NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand Platform
Highest-performance, end-to-end 800 Gb/s networking designed for massive-scale AI.
Introduction
World’s First End-to-End 800 Gb/s Networking
The NVIDIA Quantum-X800 platform is the next generation of NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand, purpose-built for trillion-parameter-scale AI models. It includes the NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand switch, NVIDIA ConnectX®-8 SuperNIC, ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, and NVIDIA® LinkX® cables and transceivers.
The new platform supports advanced hardware-based, In-Network Computing with Scalable Hierarchical Aggregate Reduction Protocol (SHARP)™ v4, adaptive routing, and telemetry-based congestion control, enabling a new frontier of AI innovation.
New Co-Packaged Silicon Photonic Networking Switches to Scale to Millions of GPUs, Multi-Site AI Factories
Key Benefits
Built to Accelerate Massive-Scale AI
Platform Components
What’s Inside the Platform
NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand Switches
The NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand switch provides 144 ports of 800 Gb/s connectivity per port. It includes hardware-based In-Network Computing with SHARP v4, adaptive routing, telemetry-based congestion control, performance isolation capabilities, and a dedicated port supporting the Unified Fabric Manager (UFM). NVIDIA Quantum-X800 switches also add advanced power-efficiency features, including low-power link state and power profiling.
The NVIDIA Quantum-X800 switch provides increased performance and power efficiency to significantly reduce scientific computing, AI workload completion time, and energy costs.
Quantum-X silicon photonics switches further reduce total power consumption and latency by minimizing the distance and number of connections between optics and electronics.
NVIDIA ConnectX SuperNICs
NVIDIA ConnectX SuperNICs deliver up to 1.6 terabits per second (Tb/s) of connectivity per GPU with ultra-low latency and support the latest in advanced in-network computing. Based on the ConnectX architecture, they provide accelerated MPI hardware engines, quality of service, adaptive routing, congestion control, and more.
LinkX Cables and Transceivers
The NVIDIA Quantum-X800 platform connectivity options with the NVIDIA LinkX interconnect portfolio provide the maximum flexibility for building a preferred network topology, using connectorized transceivers with passive fiber cables and linear active copper cables (LACCs).
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