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Hermes

The fabric that binds the nodes.

A cluster is only as fast as its slowest link. Hermes is the interconnect itself, the fabric that turns racks and buildings into one machine, from in-rack links to coherent optics across cities.

8 fabric tiers
1.6T per port
sub-µs latency
2/6 Hexa: Connect · Photon
What you actually buy

The network is the computer, so we engineer it like one.

Every Hermes tier carries the same three commitments. The fabric is designed around your science, not pulled from a switch catalog.

The topology

Designed, not defaulted

We shape the fabric around your traffic, rail-optimized and non-blocking where it counts, not a catalog switch list.

The light

Photonics where copper ends

Coherent optics and co-packaged photonics carry your data between rooms and cities without losing coherence.

The determinism

Latency you can trust

Congestion control and telemetry tuned so collective operations finish on time, every job, every time.

Eight tiers, one fabric

From an in-rack link to coherent optics across cities.

One continuous fabric. Connect what you have today; every tier above reaches farther, never a re-cable.

In-rack, the node fabric

Hermes Link

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High-bandwidth host adapters, 400G to 800G per node, tuned for collective operations.

Hermes Rail

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A rail-optimized top-of-rack fabric that keeps accelerators talking at full line rate.

Campus, building to building

Hermes Spine

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A non-blocking InfiniBand or Ethernet spine, the backbone of a real cluster.

Hermes Campus

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A campus fabric that fuses several buildings into one low-latency machine.

Hermes Scale

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A full, non-blocking cluster fabric engineered for the largest collective jobs.

Metro & long-haul, city to city

Hermes Metro

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Coherent optical transport across a metro, two sites run as one coherent system.

Hermes Longhaul

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Inter-city coherent links that carry data gravity between distant facilities.

Hermes Optical

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Co-packaged and photonic front-ends, moving bits at the speed of light, from the port in.

Why it holds together

You scale the machine, not the wiring.

Most clusters hit a wall when the fabric can’t grow with the compute. Hermes is designed as one fabric from node to nation, so adding capacity never means re-cabling the idea.

MAP

Map the traffic

We model your collective patterns and data gravity before choosing a single cable.

WIRE

Wire the fabric

Rail-optimized, non-blocking topology built and validated to line rate.

EXTEND

Extend across sites

Coherent optics stretch the same fabric across metros and cities, one machine, many rooms.

“The shortest path between two ideas is a photon.”

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Hermes wires two faces into the fabric.

Connect and Photon, the copper and the light. Hermes is where the ring’s edges become one continuous fabric that the other faces ride on.

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