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I wasn't aware of 800G/1TB networking before.

Very strange world that transferring data between servers is 2x as fast as reading from a PCI bus.

InfiniBand, and unless you're super high up on the food chain (aka: married to NVIDIA), you won't get access to it for at least 52+ weeks after you submit your purchase order.

In case anyone else is wondering what InfiniBand is: https://network.nvidia.com/pdf/whitepapers/IB_Intro_WP_190.p...

The former is for throughput, the latter is for latency.

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