Pure Storage, a global leader in next-generation data storage, today announced that it has joined the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, a community project led by The Linux Foundation to develop an open, Ethernet-based architecture for high-speed connectivity to advance data-intensive AI and HPC applications.
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Pure Storage is the leading provider of modern data storage solutions for enterprise AI. It is committed to shaping and integrating UEC technology standards to deliver a forward-compatible platform that optimizes Ethernet performance for enterprise AI and HPC workloads, driving innovation, and accelerating time to market.
“Intel is committed to an open ecosystem for scalable AI/HPC fabrics. We are excited to have Pure Storage join the UEC, and we look forward to our continued collaboration to drive AI innovation.”
Industry Significance:
Enterprises are currently handicapped by network solutions that struggle to scale and manage the increasing demands of AI workloads. UEC has no doubt that Ethernet technology will resolve these concerns with a scaleable and efficient solution that will support AI innovation.
Ethernet, with its increasing usage in data centers because of its lower total cost of ownership, broader interoperability, and reliability, has become a fundamental base that underpins major AI clusters. Next-generation Ultra Ethernet standards will enable enterprises to accelerate AI and HPC investments without any limits and continue supporting performance-intensive applications, which drive productivity and operational efficiency.
News Highlights:
Accelerated Innovation: Ultra Ethernet will make a better AI infrastructure with quicker job completion, higher iteration frequency, and faster model building, training, and inference, and therefore faster innovation and time to market.
Cost-Effective Operations: Improving compute, network, and link speeds and reducing latency, with higher network utilization, will bring high performance in AI and HPC networking and storage. This will result in an easy-to-manage and cost-effective solution based on Ethernet-based switches and storage.
Increased choice for customers: The clear choices between IB and Ethernet networks will let customers expand their Ethernet investments more confidently in both AI and HPC applications.
Executive Insights:
“Agility and performance have always been at the heart of our vision for data storage at Pure since the very beginning. The partnership with UEC is simultaneously a sharing of some of the best minds we can work with to realize an advanced ultra-Ethernet architecture necessary for the most demanding workloads in AI and HPC.” — Maciej Kranz, VP, Corporate Strategic Innovation, Office GM, Pure
“The UEC is leading the evolution of Ethernet technology in performance and scalability. We are happy to welcome Pure Storage’s data storage experience into the consortium for the advancement of Ethernet standards to meet the growing demands of AI and HPC.” – Hugh Holbrook, Chief Development Officer, Arista Networks
“Ethernet’s performance and scalability make it the leading choice for AI networking. The UEC is bringing industry leaders to further Ethernet’s technology for AI and HPC. Pure’s experience in data storage and protection will prove of great value to this effort.” – Ram Velaga, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Core Switching Group, Broadcom
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