What Is a SuperNIC?
NVIDIA News, Monday, November 20,2023
A SuperNIC is a type of network accelerator for AI cloud data centers that delivers robust and seamless connectivity between GPU servers.
Generative AI is the latest turn in the fast-changing digital landscape. One of the groundbreaking innovations making it possible is a relatively new term: SuperNIC.
What Is a SuperNIC?
SuperNIC is a new class of network accelerators designed to supercharge hyperscale AI workloads in Ethernet-based clouds. It provides lightning-fast network connectivity for GPU-to-GPU communication, achieving speeds reaching 400Gb/s using remote direct memory access (RDMA) over converged Ethernet (RoCE) technology.