Core concept

NVLink 4 (H100): 900 GB/s per GPU (18 links × 50 GB/s). NVLink 5 (Blackwell): 1.8 TB/s.

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How it works

Only NVIDIA. Doesn't cross host boundaries directly (though NVLink Switch systems can).

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Trade-offs + gotchas

Multi-GPU training + inference. Tensor + pipeline parallelism.