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What does nvidia-fabricmanager do, and what exactly breaks when it is not running?

Fabric Manager helps make an NVSwitch system ready. Learn the platform-specific roles, failure symptoms and checks that prove the communication path works.

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Fabric Manager helps make an NVSwitch system ready. Learn the platform-specific roles, failure symptoms and checks that prove the communication path works.

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🖧 Hardware & Cluster Build-Out

Cluster Bring-Up: Firmware, Drivers and the StackBring-up validates the dependencies between firmware, drivers, networking and the runtime. Checking each layer makes faults easier to locate.

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NVLink and Fabric FaultsGPU link faults can slow collectives or stop distributed progress. Correlate application timing with link counters and controlled path tests to locate the problem.

🖧 Hardware & Cluster Build-Out

NVLink Domains and the NVL72 RackAn NVLink domain connects a group of GPUs through a scale-up fabric. Its boundary helps determine where to place communication-heavy parallel groups.

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NVLink, NVSwitch and PCIeNVLink, NVSwitch and PCIe provide different GPU communication paths. Learn how their topology and bandwidth affect the placement of parallel work.

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