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I am sure you know this building or some of you may have visited this building. This is Petronas Tower in Kuala Lumpur. Why I am talking about this? I am talking about this because this sky bridge here. Let us consider a situation where if the sky bridge does not exist. Let us say you are a person at some top floor here into this particular building and you You want to go and meet somebody here. What do you have to do? You have to come down, cross this corridor, then come back here and then go and meet this particular person. But what if we have a direct communication channel like this sky bridge here? So this sky bridge allows you to move from one tower to another without going further down and then coming back up again. is the main advantage of this skybridge. There's a physical connection between these two towers. Why I'm talking about this when I'm talking about GPUs? Consider this is a GPU, GPU 1. And in the same system, you have another GPU also. If they have to communicate…

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