Protocol

NVSwitch

Lab ready Full lab

Switch fabric chip that stitches many NVLink ports into all-to-all GPU topologies in DGX/HGX-class systems. Enables full-bandwidth collectives inside a node or rack island. Externally, multi-node work still crosses NICs and the datacenter fabric.

Domains

Tags

gpufabricswitchtopology

Sources

  • NVIDIA NVSwitch / HGX documentation

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