Time & Location
Sep 08, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
Zoom
About the event
CNSV: (NOTE: timezone)
https://californiaconsultants.org/event/rewired-for-ai-an-introduction-to-ultraethernet/
As AI and HPC workloads scale exponentially, traditional network fabrics are hitting a critical bottleneck. Legacy Ethernet simply wasn’t built for the ultra-low latency and zero-loss tolerances demanded by next-generation clusters. This talk will provide an engineering-first primer on UltraEthernet—the industry’s collaborative answer to modern data center scaling.
Rip Sohan will dissect the architectural gaps of legacy networks, analyze the new data plane building blocks, and unpack the specification’s advanced congestion control and reliability mechanisms. He will also explore how UltraEthernet integrates with existing RDMA ecosystems. Attendees will leave with a definitive mental model of the fabric designed to power the future of compute.
About the speaker, Rip SohanofAMD
Rip Sohan is a Engineering Fellow at AMD, where he leads end-to-end system architecture for high-performance enterprise and AI NICs. His work centers on hardware–software co-design across the entire networking stack—spanning NIC micro-architecture, firmware, kernel networking, and user-space…