NVIDIA Says Spectrum-X Adaptive Routing Can Boost Storage Fabric Bandwidth
Blocks&Files, Tuesday, February 4th, 2025
Nvidia says its InfiniBand technology-infused Spectrum-X Ethernet networking can increase storage fabric network read bandwidth by almost 50 percent.
Spectrum-X is a combination of the Spectrum-4 ASIC-based Ethernet switch offering that accompanies its InfiniBand products. It supports RoCE v2 for remote direct memory access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet and the BlueField-3 SuperNIC. Nvidia's InfiniBand products feature adaptive routing to send data packets across the least congested network routes when the initially selected routes are busy or a link outage occurs.