Hardware1d ago
Thunderbolt-Ibverbs Brings InfiniBand to Consumer Hardware
The thunderbolt-ibverbs project enables InfiniBand-style RDMA over Thunderbolt cables. This allows developers to build high-speed clusters using standard laptops and consumer hardware. It bypasses expensive enterprise switches for small-scale distributed training. Practitioners can now experiment with low-latency networking without investing in proprietary NVIDIA Mellanox infrastructure.