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Six companies just released MRC, an open networking protocol that routes AI training traffic across hundreds of simultaneous paths to end GPU idle time at supercomputer scale.
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Six companies just released MRC, an open networking protocol that routes AI training traffic across hundreds of simultaneous paths to end GPU idle time at supercomputer scale.

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