In collaboration with industry peers, Pure
Storage commits to expanding the capabilities of high performance
Ethernet for large-scale AI and HPC initiatives
SANTA
CLARA, Calif., Aug. 13,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG),
the IT pioneer that delivers the world's most advanced data storage
technology and services, today announced that it joined Ultra
Ethernet Consortium (UEC), a Linux Foundation initiative dedicated
to building a complete, open, and accessible Ethernet-based
architecture to accelerate critical, data-intensive AI and HPC
applications.
As the leading data storage platform serving the most advanced
enterprise AI initiatives, Pure Storage commits to further defining
and integrating UEC technology standards, while building and
delivering a forward-compatible platform to optimize performance
for enterprise AI and HPC workloads using Ethernet, supporting
rapid innovation and faster time to market.
Industry Significance:
As enterprises strive to
achieve their AI goals, they face significant challenges with
existing network solutions that are difficult to manage and scale,
hindering the flexibility and efficiency needed for growing AI
workloads.
To address these challenges, UEC aims to advance Ethernet
technology, offering a scalable and efficient solution to support
AI innovation.
Ethernet's increased adoption in data centers, due to its lower
TCO, extensive interoperability, and proven reliability, has made
it the foundation for many of the world's largest AI clusters. The
advancement of new Ultra Ethernet standards will allow enterprises
to maximize their existing AI and HPC investments while deploying
performance-intensive applications, driving innovation, boosting
productivity, and enhancing operational efficiency.
News Highlights:
By contributing to the
standardization and growth of high performance Ethernet for
large-scale AI and HPC initiatives, Pure Storage will accelerate
platform development to support UEC standards long-term,
delivering:
- Faster Time to Innovation: As AI and HPC workloads
are accelerated, AI infrastructure powered by Ultra Ethernet will
enable lower job completion times and higher frequency iterations
that speed model building, training and inference, translating into
faster time to innovation, faster time to market, and shorter time
to insight.
- Cost-Effective, Efficient Operations: Faster
compute, network, and link speeds, as well as lower latency and
higher network utilization provides enterprises with high
performance AI and HPC networking and storage built on
cost-effective and easy to manage Ethernet-based switches and
storage.
- Enhanced Choice for Customers: Customers will have
greater choice between IB and Ethernet networks, allowing them to
extend their Ethernet networking investments into the AI and HPC
applications they are adopting.
Executive Insight:
"Since its inception, Pure Storage
has committed to delivering flexible, reliable, and 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, Pure
Storage
"The UEC is a leader in driving the evolution of Ethernet
technologies, accelerating innovation and setting new benchmarks
for performance, reliability, and scalability in networking. As a
member of the steering committee, Arista strongly supports the UEC,
and Arista is excited to have Pure Storage's deep data storage
expertise, in collaboration with other industry leaders, to advance
Ethernet standards and ultimately empower organizations to meet the
ever-growing demands of AI and HPC." - Hugh Holbrook, Chief Development Officer, Arista
Networks
"Ethernet stands as the leading networking technology for AI due
to its unmatched performance and scalability. UEC has emerged as a
unifying force, bringing together industry leaders to evolve
Ethernet technology for the next generation of AI and HPC. Given
the critical role of data storage and protection in a comprehensive
AI solution, we are thrilled to see Pure Storage join the
consortium, bringing their valuable expertise in these essential
areas." - Ram Velaga, Senior Vice President and General Manager,
Core Switching Group, Broadcom
"Intel strongly believes in an open ecosystem driven approach.
Intel is working with its ecosystem partners and customers to adapt
Ethernet for highly scalable AI / HPC fabrics. We are excited to
see our valued, long-time partner Pure Storage joining the UEC and
looking forward to keeping working together on joint solutions
driving AI everywhere." - Dorin
Vanderjack, VP & GM, U.S. OEM & Strategic Accounts,
Intel
Additional Resources:
- Blog: Pure Storage Has Joined the Ultra Ethernet
Consortium
- Learn more about UEC
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) delivers
the industry's most advanced data storage platform to store,
manage, and protect the world's data at any scale. With Pure
Storage, organizations have ultimate simplicity and flexibility,
saving time, money, and energy. From AI to archive, Pure Storage
delivers a cloud experience with one unified Storage as-a-Service
platform across on premises, cloud, and hosted environments. Our
platform is built on our Evergreen architecture that evolves with
your business – always getting newer and better with zero planned
downtime, guaranteed. Our customers are actively increasing their
capacity and processing power while significantly reducing their
carbon and energy footprint. It's easy to fall in love with Pure
Storage, as evidenced by the highest Net Promoter Score in the
industry. For more information, visit www.purestorage.com.
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About the Ultra Ethernet Consortium
Ultra Ethernet
Consortium (UEC) is bringing together leading companies for
industry-wide cooperation to build a complete Ethernet-based
communication stack architecture for high-performance networking.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High-Performance Computing (HPC)
workloads are rapidly evolving and require best-in-class
functionality, performance, interoperability and total cost of
ownership, without sacrificing developer and end-user friendliness.
The Ultra Ethernet solution stack will capitalize on Ethernet's
ubiquity and flexibility for handling a wide variety of workloads
while being scalable and cost-effective. For more information,
please visit us at https://ultraethernet.org.
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