Ultra Ethernet is a suite of technologies designed to enhance Ethernet for use in AI and HPC. This talk will describe the motivation for and goals of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, discuss the AI and HPC problems that it addresses, and go into some technical details of the Ultra Ethernet 1.0 solution, including Ultra Ethernet Transport -- the high-performance transport protocol designed by UEC specifically to support AI and HPC.
Hugh Holbrook
Hugh is the Chief Development Officer at Arista Networks, and is responsible for AI and Cloud platforms and systems software engineering at Arista. Hugh has been at Arista since 2005. Hugh serves on the Steering Committee of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium and chaired its Technical Advisory Committee. He is the inventor of Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), chaired the IETF working group that standardized it, and has authored multiple RFCs including the PIM-SM protocol spec. He has a BS, MS, and PhD from Stanford University in Computer Science.