Oracle makes NVIDIA Vera CPUs and Vera Rubin available on OCI
Oracle and NVIDIA have made Vera processors and Vera Rubin systems generally available on Oracle’s cloud. Customers can allocate processor and graphics resources separately for different parts of an AI task. The collaboration also includes planned expansion of larger clusters and a smaller Rubin configuration, which remain distinct from the services already available.
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Vera and Vera Rubin become generally available
Cloud-services company Oracle and chip designer NVIDIA announced general availability of Vera central processors and Vera Rubin NVL72 systems on October 27. They are offered through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle’s cloud platform, also known as OCI. The two product lines support different parts of AI workloads: graphics processors train and run models, while central processors execute tools, test code and retrieve information between model calls.[1], [2]
Separate resources serve the stages of an agent task
Customers can increase CPU and GPU resources independently using OCI Kubernetes Engine, Oracle’s service for managing containerised applications. Oracle says Vera combines single-thread performance with memory bandwidth to support concurrent tasks and reduce time spent waiting for data or tool results. Its Acceleron networking technology provides hardware-based isolation for workloads that execute untrusted, AI-generated code. These are the companies’ descriptions of the intended operating benefits.[1]
Larger clusters and an eight-GPU option remain planned
The collaboration includes plans to expand Vera Rubin superclusters to multi-gigawatt scale. Oracle also plans HGX Rubin NVL8, a smaller configuration connecting eight Rubin graphics processors with two Intel Xeon 6 central processors. That planned configuration is intended to retain compatibility with applications built for x86 processors. Its future introduction and the larger expansion are separate from the general availability announced for Vera and Vera Rubin NVL72.[1]
