Startup Profile: Cornelis Networks Hits Its Stride
Back in 2020, when Intel spun off its Omni-Path networking division to create Cornelis Networks, some thought Cornelis faced a steady, uneventful future serving HPC customers. They underestimated Cornelis's potential.
Cornelis today serves its InfiniBand-based networking technology to over 500 datacenters, including ones in the U.S. Government, including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and it plans to move into scale-up, or intra-rack networking of XPUs, in 2027.
Cornelis bases its approach to networking on a technology that improves on the traditional implementations of both Ethernet and InfiniBand. Specifically, Cornelis claims its CN5000 Omni-Path Switch and Super-NICs are an improvement over Ethernet’s lossiness and performance inconsistencies, while its adaptive routing capabilities surpass those of InfiniBand.
“You know, we have the lowest latencies, the highest message rates compared to other technologies,” said Matthew Williams, Field CTO at Cornelis, in an interview. “So, as Ethernet is a very good general-purpose network, it has some deficiencies…. And when we think about InfiniBand, you can think of us as being a much more advanced form of that kind of technology.”
Crossing a Wide Moat
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