NVIDIA · Spectrum-X / Quantum / BlueField

NVIDIA AI Networking

Switching and adapters designed for AI traffic between GPUs and nodes.

In plain English

AI servers move enormous amounts of data between each other. Ordinary networking becomes the bottleneck, so clusters use these switches and adapters instead.

Who it is for

  • · Cluster builders
  • · Hosting providers
  • · HPC centres

Typical workloads

  • · Distributed training
  • · Multi-node inference
  • · GPUDirect storage

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Networking and Storage
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NVIDIA Spectrum-X SN5600 Ethernet Switch

The network switch that joins AI servers together. Standard office switches choke on AI traffic patterns; this one is designed for them.

Memory

Configurable

Deployment

Rack server

Production InferenceTraining

From £62,500

ex VAT

Available to order

Networking and Storage
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NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand Switch

The highest-performance fabric for training across many servers. It does some of the maths inside the network itself, which shortens training runs.

Memory

Configurable

Deployment

Datacentre

Production InferenceTraining

From £74,000

ex VAT

Allocation only

Networking and Storage
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NVIDIA ConnectX-8 SuperNIC

The card that lets one AI server talk to another at full speed. Without it, multi-server training spends its time waiting on the network.

Memory

Configurable

Deployment

Rack server

Production InferenceTraining

£4,250

ex VAT

Available to order

Networking and Storage
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NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU

A smart network card with its own processors. It handles security and storage traffic so the server's CPUs stay free for AI work.

Memory

Configurable

Deployment

Rack server

Production Inference

£3,650

ex VAT

Available to order