NVIDIA NVLink: The Scale-Up Network for AI Factories | NVIDIA Technical Blog

This post introduces the Sixth Generation NVIDIA NVLink as a critical component for AI factories, highlighting its role as a purpose-built, high-bandwidth, low-latency scale-up networking fabric. It details how NVLink's extreme co-design approach, integrating hardware and software, enables features like disaggregated inference and expert parallelism, leading to significant performance gains in large-scale MoE and LLM workloads. The post also emphasizes NVLink's contribution to factory resiliency, operational features, and its importance in driving sustained ROI by optimizing delivered tokens per watt, dollar, and factory footprint.