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UEC (Ultra Ethernet Consortium)
A consortium developing an Ethernet-based, full-stack transport specification tuned for AI and HPC workloads, addressing congestion control, multipathing and in-order delivery requirements.
It aims to make Ethernet competitive with proprietary scale-out fabrics.
- Also known as
- Ultra Ethernet
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- Standards & Organisations, Consortia & alliances
Notes
Launched in 2023 as a Linux Foundation project; its 1.0 specification targets scale-out AI networks rather than scale-up accelerator links.
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