Pure Storage announced that it joined the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), a Linux Foundation initiative committed to building a complete, open, and accessible Ethernet-based architecture to accelerate critical, data-intensive AI and HPC applications.
“Since its inception, Pure Storage has committed to delivering flexible, reliable, high-performance data storage technologies and services to simplify the enterprise data experience. Joining the UEC provides Pure with the opportunity to work alongside leaders in compute, networking, and storage to drive the development of a new ultra-Ethernet architecture for the most advanced AI and HPC workloads,” Maciej Kranz, GM, Enterprise at Pure Storage, said.
Ethernet technology
To support AI innovation, UEC aims to advance Ethernet technology as a scalable solution to address challenges in achieving AI goals. Pure Storage will accelerate platform development to support UEC standards long-term by contributing to the standardisation and growth of high-performance Ethernet for large-scale AI and HPC initiatives.
Joining UEC can allow Pure Storage customers to enjoy faster time to innovationas AI and HPC workloads are accelerated, cost-effective, and efficient operations throughfaster compute, network, and link speeds, lower latency, and higher network utilisation.
It also gives customers greater choice between IB and Ethernet networks, enabling the extension of customers’ Ethernet networking investments into the AI and HPC applications they are adopting.
