#OCPSummit23: AI is Open Compute Project's Biggest Challenge

Is AI the biggest challenge for the Open Compute Project (OCP)? Zaid Khan, Board Chair from Open Compute Project, explains:- The sudden pivot to AI caught everyone by surprise, leading to a race in optimizing systems, data centers, and infrastructure to accommodate this shift.- The lack of collaboration among companies and vendors in addressing AI challenges presents a unique opportunity for OCP to bring everyone together and solve these problems...

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Google opens Falcon for Hardware Transport

Google is contributing its Falcon hardware transport protocol to the Open Compute Project.Falcon is a hardware-assisted transport layer designed for high-performance, low-latency connections in Ethernet data center networks. It leverages production-proven technologies including Carousel, Snap, Swift, PLB, and CSIG.Falcon can support RDMA and NVM Express as well as other Upper layer protocols (ULPs).Some industry perspectives shared by Google:“We...

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BT unveils its next-gen Global Fabric

BT unveiled its new Global Fabric network for connecting enterprise customers with multiple clouds.BT says Global Fabric represents a generational shift in technology, based on a network-as-a-service (NaaS) technical and commercial model. The new network “underlay” will be an AI-powered digital orchestration layer. Global Fabric will be “deterministic”, selecting the optimal end-to-end paths for applications and workloads to move to and between...

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Broadcom develops DOCSIS 4.0 AI Chipset with Comcast

Comcast and Broadcom are designing and building the new chipset based upon CableLabs’ DOCSIS 4.0 specifications and aimed at enabling the first AI-powered access network.The new chipset that embeds AI and machine learning (ML) within the nodes, amps and modems that comprise the last few miles of Comcast’s network. Benefits are expected to include:Making smarter network performance decisions using network diagnostics insights produced by both local...

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OCP and Ultra Ethernet Consortium team on AI Clusters

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) and the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) announced a new collaboration to improve Ethernet performance for next-generation AI clusters and HPC. UEC plans to develop enhancements to Ethernet, and the OCP has an active Community developing sustainable large-scale computational infrastructure for AI and HPC with Ethernet. Key aspects of the collaboration will involve aligning work within OCP and UEC,...

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MaxLinear launches DOCSIS 4.0 cable modem and gateway chipset

MaxLinear released its DOCSIS 4.0 SoC cable modem and gateway platform, Puma 8. The new chipset builds on the success of its DOCSIS 3.0 and 3.1 predecessors (Puma 6 and 7) and includes all critical elements of a DOCSIS platform, including a low-power, ultra-high split upstream PGA. The platform is compliant to the DOCSIS 4.0 frequency division duplex (FDD) specification and enables immediate large-scale deployments as a DOCSIS 3.1 device with...

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