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ONE REQUEST / REPEATING COMPUTE & EXCHANGE

How the hardware works together

See the roles of the CPU, GPUs, memory, and network in an AI request.

Preparing the compute tray…
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Input data

Receive → Prepare → Calculate ↔ Exchange → Return. Example: tensor-parallel inference; exchanges repeat across layers.

FOLLOW AN AI REQUESTCompute and exchange can repeat

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