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`Nvidia discovers DMA`

• llm_nerd 3y ago
  This device has a fully switched fabric allowing comms between any of the 256 "superchip" clusters at 900GB/s. That is dramatically faster than a direct host to GPU 32-lane PCI-E connection (which is crazy), and obviously dwarfs any existing machine to machine connectivity. The actual usability of shared memory across the array is improved significantly. I mean...nvidia has obviously been using DMA for decades. This isn't just DMA.
  • zeusk 3y ago
    Parent discovers the difference between DMA and RDMA
  • tacticus 3y ago
    No i mean the fact that Nvidia is now claiming that the memory the CPU has access to can be counted as memory for the GPU. the fabric is neat. the "We have 500 GB of ram per gpu" claim is questionable.
• smoldesu 3y ago
  They do make PCI hardware, don't they?
• jabl 3y ago
  Nvlink provides cache coherent load-store access, so the point is actually that it's not DMA.