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And specifically, it borrows some themes from the “Aries” proprietary interconnect created by supercomputer maker Cray and announced in the “Cascade” CX30 machines back in November 2013. With Aquila, Google seems to have done what Intel might have been attempting to do with Omni-Path, if you squint your eyes a bit as you read the paper, which was published during the recent Network Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) conference held by the USENIX Association. In any event, it has been a while since the search engine and advertising behemoth dropped a big paper on us all, but Google has done it again with a paper describing Aquila, a low-latency datacenter fabric that it has built with custom switch and interface logic and a custom protocol called GNet that provides low latency and more predictable and substantially lower tail latencies than the Ethernet-based, datacenter-wide Clos networks the company has deployed for a long time now. The competition for talent in the upper echelon of computing is so intense that Google needs to do this to attract brainiacs who might otherwise go to a startup or one of its many rivals. The other interesting thing about Google now is that it is not revealing what it did years ago, as in all of those earlier papers, but what it is doing now to prepare for the future.

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Google is moving out from data processing and the systems software that underpins it and through scheduling and into the network, both in the datacenter and at the edge, as it unveils its handiwork and technical prowess to the world.

Two asides: Look at where the problems are. Google has never done a paper on its Colossus or GFS2 file system, the successor to GFS and the underpinning of Spanner, but it did mention it in the Spanner paper above and it did give a video presentation during the coronavirus pandemic last year about Colossus to help differentiate Google Cloud from its peers. The Andromeda virtual network stack in 2018. The Espresso edge routing software stack in 2017. The Jupiter custom datacenter switches in 2015. The Borg cluster controller in 2015 and again with the Omega scheduler add-on in 2016. The Spanner distributed database in 2012. Warehouse-scale computing as a concept in 2009. The MapReduce analytics platform in 2004. This is one of those big moments when Google does something that makes everyone in the IT industry stop and think. This could be caused by other issues though so it might not be limited to this ethernet adapter.Frustrated by the limitations of Ethernet, Google has taken the best ideas from InfiniBand and Cray’s “Aries” interconnect and created a new distributed switching architecture called Aquila and a new GNet protocol stack that delivers the kind of consistent and low latency that the search engine giant has been seeking for decades. They have also noticed that streaming music to it from their smartphone will cause it to cut out from time to time. They do warn you that anyone else on the network can see and control your Google Home too.

They were aware that the Chromecast and Google Home products shared similar hardware, so they purchased the ethernet adapter from Google to see if it would work.Īnd indeed it did work! All you have to do is connect the ethernet adapter to Google Home via the port in the back (which is hidden by the speaker grill) and it will work. Naturally, this is not allowed at some work and school environments so they were forced to go through an alternative route. It seems Google Home has difficulties connecting to 802.1x (WPA2 Enterprise) WiFi networks unless you have MAC Auth set up to automatically allow the device to connect. Reddit user LeonJWood was having trouble connecting their Google Home unit to the wireless network that’s available to them.

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