NVIDIA and Oracle: Vera Rubin NVL72 and Vera CPUs now on OCI
The two companies announced multi-gigawatt growth for OCI Superclusters, with the new systems open to customers.
Two big companies set up very powerful machines in the cloud to run AI. It is aimed at businesses, but it helps the apps you use get faster.
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- NVIDIA and Oracle said on October 27 that Vera Rubin NVL72 and Vera CPUs are generally available on OCI.
- Each NVL72 rack links 72 GPUs with NVLink.
- Plans also include an HGX Rubin NVL8 server with eight Rubin GPUs, two Intel Xeon 6 CPUs and 4TB of memory.
- OpenAI reportedly trained GPT-6 Astra on an OCI Supercluster in Abilene, Texas, using over 100,000 Blackwell GPUs.
- Vera CPUs are pitched at tasks such as running tools and code.
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