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Sep 9, 2023 · Industry Insights

Can NSLB Double AI Training Speed? Inside the 113% Performance Gain Over ECMP

The article analyzes AI‑training traffic patterns, critiques existing flow‑based, flowlet‑based, and packet‑based ECMP load‑balancing, introduces the NSLB solution tailored for AI clusters, and presents experimental results showing up to 113% speed improvement and sub‑millisecond failover with DPFF, while also discussing direct‑topology and intelligent lossless networking techniques.