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Scale-up

Tightly coupling GPUs into one coherent high-bandwidth domain (NVLink class) that acts like a single large accelerator.

Current numbers

HGX 8; NVL72 72; Rubin Ultra NVL576 576/8 racks; Kyber NVL144 144/rack, NVL1152 1,152/8 racksscale-up (NVLink) domain size: HGX node, NVL72 rack, announced Rubin Ultra Kyberas of 2026 · register ↗
~18× GB200 / ~9× GB300NVLink 5 per-GPU scale-up (~900 GB/s per direction) against one per-GPU scale-out NIC — ~18× on GB200/CX-7/400G, ~9× on GB300/CX-8/800G; keep collectives in scale-upas of 2026 · register ↗
512 XPUssingle-hop all-to-all scale-up domain on one Broadcom Tomahawk 6 (102.4 Tbps, SUE/ESUN)as of 2026 · register ↗

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