Full Stack Networking for AI

Highest-performance full-stack networking for AI Infrastructure
- hardware, software, orchestration
and deployment/optimization services

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DriveNets AI Fabric
DriveNets AI fabric is a full-stack Ethernet-based networking solution for AI clusters’ back-end fabric, as well as front-end and storage connectivity – all with one solution. It includes hardware, software, and services supporting any AI infrastructure networking use case and GPU type. Test results from production environments show that DriveNets AI Fabric consistently demonstrates higher efficiency and performance, and faster deployment and fine-tuning time, compared to alternative InfiniBand or Ethernet fabric solutions.

DriveNets AI fabric is a full-stack networking solution that includes hardware, software, and services supporting any AI infrastructure networking use case.

Highest performance AI Networking

Hardware

  • DriveNets Fabric-Scheduled Ethernet switches: 9300F, 5300R and 5301R
  • DriveNets Endpoint-Scheduled Ethernet switches: 2500S, 2600SL, 2601S
  • Network Interface Cards (NICs): a choice of NICs from industry leading vendors including AMD and Broadcom with performance optimization software

Use-cases

  • Scale-up networking: for AMD-based infrastructure
  • Scale-out networking: scheduled-Ethernet solutions, with fabric-scheduling or endpoint-scheduling technologies

Software

  • DNOS and DN-SONiC: Network operating systems
  • DriveNets AI Cluster Orchestrator: an orchestration and management suite with provisioning, benchmarking and ongoing operations’ engines

Services

  • DriveNets Infrastructure Services (DIS): full ownership of AI cluster lifecycle management – from design to first token, 24/7 Maintenance & support, Kernel/ROCm optimization, NBI integration, Software services – E2E performance optimization

Network Platforms

DriveNets 2500S
51.2 Tbps full duplex
64 x 800 GbE QSFP
Broadcom Tomahawk 5
Hardware Specifications
Interfaces
Network 64 × 800 GbE OSFP800
Inband Mgmt. 2 x 25G SFP28
OOB Mgmt. 1x IG RJ45
Performance
Switching Capacity 51.2 Tbps
Physical
ASIC Broadcom Tomahawk 5
Memory 16GB x 2 with ECC (SO-DIMM) DDR4
Chassis 2RU
Typical / Max (with optics) 1100W / 1623W

 

DriveNets 2600SL
102.4Tbps full duplex
64 x 1600 GbE OSFP224
Broadcom Tomahawk 6
Liquid cooled
Hardware Specifications
Interfaces
Network 64 x 1600 GbE OSFP224
Inband Mgmt. 2 x 50G SFP56
OOB Mgmt. 1x IG RJ45
Performance
Switching Capacity 102.4 Tbps
Physical
ASIC Broadcom Tomahawk6
Memory 2 x 32GB DDR4 2666 RDIMM/SODIMM w/ECC
Chassis 2RU
Typical 4000W

DriveNets 2601S
102.4Tbps full duplex
64 X 1600 GbE OSFP224
Broadcom Tomahawk 6
Air cooled
Hardware Specifications
Interfaces
Network 64 x 1600G OSFP
Inband Mgmt. 2 x 50G SFP56
OOB Mgmt. 1x IG RJ45
Performance
Switching Capacity 102.4 Tbps
Physical
ASIC Broadcom Tomahawk 6
Memory 2 x 32GB DDR4 2666 RDIMM/SODIMM w/ECC
Chassis 2RU
Typical 400W

 

DriveNets 5300R
30.4Tbps full duplex
18x800G OSFP network interface ports
20x800G OSFP fabric interface ports
Broadcom Jericho3-based
Hardware Specifications
Interfaces
Network 18 x 800G OSFP
Fabric 20 × 800G OSFP
Inband Mgmt. 2 x 25G SFP28
OOB Mgmt. 2 x 10G SFP, 1x IG RJ45
Performance
Switching Capacity 30.4 Tbps
HBM Deep Buffer 16GB
Physical
ASIC Broadcom Jericho3
Memory 64GB DDR4 (2 x 32GB) with ECC
Chassis 2RU
Typical / Max (with optics) 782W / 1615W (14.5W port)

DriveNets 9300F
102.4Tbps full-duplex
128 x 800G OSFP fabric interface ports
Cell-based switching
Broadcom Ramon3-based
Hardware Specifications
Interfaces
Network 128 × 800G OSFP
Inband Mgmt. 2 x 25G SFP28
OOB Mgmt. 2 x 10G SFP, 1x IG RJ45
Performance
Switching Capacity 102.4 Tbps
Physical
ASIC 2x Broadcom Ramon3
Memory 32GB DDR4 SODIMM
Chassis 6RU
Typical / Max (with optics) 1135W / 4352W (14.5W port)

Use Cases

DriveNets AI Fabric includes a solution for any part of the networking fabric, including:

  • Scale-up networking – An Ethernet based (ESUN-SUE/T) solution for rack-scale scale up networking. Open-standard, low latency and high efficiency solution for AMD-based architectures.
  • Scale-out networking – Fabric-scheduled Ethernet: A cell-based fabric with standard Ethernet connectivity to endpoint ensures the highest performance networking for any GPU and any NIC.
  • Scale-out networking – Endpoint-scheduled Ethernet: Standard Ethernet Clos architecture with endpoint scheduling performed in the NIC, with multiple NIC providers supported (AMD, Broadcom) and standard-based packet spraying (Ultra-Ethernet)
  • Scale-across – A connectivity solution for back-end networking across multiple datacenters, suitable for distances of up to 100km.
  • Front-end and storage networking – a unified fabric for storage network and front-end connectivity

Software stack

DriveNets provides an end-to-end software stack, including:
DNOS: Network operating-system that runs on multiple hardware options
AI Cluster Orchestrator: a lifecycle orchestration system with engines tailored for:

  • Provisioning: a bring-up, configuration and scaling tool that automatically discovers and provisions the entire AI infrastructure, including servers, NICs, and network components, ensuring complete visibility and seamless deployment of an optimized reference architecture.
  • Benchmarking: an end-to-end cluster performance validation engine that streamlines cluster benchmarking by executing RDMA, RCCL/NCCL, and representative AI workloads to ensure the environment operates at peak performance
  • Ongoing management: a day-n cluster manager

DriveNets Infrastructure Services (DIS)

End-to-end professional services for any GPU fabric deployment, including:
Bring up services

  • Architecture design and validation
  • Deployment and integration of AMD GPU
  • Performance optimization and troubleshooting
  • Knowledge transfer and enablement of the customer’s internal teams

Software services

  • Kernel optimization
  • Collectives’ optimization
  • ROCm development and enablement
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