Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC)
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) is an industry consortium focused on advancing Ethernet technologies optimized for artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and high-performance computing (HPC) environments. UEC develops specifications and reference implementations that define protocols, signaling characteristics, application interfaces, and data structures for Ethernet communications, along with transport protocols and congestion management mechanisms designed to support high-performance, scalable, and interoperable data infrastructure.
SNIA collaborates with UEC to help ensure that emerging Ultra Ethernet technologies align with modern storage architectures and data infrastructure requirements. Through technical coordination and information sharing, SNIA and UEC work together to promote interoperability across networking, compute, and storage systems used in AI and HPC deployments. This collaboration helps support efficient data movement and scalable infrastructure for next-generation data-intensive workloads.
Collaboration between SNIA and UEC includes technical coordination and information sharing in areas such as:
• High-performance Ethernet communications for AI, ML, and HPC infrastructure
• Advanced transport protocols to support low-latency, high-throughput distributed workloads
• Congestion telemetry and signaling mechanisms for large-scale Ethernet fabrics
• Efficient data movement technologies, including RDMA-based communication models
• Integration of networking and storage architectures to support data-intensive workloads
• Interoperability and ecosystem alignment across compute, networking, and storage technologies
