DARPA aims to make networks 100 times speedier with FastNIC
Devin Coldewey@techcrunch / 8:38 pm EDT • September 26, 2019
Having a slow connection is always frustrating, but just imagine how supercomputers feel. All those cores doing all kinds of processing at lightning speed, but in the end they’re all waiting on an outdated network interface to stay in sync. DARPA doesn’t like it. So DARPA wants to change it — specifically by making a new network interface a hundred times faster.
The problem is this. As DARPA estimates it, processors and memory on a computer or server can in a general sense work at a speed of roughly 10^14 bits per second — that’s comfortably into the terabit region — and networking hardware like switches and fiber are capable of about the same.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/26/darpa-aims-to-make-networks-100-times-speedier-with-fastnic/
