August 28, 2012, Hot Chips Conference, Cupertino, CA—The improvements in the core compute functions moves the data bottleneck to other areas of the systems. Three papers describe the on-going efforts to improve the data transport functions within a system. Ronald Dreslinski from the University of Michigan talked about a self-arbitrating crossbar for networks on chip [...]
May 2012 – At a small gathering in San Francisco Arista Co-Founder and industry luminary Andy Bechtolsheim their new high density Arista7100T auto-negotiating 10GbaseT switches. Available in a 1U rack form factor, the 24 port and 48 port switches feature a low cost cabling up to 100m with Cat6a connections and up to 55m with [...]
