{"id":2019,"date":"2025-07-20T22:33:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2025-07-20T22:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:33:19","slug":"hardware-lottery-tomahawk-faang-flightawre-cloudflare-radar-gpu-facts-peter-shor-ibm-seth-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/hardware-lottery-tomahawk-faang-flightawre-cloudflare-radar-gpu-facts-peter-shor-ibm-seth-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardware Lottery, Tomahawk, FAANG, FlightAwre, Cloudflare Radar, GPU facts, Peter Shor, IBM, Seth Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hardware Lottery<\/a>: There is Cerebras, attempts of optical networking and interconnects. So I guess there is a bit of variety out there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tomahawk Ultra<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

With the Tomahawk Ultra, Broadcom has a switch ASIC with 51.2 Tb\/sec of aggregate bandwidth that runs the Ethernet protocol and delivers 250 nanosecond port-to-port hop latency and can push through 77 billion PPS. That is twice the PPS at the same small packet sizes common in HPC as the 102.4 Tb\/sec Tomahawk 6 switch ASICs from Broadcom, which have a latency of somewhere between 600 nanoseconds and 700 nanoseconds for these packet sizes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Network Engineer at FAANG<\/a>: Need to read all posts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arista UltraEthernet<\/a>: Intro<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FlightAware<\/a>: Interesting for tracking Ryanair flights…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cloudflare Radar<\/a>: Need to test it<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GPU facts<\/a>: It goes beyond me very quickly but still interesting<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Shor Quantum Notes<\/a>: For when I retired<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IBM Quantum<\/a>: In the last months, there have been many breakthroughs but I still dont see any real application. This is also quite beyond me so maybe I am missing the plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seth Notes<\/a>: Amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hardware Lottery: There is Cerebras, attempts of optical networking and interconnects. So I guess there is a bit of variety out there. Tomahawk Ultra: With the Tomahawk Ultra, Broadcom has a switch ASIC with 51.2 Tb\/sec of aggregate bandwidth that runs the Ethernet protocol and delivers 250 nanosecond port-to-port hop latency and can push through … Continue reading “Hardware Lottery, Tomahawk, FAANG, FlightAwre, Cloudflare Radar, GPU facts, Peter Shor, IBM, Seth Notes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpu","category-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thomarite.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}