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by pclmulqdq 636 days ago
RoCE sends huge packets down the wire.

TCP has the wrong abstraction for truly high performance.

I wouldn't necessarily standardize what Tesla does here, but most of the big companies have their own layer 3 transport protocol for things that need truly high speed and are operating within a datacenter.

Cray/HPE has their own Ethernet-based protocol (Slingshot was an earlier version of it - not sure what its name is now) which seems to be better than whatever Tesla has, but is not necessarily published.