Scorpio Smart Fabric Switches

Fabric switches for the AI Era – Now shipping in pre-production

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Purpose-built portfolio for deploying cloud-scale AI platforms at unprecedented pace and scale

  • Improve energy efficiency with maximum performance per watt fabric solutions
  • Increase GPU utilization with predictable, secure and high-performance data flows
  • Maximize server uptime with COSMOS delivering unprecedented data center observability
  • Reduce time to market with flexible software-defined architecture and seamless interoperability

Why Use Scorpio Smart Fabric Switches?

Maximize Utilization

  • High Performance Data Ingest

    With PCIe 6 support and AI-optimized architecture, Scorpio P-Series delivers maximum predictable performance to increase GPU utilization

  • High Performance Scale-up

    With a software-defined architecture, Scorpio X-Series delivers protocol and performance optimization for increased data transfer efficiency

  • Performance Monitoring

    Real-time telemetry data provides valuable insights to optimize performance and improve utilization

Ease-of-Use

  • Purpose-built Board Design

    Small package size with integrated power supply decoupling to enable easier routing

  • Future-proof

    Mix current and next-generation devices on the same platform

  • Seamless Software Integration

    Common COSMOS APIs enable Scorpio to integrate seamlessly into existing infrastructure management solutions that use the widely-deployed Aries Retimers

Increase Uptime

  • Fleet Management

    COSMOS software with deep telemetry and diagnostics for link and device health monitoring enables unprecedented data center observability

  • Quick Debug

    Built-in protocol analyzer with link state history and timestamps, full non-destructive eye scan for RX Lane margining, self-test features to minimize link downtime and accelerate fault isolation

  • Rigorous Interop Testing

    System testing with diverse ecosystem of PCIe hosts and endpoints in our Cloud-Scale Interop Lab minimizes interoperation risk for improved reliability

P-Series and X-Series

Application-specific products built from the ground up for AI servers and AI clusters

Architected for mixed traffic AI head node connectivity (GPU-to-CPU/NIC/SSD)

  • Industry’s first PCIe 6 fabric switch
  • Predictable and high-performance GPU-to-CPU/NIC/SSD data flows
  • High bandwidth and low latency peer-to-peer for GPU data ingest
  • Interoperability with diverse ecosystem of PCIe hosts and endpoints

Architected to deliver highest back-end bandwidth for AI scale-up (GPU-to-GPU)

  • Software-defined architecture enables flexibility for diverse AI accelerators
  • Platform-specific customization for homogeneous GPU scale-up fabrics
  • Protocol and performance optimization for increased data transfer efficiency
  • Expanded reliability and telemetry features for maximum uptime

Use Cases

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Ordering Information

SeriesPart #PCIeLanesPackage Size [mm]Status
P-SeriesPF60641L6.x6429×29Sampling
P-SeriesPF50641L5.x6429×29Sampling
P-SeriesX6064-1M04Xami MCIO-MCIO Evaluation KitSampling
X-SeriesCustomer SpecificContact Us

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