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Rebranded Ethernet Technology Consortium Unveils 800 Gigabit Ethernet
With an increasing demand for networking speed and throughput performance within the datacenter and high performance computing clusters, the newly rebranded Ethernet Technology Consortium has announced a new 800 Gigabit Ethernet technology. Based upon many of the existing technologies that power contemporary 400 Gigabit Ethernet, the 800GBASE-R standard is looking to double performance once again, to feed ever-hungrier datacenters.
The recently-finalized standard comes from the Ethernet Technology Consortium, the non-IEEE, tech industry-backed consortium formerly known as the 25 Gigabit Ethernet Consortium. The group was originally created to develop 25, 50, and 100 Gigabit Ethernet technology, and while IEEE Ethernet standards have since surpassed what the consortium achieved, the consortium has stayed formed to push even faster networking speeds, and changing its name to keep with the times. Some of the biggest contributors and supporters of the ETC include Broadcom, Cisco, Google, and Microsoft, with more than 40 companies listed as integrators of its work.
[...] All told, the 800GbE standard is the latest step for an industry as a whole that is moving to Terabit (and beyond) Ethernet. And while those future standards will ultimately require faster [Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes)] to drive the required individual lane speeds, for now 800GBASE-R can deliver 800GbE on current generation hardware. All of which should be a boon for the standard's intended hyperscaler and HPC operator customers, who are eager to get more bandwidth between systems.
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(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 09 2020, @08:03PM (5 children)
Imagine how quickly Zoom will be able to harvest all your personal information with that sort of data rate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 09 2020, @08:17PM (3 children)
Zoom? What about Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon..... TenCent, Huawei, other unknown spyware,, IoT spyware, the Russians, Iranians, Israelies....
But I am safe I tell you. WE had copper and they brought us fibre optic a couple of years back. 20x faster they said. I had faster connections over a 9600 baud modem 30 years ago. So exfiltrate away ye corporates and pirates, it will take you ten trillion years to download one photo.
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday April 09 2020, @09:51PM (2 children)
I'm safe. I only use Google, Android, Chrome OS, Amazon and other safe applications that would never abuse my trust.
There, take that Microsoft, Apple and Zoom!
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You know how parking enforcement can put a boot on your car for unpaid parking tickets?
Well now you can do the same thing to your computer! With systemd-boot! It's more better than GRUB, well, because!
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Friday April 10 2020, @11:45AM (1 child)
Why the resentment? BTW, thanks for pointing it out, I didn't know it exists. If you are as paranoid as you seem to be, I suggest to first start systemd-rootkit (AKA Snapshot + Emulator), this allows you to roll back any malicious changes that might happen later.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday April 10 2020, @03:13PM
<no-sarcasm>
In all seriousness, I do write my own systemd unit files, for example, to start multiple independent Apache Tomcat instances as services. Sometimes different Tomcat instances might even run on different versions of Java, and different versions of Tomcat software depending upon what is needed. Distributions use systemd. It's just a fact of life. As long as it works, I don't have a problem with it. I also have to use Windows -- but I am not responsible for maintaining it.
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Not only will the boot loader be absorbed into systemd, but the kernel and all distributions will as well! Just imagine! One install of systemd and you have all distributions available as part of that install! I don't just mean different desktop environments. I mean distributions, right down to their kernels, package management systems, etc. The unix philosophy. One giant tool that does everything. Sort of like Windows. And with the same kind of reliability and security.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 10 2020, @07:13PM
https://www.theonion.com/zoom-ceo-reclines-back-in-chair-in-front-of-massive-wal-1842781626 [theonion.com]