As AI demand surges, individual datacentres are reaching the limits of power and capacity within a single facility. To expand, datacentres must scale beyond any one building, which is limited by off-the-shelf Ethernet networking infrastructure with high latency and jitter and unpredictable performance.
Spectrum-XGS Ethernet adds to the NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet platform that removes these boundaries by introducing scale-across infrastructure. It serves as a third pillar of AI computing beyond scale-up and scale-out, designed for extending the extreme performance and scale of Spectrum-X Ethernet to interconnect multiple, distributed data centers to form AI super-factories capable of giga-scale intelligence.
“The AI industrial revolution is here, and giant-scale AI factories are the essential infrastructure,” says CEO Jensen Huang, “with NVIDIA Spectrum-XGS Ethernet, we add scale-across to scale-up and scale-out capabilities to link datacentres across cities, nations and continents into vast, giga-scale AI super-factories.”
Spectrum-XGS Ethernet is integrated into the Spectrum-X platform, featuring algorithms that adapt the network to the distance between datacentre facilities.
With advanced, auto-adjusted distance congestion control, precision latency management and end-to-end telemetry, Spectrum-XGS Ethernet nearly doubles the performance of the NVIDIA Collective Communications Library, accelerating multi-GPU and multi-node communication to deliver predictable performance across geographically distributed AI clusters. As a result, multiple datacentres can operate as a single AI super-factory, fully optimized for long-distance connectivity.
Hyperscale pioneers embracing the new infrastructure include CoreWeave, which will be among the first to connect its data centers with Spectrum-XGS Ethernet.
The Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform provides 1.6x greater bandwidth density than off-the-shelf Ethernet for multi-tenant, hyperscale AI factories — including the world’s largest AI supercomputer.
It comprises NVIDIA Spectrum-X switches and NVIDIA ConnectX-8 SuperNICs, delivering scalability, low latency and performance for enterprises building the future of AI.
The announcement follows several networking innovation announcements from NVIDIA, including NVIDIA Spectrum-X and NVIDIA Quantum-X silicon photonics networking switches, which enable AI factories to connect millions of GPUs across sites while reducing energy consumption and operational costs
