GTC—NVIDIA today announced a new
wave of networking switches, the X800 series, designed for
massive-scale AI.
The world’s first networking platforms capable of end-to-end
800Gb/s throughput, NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand
and NVIDIA Spectrum™-X800 Ethernet push the boundaries of
networking performance for computing and AI workloads. They feature
software that further accelerates AI, cloud, data processing and
HPC applications in every type of data center, including those that
incorporate the newly released NVIDIA Blackwell architecture-based
product lineup.
“NVIDIA Networking is central to the scalability of our AI
supercomputing infrastructure,” said Gilad Shainer, senior vice
president of Networking at NVIDIA. “NVIDIA X800 switches are
end-to-end networking platforms that enable us to achieve
trillion-parameter-scale generative AI essential for new AI
infrastructures.”
Initial adopters of Quantum InfiniBand and Spectrum-X Ethernet
include Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
“AI is a powerful tool to turn data into knowledge. Behind this
transformation is the evolution of data centers into
high-performance AI engines with increased demands for networking
infrastructure,” said Nidhi Chappell, Vice President of AI
Infrastructure at Microsoft Azure. “With new integrations of NVIDIA
networking solutions, Microsoft Azure will continue to build the
infrastructure that pushes the boundaries of cloud AI.”
Coreweave is also among early adopters.
Next Standard for Extreme PerformanceThe
Quantum-X800 platform sets a new standard in delivering the highest
performance for AI-dedicated Infrastructure. It includes the NVIDIA
Quantum Q3400 switch and the NVIDIA ConnectX®-8 SuperNIC™, which
together achieve an industry-leading end-to-end throughput of
800Gb/s. This is 5x higher bandwidth capacity and a 9x increase of
14.4Tflops of In-Network Computing with NVIDIA’s Scalable
Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol (SHARPv4) compared
to the previous generation.
The Spectrum-X800 platform delivers optimized networking
performance for AI cloud and enterprise infrastructure. Utilizing
the Spectrum SN5600 800Gb/s switch and the NVIDIA BlueField®-3
SuperNIC, the Spectrum-X800 platform provides advanced feature sets
crucial for multi-tenant generative AI clouds and large
enterprises.
Spectrum-X800 optimizes network performance, facilitating faster
processing, analysis, and execution of AI workloads, thereby
expediting the development, deployment, and time to market of AI
solutions. Designed specifically for multi-tenant environments,
Spectrum-X800 ensures performance isolation for each tenant's AI
workloads to maintain optimal and consistent performance levels,
enhancing customer satisfaction and service quality.
NVIDIA Software SupportNVIDIA provides a
comprehensive suite of network acceleration libraries, software
development kits and management software to optimize performance
for trillion-parameter AI models.
This includes NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL),
which extends GPU parallel computing tasks to the Quantum-X800
network fabric, taking advantage of its powerful In-Network
Computing capabilities with SHARPv4 supporting FP8, supercharging
performance for large model training and generative AI.
NVIDIA’s full-stack software approach provides advanced
programmability, making data center networks more flexible,
reliable and responsive, ultimately increasing overall operational
efficiency and supporting the needs of modern applications and
services.
Ecosystem MomentumNext year, Quantum-X800 and
Spectrum-X800 will be available from a wide range of leading
infrastructure and system vendors around the world, including
Aivres, DDN, Dell Technologies, Eviden, Hitachi Vantara, Hewlett
Packard Enterprise, Lenovo, Supermicro and VAST Data.
About NVIDIASince its founding in 1993, NVIDIA
(NASDAQ: NVDA) has been a pioneer in accelerated computing. The
company’s invention of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC
gaming market, redefined computer graphics, ignited the era of
modern AI and is fueling industrial digitalization across markets.
NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing infrastructure company with
data-center-scale offerings that are reshaping industry. More
information at https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
For further information, contact:Alex
ShapiroPublic RelationsNVIDIA
Corporation+1-415-608-5044ashapiro@nvidia.com
Certain statements in this press release including, but not
limited to, statements as to: the benefits, impact, performance,
features, and availability of NVIDIA’s products and technologies,
including NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand, NVIDIA Spectrum-X800
Ethernet, NVIDIA Blackwell architecture-based products, NVIDIA
Quantum Q3400 switch, NVIDIA ConnectX-8 SuperNIC, NVIDIA’s Scalable
Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol (SHARPv4), Spectrum
SN5600 800Gb/s switch, NVIDIA BlueField-3 SuperNIC, and NVIDIA
Collective Communications Library (NCCL); NVIDIA X800 switches
enabling us to achieve trillion-parameter-scale generative AI
essential for new AI infrastructures; NVIDIA’s full-stack software
approach making data center networks more flexible, reliable and
responsive, ultimately increasing overall operational efficiency
and supporting the needs of modern applications and services; and
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technologies, and the benefits thereof are forward-looking
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