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Cool. Yeah that's an interesting point about the DGX-100 system. I'd forgotten about those. :)

Looking at the data sheet, it seems to have a maximum of 8 single port Nvidia ConnectX-7 adapters:

https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-dgx-systems/ai-enterprise...

Bearing in mind the unit conversions (Tb/s vs GB/s), 3.2Tb/s matches up with the 400GB/s bandwidth of the M2 Max's memory bandwidth.

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Their newly announced Grace and/or Grace Hopper "Superchip" does seem interesting. Haven't (yet) seen now it's supposed to connect to other infrastructure though.

Their whitepaper talks about "OEM-defined I/O" but doesn't (in my skimming thus far) indicate what the upper bounds are.

May look further later on, but we're pretty far into the weeds already. ;)

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Further along in the whitepaper, it says the "NVLink Switch System" in them communicates with the network at 900GB/s "total bandwidth". If that's indeed the case, they yep they're beating the M2 Max's memory bandwidth (400GB/s).

That even beats the M2 Ultra's memory bandwidth (800GB/s):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_silicon#Apple_M2_Ultra



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