# Benchmarking NVIDIA Spectrum-X for AI Network Performance, Now Available from Supermicro

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**Created:** [February 22, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/benchmarking-nvidia-spectrum-x-for-ai-network-performance-now-available-from-supermicro/283718 "2024-02-22T17:54:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 5:54pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/benchmarking-nvidia-spectrum-x-for-ai-network-performance-now-available-from-supermicro/283718/1 "2024-02-22T17:54:06Z")

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Originally published at: [https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/benchmarking-nvidia-spectrum-x-for-ai-network-performance-now-available-from-supermicro/](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/benchmarking-nvidia-spectrum-x-for-ai-network-performance-now-available-from-supermicro/)  
   
NVIDIA Spectrum-X is swiftly gaining traction as the leading networking platform tailored for AI in hyperscale cloud infrastructures. Spectrum-X networking technologies help enterprise customers accelerate generative AI workloads. NVIDIA announced significant OEM adoption of the platform in a November 2023 press release, along with an update on the NVIDIA Israel-1 Supercomputer powered by Spectrum-X.&nbsp; NVIDIA…

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**Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/benchmarking-nvidia-spectrum-x-for-ai-network-performance-now-available-from-supermicro/283718/2 "2024-02-22T18:02:37Z")

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**Post date:** [March 21, 2024, 8:10am UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/benchmarking-nvidia-spectrum-x-for-ai-network-performance-now-available-from-supermicro/283718/3 "2024-03-21T08:10:52Z")

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how to understand the noise in Figure 3 ?

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**Post date:** [April 2, 2024, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/benchmarking-nvidia-spectrum-x-for-ai-network-performance-now-available-from-supermicro/283718/4 "2024-04-02T21:23:36Z")

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Thanks for reading and posting! In practice, noise on an AI could be generated from a wide variety of data center workloads, including AI and non-AI workloads. In this test scenario from figure 3, the noise was created by RDMA-based primitives communicating simultaneously to the LLM training workload on the Spectrum-X infrastructure.
