FFN Splitting Accelerates on NVLink Racks
bookwormengr · x · 2026-07-14
This post discusses the concept of splitting Attention and FFN/MoE layers across different GPU servers in the latest rack-scale GPU systems.
The quote highlights an open-source implementation called FastAFD: an AFD runtime designed for GB200 NVL72 (72 Blackwell GPUs within a single NVLink domain). The author shares that it can boost decoding throughput per GPU by 1.35–1.45x. The post includes links to the code and a blog post, emphasizing this as a system-level optimization idea for next-gen GPU racks.
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