Nvidia has announced a new family of switches, the X800 series.
The company said that the X800 switches are the world’s first networking platforms capable of end-to-end 800Gbps throughput.
The Quantum-X800 platform includes the Nvidia Quantum Q3400 switch and the Nvidia ConnectX-8 SuperNIC, which together achieve that throughput.
This, the company claims, represents a 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 utilizes the Spectrum SN5600 800Gbps switch and the Nvidia BlueField-3 SuperNIC. It is designed for multi-tenant generative AI clouds and large enterprises.
“Nvidia Networking is central to the scalability of our AI supercomputing infrastructure,” said Gilad Shainer, SVP of Networking at the company.
“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, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and Coreweave.
“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, VP 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.”
