Elliot Lombardo is a sales director at Edgecore Networks who writes this personal, unofficial blog about AI cluster networking and open networking topologies. It is not an Edgecore publication, and the views here are his own.
Disclaimer
Disclosure
I’m a sales director at Edgecore Networks, which sells open networking switches, including some of the hardware discussed below. This is my personal blog. Views are my own, not Edgecore’s.
The same disclosure appears at the top of every post. A few more things worth being clear about:
- Nothing here is a price, a roadmap, an availability date, a certification, or a promise from Edgecore or anyone else.
- I don’t publish confidential material from my employer, its partners, or customers, and I don’t name customers or prospects without their written permission.
- Product names are trademarks of their owners and are used here only to describe products. This site is personal and isn’t sponsored or endorsed by the companies I discuss. My employment at Edgecore is disclosed above.
- Specs are linked to public pages. Check them yourself before you buy anything, from anyone.
Writing with LLM assistance
I use large language models (LLMs) to help draft and edit these posts. The thoughts, ideas and opinions are my own. Sources and open questions remain visible so readers can assess the claims.
About me
I spend my working week with people building and running GPU clusters: neoclouds, research and sovereign clusters, and enterprises. I don’t build the clusters myself. These posts are field notes from the person in the room, with links so you can check every claim.
About this blog
- What: how AI clusters are networked with open Ethernet, written plainly.
- How often: about one post a month. See upcoming topics.
- Method: every post separates what’s known (public sources), what’s inferred, and what nobody has published.
- Terms: I use the definitions in the glossary.
- Corrections: if I get something wrong, I fix it and update the “last updated” date on the page.