IX2-0212

① SA Source

Context Before

InfiniBand/RoCEv2 Ethernet (outside of the NVL72 rack): Typically 400-800 Gbit/s per GPU uni-directional (50-100 GB/s). Note that all our testing for Nvidia was conducted on InfiniBand based clusters.

Evidence

For EP, all-to-all is done only at MoE layers

Context After

Because EP’s all-to-all communication bandwidth requirements scale with the number of participants, staying within the high-bandwidth NVLink domain before having to cross the slower IB/Eth fabric is better. With NVL72, EP across 72 GPUs is possible without ever leaving NVLink, whereas previous generations (with only 8-GPU NVLink domains) could only do EP across 8 GPUs at NVLink speed before hitting the slower IB/Eth networks.

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② Atomic Claim

EP 則只在 MoE layers 執行 all-to-all。

  • Epistemic Mode: ASSERTED
  • Mapping Status: COMPLETE

③ Semantic Frame

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  "attribute": "LAYER_COUNT",
  "context_nodes": [],
  "entity": {
    "id": "04_knowledge_base/Mixture of Experts",
    "label": "MoE"
  },
  "frame_type": "ATTRIBUTE",
  "qualifiers": {
    "condition_text": null,
    "numeric_mentions": [],
    "temporal_mentions": []
  },
  "value": {
    "numeric_mentions": [],
    "value_text": "EP 則只在 MoE layers 執行 all-to-all。"
  }
}

④ Canonical Entity Mapping

RoleSurface LabelCanonical Target
entityMoE04_knowledge_base/Mixture of Experts

⑤ Human Review

請在 Properties 逐項確認:

  • 原文 → Atomic Claim 是否忠實
  • Atomic Claim → Semantic Frame 是否忠實
  • Canonical Entity mapping 是否正確
  • Epistemic mode 是否保留原文語氣
  • 最後選擇 review_action

Review state

Markdown 內文不是正式 approval。只有 Apply bridge 寫入的 Decision Ledger event 才是正式決策。