xAI to double Colossus compute capacity, reveals cluster uses Nvidia Spectrum-X ethernet – DatacenterDynamics

xAI to double Colossus compute capacity, reveals cluster uses Nvidia Spectrum-X ethernet  DatacenterDynamics Article Source https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/xai-to-double-colossus-compute-capacity-reveals-cluster-uses-nvidia-spectrum-x-ethernet/

Nvidia’s Spectrum-X Ethernet to enable the world’s largest AI supercomputer — 200,000 Hopper GPUs

Nvidia’s Spectrum-X Ethernet to enable the world’s largest AI supercomputer — 200,000 Hopper GPUs

One of the challenges with building high-end AI data centers is connecting servers and making tens of thousands of GPUs work in concert and without problems, making network interconnections as important as GPUs. To build xAI’s Colossus… Article Source https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidias-spectrum-x-ethernet-to-enable-the-worlds-largest-ai-supercomputer-200-000-hopper-gpus