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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

8 - 72 - 576scale-up (NVLink) domain size: HGX node, NVL72 rack, announced Rubin Ultra Kyberas of 2026 · register ↗
432 GBMI455X HBM4 @ ~19.6 TB/s per GPU; Helios = 72 GPUs, ~31 TB HBM4, ~260 TB/s scale-up, 2.9 EFLOPS FP4as 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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