NVIDIA and Oracle plan multi-gigawatt Vera Rubin expansion on OCI
NVIDIA and Oracle announced plans to scale OCI Superclusters with Vera Rubin NVL72 systems to multi-gigawatt capacity. Vera Rubin NVL72 and NVIDIA Vera CPUs are now generally available on OCI, with an initial 150,000 Vera CPUs deploying across Oracle regions in Q4 2026.
- Vera Rubin claims up to 30x higher inference throughput per watt and 4x training gain over Blackwell
- OCI will deploy 150,000 Vera CPUs, each with 88 Olympus cores and 176 threads
- Acceleron networking uses 102.4 Tb/s Spectrum-X switches and scales past 131,000 GPUs
- OpenAI trained and served GPT-6 Astra on an OCI cluster with over 100,000 Blackwell GPUs
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