Catalog · Networking & Interconnect

AI Back-End Fabric & Optical Interconnect

What’s inside

1. Module 1

   The Fabric Is the Computer

   • The Tail Sets the Pace · 3 min · narrated
   • Two Tiers, Two Physics · 3 min · narrated
   • Module review

2. Module 2

   Scale-Up: Binding Chips Into One Machine

   • NVLink and the Memory-Semantic Trick · 3 min · narrated
   • NVSwitch and the Coherent Domain · 4 min · narrated
   • Module review

3. Module 3

   Scale-Out: Joining the Cores

   • Lossless, RDMA, and the Case for InfiniBand · 3 min · narrated
   • The Switch Silicon and Ethernet's Counterattack · 4 min · narrated
   • Module review

4. Module 4

   The Optics Layer: When the Wire Becomes Light

   • Why the Signal Must Become Light · 4 min · narrated
   • Co-Packaged Optics and the Under-Tracked Constraint · 4 min · narrated
   • Module review