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NVLink: History, Applications & Products
NVLink is a wire-based serial, multi-lane, near-range, communications link developed by Nvidia. Unlike PCI Express, a device can consist of multiple NVLinks, and devices can use mesh networking to communicate instead of a central hub/switch. The protocol was first announced in March 2014 and uses a proprietary high-speed signaling interconnect (NVHS).
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NVLink topic overview
The analysis highlights History, Applications and Products as prominent areas in the source structure around NVLink.
Related topics
25
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
32
Extracted relationships
102
Concept neighborhoods
7
Bridge connections
32
What this topic covers Research coverage
Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.
History · 8 topics
Overview · 5 topics
Support by other manufacturers · 4 topics
Performance · 3 topics
Principle · 3 topics
Service software and programming · 1 topics
Use with plug-in boards · 1 topics
Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
Developer
Nvidia
Manufacturer
Nvidia · ARM · Amazon Web Services · SiFive
Predecessor
Scalable Link Interface (SLI)
Type
Multi-GPU and CPU technology
Explore all related topics Closing gaps
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.
Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
How NVLink connects Entity context
Entity context groups extracted connections by relationship type. Counts show recurrence in the analyzed source; the examples are research signals, not claims about importance.
The extracted context around NVLink shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, NVLink → According, April, At GTC2017, CPU, CPUs, DGX-1, DGX-Station, Each CPU, Each NVLink, GB/s, GB/sec, GP100 GPU, GPU, GPUs, I/O, Nvidia, Nvidia Tesla P100, Nvidia's, NVLinks, On Another extracted example is NVLink → As, For, GA102, GB/s, GeForce RTX, GeForce RTX NVLink-Bridge, GPU, GT/s, NVLink HB, PCB, Quadro GP100, Quadro GV100, Quadro RTX, Reported, Scalable Link Interface, SLI, The, Ti, TU102, TU104. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
NVLink
Top relations
related to history· 29
NVLink → According, April, At GTC2017, CPU, CPUs, DGX-1, DGX-Station, Each CPU, Each NVLink, GB/s, GB/sec, GP100 GPU, GPU, GPUs, I/O, Nvidia, Nvidia Tesla P100, Nvidia's, NVLinks, On
NVLink → APIs, Configure SLI, CUDA, For, Further, Grid, Linux, NCCL, Nvidia Collective Communications Library, Nvidia Control, Nvidia Management Library API, NVML-API, On, PhysX, Quadro, Settings, Surround, Tesla, The, Windows
related to Principle· 15
NVLink → Ampere-based A100 GPU, Announced May, CPUs, Each V100 GPU, For NVLink, GB/s, Gbit/s, GPU, GPUs, March, Nvidia, Starting, The Hopper GPU, Thus, With
related to Support by other manufacturers· 7
NVLink → Amazon Web Services, ARM, In, NVLink Fusion, SiFive, Subsequently, Trainium4
Manufacturer· 4
NVLink → Amazon Web Services, ARM, Nvidia, SiFive
Developer· 1
NVLink → Nvidia
Predecessor· 1
NVLink → Scalable Link Interface (SLI)
Type· 1
NVLink → Multi-GPU and CPU technology
is a· 1
NVLink → wire-based serial
Important terminology
Frequent words and multi-word phrases across the lead, headings, infobox and body. Useful for terminology coverage.
Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.
Relationships are represented as Subject → Predicate → Object triples. Confidence describes extraction strength, not the real-world importance of a relationship; lower-confidence rows may be contextual rather than explicit.
TTTA extracted 102 structured relationships around NVLink. Examples in this analysis include NVLink → Developer → Nvidia and NVLink → Manufacturer → ARM. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
Subject
Predicate
Object
Confidence
Src
NVLink
Developer
Nvidia
1.00
infobox
NVLink
Manufacturer
Nvidia
1.00
infobox
NVLink
Manufacturer
ARM
1.00
infobox
NVLink
Manufacturer
Amazon Web Services
1.00
infobox
NVLink
Manufacturer
SiFive
1.00
infobox
NVLink
Predecessor
Scalable Link Interface (SLI)
1.00
infobox
NVLink
Type
Multi-GPU and CPU technology
1.00
infobox
NVLink
is a
wire-based serial
0.90
text
NVLink
related to history
On
0.60
section
NVLink
related to history
April
0.60
section
NVLink
related to history
Nvidia
0.60
section
NVLink
related to history
Pascal-microarchitecture-based GP100 GPU
0.60
section
No triples extracted yet.
Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
Concept neighborhoods group terms that sit near one another in the extracted graph. They are useful for discovering adjacent language and context, but proximity does not by itself imply a factual relationship.
The concept neighborhoods around NVLink bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Data, Gpu and Gb. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
NVLink
Data
Gpu
Gb
One
Products
P100
Performance
Links
Based
Control
Differential
Per
nvlink
Data
Gpu
Gb
One
Products
P100
Performance
Links
Based
Control
Differential
Per
nvidia
Sli
Nvlink
Use
Performance
Announced
Architecture
Gpus
Control
Cpus
Gpu
Single
Type
scalable link interface
Interconnect
Interface
Link
Sli
Data
Gb
Nvlink
Rate
Links
Higher
Nvidia
Based
use with plug-in boards
Central
Switch
Type
Control
Sli
Nvidia
Performance
Gpus
Mesh
Gpu
Link
Architecture
performance
Single
Two
Based
Cpus
Data
Gb
Type
Design
One
Use
Links
Boards
mesh networking
Switch
Gpus
Single
Use
Nvlink
Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
Semantic bridges connect parts of the graph that would otherwise be more separate. A bridge is a structural signal in this analysis, not a claim that the two topic areas are equivalent.
For NVLink, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects NVLink with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.
NVLink
Nodes33
Edges32
Triples102
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.060606
Components1
Source & methodology
TTTA analyzes the structure around NVLink to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Applications & Products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
