Achieving Peak System and Workload Efficiency on NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 with Slurm Block Scheduling
NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 introduces a fundamentally new way to build GPU clusters by extending NVIDIA NVLink coherence across an entire rack. This design enables...NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 introduces a fundamentally new way to build GPU clusters by extending NVIDIA NVLink coherence across an entire rack. This design enables exascale performance, but it also changes the assumptions that many scheduling systems were built on. As a result, “rack-scale locality” becomes a hard constraint. When workloads cross domain boundaries, performance drops sharply…