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title: "NVLink"
description: "1 posts about NVLink, summarised, each linking to the original."
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# NVLink
> 1 posts about NVLink, summarised, each linking to the original.

## Articles

### [How NVIDIA NVLink 6 Delivers Multi-Layer Resiliency for AI Factories](https://yomu.fyi/post/how-nvidia-nvlink-6-delivers-multi-layer-resiliency-for-ai-factories.md)
- Company: [NVIDIA](https://yomu.fyi/company/nvidia-developer-blog.md)
- Author: Elizabeth Goodman
- Published: Sep 15, 2026
- Type: Explainer

NVIDIA NVLink 6 is presented as a scale-up networking fabric for large AI factories, where dropped packets, link degradation, and node interruptions can reduce training goodput or inference capacity. It connects 72 Rubin GPUs in the Vera Rubin NVL72 into a single scale-up domain and uses a multi-layer resiliency stack spanning physical, link, application, software, and system layers. Physical Layer techniques include lightweight FEC, Physical Layer Retry (PLR), UPHY recovery, and hardware replay buffers, while credit-based flow control (CBFC) prevents injection when the next hop lacks buffer capacity. Redundant switch trays and management paths, local fault containment, NMX high availability, checkpointing, topology-aware recovery, and targeted switch maintenance are described as mechanisms for containing failures and preserving workloads; the post concludes that this integrated design targets continuous operation and maximum cluster productivity.