Eight GPUs per NVLink domain shaped every serving layout of the Hopper era. Seventy-two moves the boundary that expert parallelism and KV transfer used to cross over the NIC. The answer prices what moves inside the rack, what still does not fit, and the failure mode that comes with it.
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Eight GPUs per NVLink domain shaped every serving layout of the Hopper era. Seventy-two moves the boundary that expert parallelism and KV transfer used to cross over the NIC. The answer prices what moves inside the rack, what still does not fit, and the failure mode that comes with it.
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