Decoding Computer Networks: The Hidden Backbone of AI: From basic bits to the high-speed nervous system of Artificial Intelligence. - Brossura

Punjani, Raghav

Brossura

ISBN 13: 9798184683645

Casa editrice: Independently published, 2026

Riassunto

Every AI model you use — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude — runs on a nervous system you've never seen. That nervous system is the network.

Decoding Computer Networks: The Hidden Backbone of AI takes you inside the high-speed infrastructure that makes Artificial Intelligence possible. Written for curious minds — not engineers — this book explains how thousands of GPUs talk to each other at the speed of light, why a single fingerprint on a fiber optic cable can crash a $100 million training run, and how the shift from North-South to East-West traffic completely broke the internet as we knew it.

No jargon without explanation. Every concept arrives with a real-world analogy — highways, kitchen chefs, mountain flashlights — so you feel the idea before you name it.

By the end of this book, you will understand:
• Why bandwidth, latency, and jitter are the three things keeping AI engineers awake at night
• How fiber optic cables transmit data as literal flashes of laser light
• The "Leaf-Spine" architecture that allows 10,000 servers to act as one brain
• What TCP/IP, DNS, and BGP actually do — and why the internet sometimes breaks
• How InfiniBand and RoCE power the AI clusters behind the world's most powerful models
• What's coming next: quantum networking, 1.6 Terabit links, and the future of AI infrastructure

Perfect for: students entering tech, software engineers expanding their knowledge, AI enthusiasts who want to understand what's under the hood, and anyone who has ever wondered how the cloud actually works.

This is the book that connects the dots between the AI revolution and the invisible infrastructure powering it.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Independently published
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 13: 9798184683645
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 77
• Contatto del produttore: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.it/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Lussemburgo