[c0pium]

Infiniband is not a proprietary interconnect. Water is not a proprietary cooling system.

High scale is about using commodity components (hundreds of) thousands of times.

[xcv123]

HPE Slingshot is not Infiniband and it is proprietary to HPE.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.08886.pdf

The cooling system is also proprietary to HPE. Not saying that other vendors don't offer their own liquid cooling systems.