>With Blackwell, Nvidia is doubling the bandwidth of each switch, from 900 GB/sec to 1.8 TB/sec. The company’s Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol (SHARP) technology that “brings even more compute into the system that actually lives in the switch. This lets us do a couple of things. It lets us do a little bit of offload from the GPU to help accelerate performance and also helps calm network traffic a little bit on the NVLink fabric. These are innovations we continue to drive at the platform level.”
Can already hear complaints about the “closed, proprietary” nature of Nvidia’s networking solutions, locking other vendors out. No comms background here but sounds like real value is being layered in. It’s always a wonder if companies will be rewarded for creativity or blasted for not supporting industry standards. I’ve always been of the mind standards can never keep up.
Release the hounds.
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