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It looks like it uses a separate daughterboard that houses the GPUs + NVLink, connected to the main motherboard using quad Infiniband EDR (400Gbps) + RDMA. http://images.anandtech.com/doci/10225/SSP_85.JPG


The diagram is confusing, but the GPUs are connected to the NVLink matrix which is connected to the motherboard via the PLX PCIe switches. The quad IB/dual 10GbE are separate IO attached to the motherboard.

https://devblogs.nvidia.com/parallelforall/inside-pascal/


That would make much more sense. Thanks! The PCI bandwidth must be fairly limited. 4x 100G Infiniband is 64x PCIe lanes, out of 80x lanes available.




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