PCIe switches are devices that expand the number of PCIe lanes than what is available from a host device so that more devices can be supported by the host. For example, a PCIe switch can double the PCIe lanes of a x16 CPU to support more GPUs than what the CPU alone can handle. Some...
What is the difference between SATA, PCIe, and NVMe? PCIe is a standard connection for internal devices in a computer and has been around for several years and is seeing increasing adoption due to its speed. NVMe (non-volatile memory express) is an interface protocol that has been constructed...
PCI-E, or Peripheral Component Interconnect Express and generally formatted as PCIe, is a type of communication system also called a bus. The PCI-E bus, specifically, is a high-speed computer bus standard. It was created as a follow-up to the original PCI and PCI-X standards. As they c...
using Ethernet, Fiber Channel, RoCE or InfiniBand. NVMe-oF uses an alternate data transport protocol (over fabrics) as a transport mapping, instead of the PCIe bus used by NVMe. Fabrics are built on the
PCI Express® 4.0 also known as PCIe 4.0 or PCIe Gen 4 is the fourth generation of Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCI express) expansion bus specifications, which are developed, published, and maintained by the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG). It is an open standard. In thi...
NVIDIA had the idea that it could take two of these standardized boards and put them together with this larger switch fabric. The impact, though, was that now the NVIDIA GPU-to-GPU communication would occur on NVIDIA NVSwitch silicon and PCIe would have a standardized topology. HGX was born...
IRQ is an interrupt request sent from the hardware level to the CPU. While receiving the interrupt, the CPU will switch to interrupt context - Interrupt Service Routine (ISR) in order to handle the coming interrupt.The affinity of an interrupt request (IRQ Affinity) is defined as the set ...
To help deliver a high-bandwidth, low-latency user experience, theNVMe protocolaccessesflash storagevia a PCI Express (PCIe) bus, which supports tens of thousands of parallel command queues and thus is much faster than hard disks and traditional all-flash architectures, which are limited to a ...
A major distinction between NVMe over Fibre Channel and NVMe is the mechanism for transporting commands. NVMe maps requests and responses to shared memory in the host computer using the PCIe interface protocol. NVMe over FC uses a message-based model to send requests and responses between a host...
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