We are doing a lot of work on systems for AI in recent years and historically have done some work on application-aware networking. This support will help us combine the two directions to provide datacenter network support for AI workloads both at the edge and inside the network.

Many thanks to Nandita Dukkipati for championing our cause. We’ve been trying to find a good project to collaborate on since 2016 when we had a chat at a Dagstuhl workshop!