By: Kurtis Bowman, UALink Consortium Chair and Director, Architecture and Strategy at AMD
The Ultra Accelerator Link™ (UALink™) Consortium officially incorporated in October 2024, hitting the ground running with a rapidly growing membership of over 80 members. Our members represent an incredibly diverse list of companies comprised of Cloud Service Providers, System OEMs, IP Providers, Silicon Providers, Software Companies and more.
It is my pleasure to serve as the UALink Consortium Chair and help lead the Consortium’s efforts to foster innovation and establish an open, interoperable standard for high-performance computing connections in scale-up AI environments.
Through the collaborative efforts of our diverse group of industry experts, the Consortium will be publishing the UALink 1.0 Specification shortly. The specification is a major step towards enabling high-speed, scale-up interconnects for next-generation AI clusters.
Looking forward, we will continue to pursue our vision to unleash AI’s potential through connecting devices via an optimized, high-performance interconnect. With the support from our member companies and their dedicated efforts in our technical and marketing working groups, we will continue to develop specifications to facilitate direct load, store, and atomic operations between AI Accelerators and establish an optimized scale-up environment.
On behalf of the Board, we hope you will join in our efforts and become a member of the UALink Consortium. Below, I have shared a high-level overview of our membership tiers and their benefits.
Contributor Membership
Contributor membership is $25K for the first year and $15K each subsequent year with the following benefits:
Influence the direction of the technology by participating in our technical and marketing working groups
Access to the intermediate specifications (dot-level releases)
Implement UALink technology within the IP protections as outlined in the UALink Participation Agreement
The UALink Consortium Working Groups include:
Marketing
Systems & Manageability
Additional Technical Working Groups are forming – stay tuned for updates. Contributor members can view the list of working groups and sign up to join via Causeway to receive the latest information and meeting invitations. I encourage you to sign up now and become a founding member of these groups
Adopter Level
Adopter membership is $5,000 for the first year and $3,000 each subsequent year and allows your company to:
Gain early access to the final specification releases
Implement UALink technology within the IP protections as outlined in the UALink Participation Agreement
Both Contributor and Adopter member applicants must review and agree to the incorporation documents – including the Corporate Bylaws, the Intellectual Property Policy, and the Antitrust Policy prior to signing the membership agreement.
Join the UALink Consortium
Complete the UALink Participation Agreement and return the completed agreement along with two versions of your company logo to the UALink Administration (admin@ualinkconsortium.org). Contact the UALink Administration if you have any questions.
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