Rewired for AI: An Introduction to UltraEthernet

Name: Rewired for AI: An Introduction to UltraEthernet
Start: 2026-09-08T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-09-08T21:00:00-07:00
Location: 925 Thompson Place, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94085, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/565084

September 8 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

As AI and HPC workloads scale exponentially, traditional network fabrics are hitting a critical bottleneck. Legacy Ethernet simply wasn’t built for the ultra-low latency and zero-loss tolerances demanded by next-generation clusters. This talk will provide an engineering-first primer on UltraEthernet—the industry’s collaborative answer to modern data center scaling.
Rip Sohan will dissect the architectural gaps of legacy networks, analyze the new data plane building blocks, and unpack the specification’s advanced congestion control and reliability mechanisms. He will also explore how UltraEthernet integrates with existing RDMA ecosystems. Attendees will leave with a definitive mental model of the fabric designed to power the future of compute.
Speaker(s): Rip Sohan,
925 Thompson Place, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94085, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/565084

Details

Date: September 8
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Website: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/565084

Venue

925 Thompson Place, Sunnyvale, California, United States, 94085, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/565084