The data center is the new unit of computing, and networking plays an integral role in scaling application performance across it. Paired with NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand, HGX delivers world-class performance and efficiency, which ensures the full utilization of computing resources.
For AI cloud data centers that deploy Ethernet, HGX is best used with the NVIDIA Spectrum-X networking platform, which powers the highest AI performance over Ethernet. It features Spectrum-X switches and BlueField-3 DPUs for optimal resource utilization and performance isolation, delivering consistent, predictable outcomes for thousands of simultaneous AI jobs at every scale. Spectrum-X enables advanced cloud multi-tenancy and zero-trust security. As a reference design, NVIDIA has designed Israel-1, a hyperscale generative AI supercomputer built with Dell PowerEdge XE9680 servers based on the NVIDIA HGX 8-GPU platform, BlueField-3 DPUs, and Spectrum-4 switches.