Arista Delivers Holistic AI Solutions in Collaboration with NVIDIA
29 Mayo 2024 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Optimal GPU and Network Coordinated
Performance
Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET) today announced a technology
demonstration of AI Data Centers in order to align compute and
network domains as a single managed AI entity, in collaboration
with NVIDIA. In order to build optimal generative AI networks with
lower job completion times, customers can configure, manage, and
monitor AI clusters uniformly across key building blocks including
networks, NICs, and servers. This demonstrates the first step in
achieving a multi-vendor, interoperable ecosystem that enables
control and coordination between AI networking and AI compute
infrastructure.
Need for Uniform Controls
As the size of AI clusters and large language models (LLMs)
grows, the complexity and sheer volume of disparate parts of the
puzzle grow apace. GPUs, NICs, switches, optics, and cables must
all work together to form a holistic network. Customers need
uniform controls between their AI servers hosting NICs and GPUs,
and the AI network switches at different tiers. All these elements
are reliant upon each other for proper AI job completion but
operate independently. This could lead to misconfiguration or
misalignment between aspects of the overall ecosystem, such as
between NICs and the switch network, which can dramatically impact
job completion time, since network issues can be very difficult to
diagnose. Large AI clusters also require coordinated congestion
management to avoid packet drops and under-utilization of GPUs, as
well as coordinated management and monitoring to optimize compute
and network resources in tandem.
Introducing the Arista AI Agent
At the heart of this solution is an Arista EOS-based agent
enabling the network and the host to communicate with each other
and coordinate configurations to optimize AI clusters. Using a
remote AI agent, EOS running on Arista switches can be extended to
directly-attached NICs and servers to allow a single point of
control and visibility across an AI Data Center as a holistic
solution. This remote AI agent, hosted directly on an NVIDIA
BlueField-3 SuperNIC or running on the server and collecting
telemetry from the SuperNIC, allows EOS, on the network switch, to
configure, monitor, and debug network problems on the server,
ensuring end-to-end network configuration and QoS consistency. AI
clusters can now be managed and optimized as a single homogenous
solution.
“Arista aims to improve efficiency of communication between the
discovered network and GPU topology to improve job completion times
through coordinated orchestration, configuration, validation, and
monitoring of NVIDIA accelerated compute, NVIDIA SuperNICs, and
Arista network infrastructure,” said John McCool, Chief Platform
Officer for Arista Networks.
End-to-End AI Communication and Optimization
This new technology demonstration highlights how an Arista
EOS-based remote AI agent allows the combined, interdependent AI
cluster to be managed as a single solution. EOS running in the
network can now be extended to servers or SuperNICs via remote AI
agents to enable instantaneous tracking and reporting of
performance degradation or failures between hosts and networks, so
they can be rapidly isolated and the impact minimized. Since
EOS-based network switches are constantly aware of accurate network
topology, extending EOS down to SuperNICs and servers with the
remote AI agent further enables coordinated optimization of
end-to-end QoS between all elements in the AI Data Center to reduce
job completion time.
“Best-of-breed Arista networking platforms with NVIDIA’s compute
platforms and SuperNICs enable coordinated AI Data Centers. The new
ability to extend Arista’s EOS operating system with remote AI
agents on hosts promises to solve a critical customer problem of AI
clusters at scale, by delivering a single point of control and
visibility to manage AI availability and performance as a holistic
solution,” said Zeus Kerravala, Principal Analyst at ZK
Research.
Arista will demonstrate the AI agent technology at the Arista
IPO 10th anniversary celebration in NYSE on June 5th, with customer
trials expected in 2H 2024.
If you are a member of the analyst or financial community and
are interested in attending the NYSE event, please register
here.
To read more about the new AI Centers check out CEO and
Chairperson Jayshree Ullal’s blog here.
About Arista
Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven,
client-to-cloud networking for large data center/AI, campus, and
routing environments. Its award-winning platforms deliver
availability, agility, automation, analytics, and security through
an advanced network operating stack. For more information, visit
www.arista.com.
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