Traditional methods for performing data reductions are very costly in terms of latency and CPU cycles. The NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand switch with NVIDIA SHARP technology addresses complex operations such as data reduction in a simplified, efficient way. By reducing data within the switch network, NVIDIA Quantum switches perform the reduction in a fraction of the time of traditional methods.
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Maximizing Performance for Distributed Machine Learning and Deep Learning with SHARP
The NVIDIA Mellanox Scalable Hierarchical Aggregation and Reduction Protocol (SHARP) takes advantage of the in-network computing capabilities in the NVIDIA Mellanox Quantum switch, dramatically improving the performance of distributed machine learning workloads.
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