvidia technology<\/a> for higher scaling. However, Infiniband now faces competition from the emerging Ultra Ethernet<\/strong>, another major consortium of tech giants looking to counter Nvidia's dominance with an open standard. \ud83d\ude80<\/p>\n

Willie Nelson<\/strong>, President of the Consortium UALink<\/a>, is opening the doors for new companies and groups to join this exciting project. \ud83d\udcbc \u00abInterested companies are encouraged to join as contributing members to support our mission: to establish an open and high-performance accelerator network performance<\/a> para cargas de trabajo de IA\u00bb, afirm\u00f3 Nelson. La especificaci\u00f3n 1.0 de UALink<\/a> estar\u00e1 disponible para los miembros este a\u00f1o. \ud83d\udd0d<\/p>\n

\"UALINK<\/p>\n

The standard will allow a connection of up to 200 Gbps per lane<\/strong> for up to 1,024 accelerators within an AI module. In a typical scenario with AI-style servers, Nvidia<\/a> HGX<\/strong>, que contienen 8 aceleradores de IA, UALink podr\u00eda conectar hasta 128 de estas m\u00e1quinas en un m\u00f3dulo. Sin embargo, es probable que UALink se utilice con mayor frecuencia a menor escala, facilitando la comunicaci\u00f3n entre m\u00f3dulos de alrededor de ocho servidores, con ampliaci\u00f3n adicional a trav\u00e9s de Ultra Ethernet<\/a>. \ud83d\udd17<\/p>\n

\"UALINKConsortium members will have access to the specification this year, and a general review will be opened in the first quarter of 2025. The release of the UALink standard will coincide with the debut of version 1 of Ultra Ethernet<\/strong>. \ud83c\udf10 AMD<\/a> recently announced the first card 400 GbE<\/strong> ready for industry Ultra Ethernet. UALink and Ultra Ethernet are backed by industry giants looking to dethrone Nvidia and it is almost sure<\/a> which will establish themselves as open standards in the field of AI data centers, thanks to their broad levels of support. \ud83d\udcc8<\/p>\n

The work that UALink companies are doing to create an open, high-performance accelerator fabric performance<\/a> and scalable is critical to the future of AI," he said. Forrest Norrod<\/strong>, executive vice president and general manager of AMD's data center solutions group. \ud83e\udde0 It is expected that Samsung<\/strong> be one of the first contributing members of the Consortium, having announced its intentions to join in June. \ud83d\udcc5<\/p>\n

The Ultra Consortium is likely Ethernet<\/a> I also experienced many collaborations, with industry giants such as Baidu, Dell, Huawei, IBM, Nokia, Lenovo, Supermicro<\/strong> and Tencent<\/strong>, which have joined as contributors to the EU in recent months. \ud83c\udf1f Nvidia is expected to remain outside the Consortium, as its technologies<\/a> NVLink and Infiniband are proprietary and have already seen widespread use thanks to the company's dominance in the AI data center market. \ud83d\udd12<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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