Oracle Acceleron Adds Front-End RDMA, an NCCL and RCCL Plugin for Multiplanar Failover, and 3x NVMe Block Storage Performance on OCI
Oracle announced a second round of Oracle Acceleron capabilities at Oracle AI World in Las Vegas, a year after the networking suite first bundled dedicated fabrics, multiplanar networking, SmartNICs, and direct data paths for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The new pieces are RDMA on OCI’s shared front-end network, NVMe block storage attachments across Acceleron bare metal and VM shapes that Oracle rates at up to 3x the block performance, a collective communications plugin that moves failover and load balancing into the NCCL and RCCL layer, and multiplanar networking extended to front-end…
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