Lenovo, Nvidia partnership bridges HPC and enterprise AI with switches for optimized networking - SiliconANGLE

Artificial intelligence is fast becoming a part of the everyday enterprise workflow, but the computing infrastructure to support such a data-intense task must modernize. As businesses transform to better leverage data intelligence and become more agile through cloud-native processes, high-performance networking becomes priority. But investing in the InfiniBand standard for high-performance computing network switches has been a hard sell for information-technology departments with an existing Ethernet fabric in place. Enabling enterprise to catch the fast train to intelligent business operations are long-time partners Nvidia Corp. and Lenovo Group Ltd. "We love, from an HPC perspective, to use InfiniBand," said Scott Tease (pictured, right), general manager of HPC and AI at Lenovo. "But most enterprise clients are using Ethernet. We go to a partner that we've trusted for a very long time. And we selected the Nvidia Mellanox Ethernet switch family."