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ConnectX - NVIDIA Tutorial

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ConnectX

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For all these AI supercomputers you are building, you would need networking, and that is where NVIDIA has solution for providing high-speed low-latency networking through InfiniBand and ConvertEthernets. This is ConnectX series. This came to NVIDIA's portfolio by acquisition of Metanox Technologies. Metanox was a well-known name in terms of InfiniBand software solutions and hardware solution. That was acquired by NVIDIA in 2022, I guess, and that's how NVIDIA was able to provide with all these InfiniBand SCAs and NICs. SCAs stand for Host Channel Adopter. It is high-performance interconnect adopter for InfiniBand, designed for ultra-low latency networking and high throughput, and it allows you to scale across AI, HPC, and enterprise data center workloads. It support advanced networking feature for GPU-accelerated system. In short, it is called RDMA. We will discuss about RDMA in the coming section. Primarily, it is used for AI training, HPC workload, data center where require fast…

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