Nokia has announced its support for the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC), an organization that is aiming to develop specifications and APIs for AI and High Performance Computing (HPC) deployments. The UEC was established in July, and is housed inside the Linux Foundation. Its founding members are AMD, Arista, Broadcom, Cisco, Eviden (part of Atos), HPE, Intel, Meta, and Microsoft. A collaboration with the Open Compute Project (OCP) followed in October, which is developing open HPC compute infrastructure specifications. The process for accepting new members also began in October, and now a raft of 27 firms have joined. The most relevant for Wireless Watch are Dell, Fujitsu, Huawei, Juniper Networks, Nokia, and Samsung SDS, but the full list includes: Alibaba Cloud,…