Deep Dive: TPU and GPU Cluster Communication
thehiphopswami · x · 2026-07-15
This is an in-depth blog post about TPU/GPU clusters and collective communication, focusing on the underlying mechanics of scaling training and inference.
Topics covered include:
- TPU cluster topology: superpods, slices, DCN, PCIe, ICI
- How All-Gather, Reduce-Scatter, and All-Reduce work
- The role of All-to-All in MoE token dispatch
- NVIDIA GPU cluster topologies and related communication paths
The author's goal is to demystify these seemingly abstract communication primitives, helping readers truly grasp the foundations of scaling MoE and dense transformer models.
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