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Kiril Aleksovski
04/04/2024, 7:26 PMInfiniBand is nice but not that new I guess. I've seen it used in Oracle's Exadata machines from 2008 doing Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over InfiniBand which was quite revolutionary back then 😁
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Ismael Ghalimi
04/05/2024, 7:53 AMInfiniBand is not new indeed. In fact, I've been using InfiniBand-like network adapters like Myrinet since 1994. What's new is its availability on public cloud platforms and its deep integration within NVIDIA's architecture. These are game changers in my opinion.
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Kiril Aleksovski
04/05/2024, 9:58 AMMakes sense. After careful reading it's still unclear I guess how "proprietary" it is?!
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Ismael Ghalimi
04/05/2024, 8:33 PMWhat does "it" refer to in your question?
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Kiril Aleksovski
04/05/2024, 11:34 PMI was referring to the InfiniBand, I was not aware of the high cost and vendor lock in...
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Ismael Ghalimi
04/06/2024, 10:14 AMGot it. Yes, super expensive gear...
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Kiril Aleksovski
04/06/2024, 12:30 PMAlso thanks for pointing out to ArcticDB I wasn't aware of it's existence 😁.
A DataFrame database?! Impressive at first glance...