Unlock Exascale Performance on NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 with Slurm Topology-Aware Job Scheduling

The NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 is a rack-scale GPU supercomputer leveraging Blackwell architecture with NVLink switches for high-density computing , and topology-aware block scheduling in Slurm can align large-scale AI training workloads with the NVLink rack architecture . Without topology-aware scheduling, performance can regress by over 10% when nodes are split across different systems, making Slurm's topology-aware block scheduling essential for maximizing platform performance .

Source: NVIDIA Developer | 2026-05-21