NVIDIA Claims Near 50% Boost In AI Storage Speed
Networkworld, Wednesday, February 5th, 2025
Vendor's speed claim is achieved through Nvidia Spectrum-X processing of large language models
Nvidia is touting a near 50% improvement in storage read bandwidth thanks to intelligence in its Spectrum-X Ethernet networking equipment, according to the vendor's technical blog post.
Spectrum-X is a combination of the company's Spectrum-4 Ethernet switch and BlueField-3 SuperNIC smart networking card, which supports RoCE v2 for remote direct memory access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet.