NVIDIA announces NVSwitch and DGX-2
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Announced NVSwitch and DGX-2 — connects 16 V100 GPUs simultaneously at 2.4 TB/s, with 5 times the bandwidth of a PCIe switch
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The layer that made the inside of a node one big GPU. The physical precondition for tensor parallelism becoming practical
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