The NVIDIA Mellanox CS7500 series of smart director switches provides up to 648 enhanced data rate (EDR) 100Gb/s ports—enabling a high-performing fabric solution for HPC, AI, cloud, and hyperscale data center infrastructures in an up to 28U form factor. Its smart design provides unprecedented levels of performance and simplifies the building of clusters that can scale out to thousands of nodes. Moreover, the leaf blades, spine blades, management modules, power supply units (PSUs), and fan units are all hot-swappable, eliminating downtime.