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title: Blog posts tagged "network"
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# Blog posts tagged "network"

#### [What is RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)?](https://canonical.com/blog/what-is-rdma-over-converged-ethernet-roce)

Previous articles walked through RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) as a programming model and InfiniBand as the fabric that was built around it. Both led to the same conclusion, even if it was never stated outright: moving data, not compute, becomes the bottleneck once systems scale. So what happens when you want RDMA, but you’re

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AI

#### [What is InfiniBand?](https://canonical.com/blog/what-is-infiniband)

When distributed workloads stall because nodes cannot exchange small messages quickly and consistently, the network is the limiting factor. How do you solve that problem? InfiniBand offers one solution. InfiniBand is an interconnect, meaning the end-to-end communication system that links compute, storage, and accelerator nodes. It is impl

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AI

#### [Data Centre AI evolution: combining MAAS and NVIDIA smart NICs](https://canonical.com/blog/data-centre-ai-evolution-combining-maas-and-nvidia-smartnics)

It has been several years since Canonical committed to implementing support for NVIDIA smart NICs in our products. Among them, Canonical’s metal-as-a-service (MAAS) enables the management and control of smart NICs on top of bare-metal servers. NVIDIA BlueField smart NICs are very high data rate network interface cards providing advanced s

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AI

#### [Learn snapcraft by example – multi-app client-server snap](https://canonical.com/blog/learn-snapcraft-by-example-multi-app-client-server-snap)

Over the past few months, we published a number of articles showing how to snap desktop applications written in different languages – Rust, Java, C/C++, and others. In each one of these zero-to-hero guides, we went through a representative snapcraft.yaml file and highlighted the specific bits and pieces developers need to successfully bui

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DevOps