Oracle and NVIDIA announced expanded AI computing plans on October 27, alongside an Oracle networking update aimed at keeping large distributed workloads running when connections fail.

The companies said NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 systems and Vera CPUs are generally available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. They also outlined plans to expand OCI Superclusters using NVL72 systems to multi-gigawatt scale. That expansion is a future plan, separate from the announced availability of the computing products.

Each NVL72 rack connects 72 graphics processors. Oracle and NVIDIA also described a planned HGX Rubin NVL8 configuration with eight GPUs in an x86-based server, offering a smaller deployment format.

Vera CPUs target work that AI agents perform between model requests, such as executing code, calling tools and retrieving information. The announcement says customers can scale CPU and GPU resources independently. Claims about improved utilization come from the suppliers.

Oracle’s separate Acceleron release described changes to the networking layer. These include faster data connections for computing and storage, additional block-storage attachment options, and a communications library that redirects traffic toward healthier network paths.

The company also announced front-end networking with automatic path selection and failover. Oracle presents those features as ways to improve resilience across AI infrastructure; its release does not establish independently measured performance for a particular customer.

Oracle cautioned that planned product functionality, release timing and pricing can change. The announcements do not supply a completion date for the full multi-gigawatt expansion.

Sources: NVIDIA — October 27 Oracle collaboration announcement: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-oracle-expand-nvidia-vera-rubin-to-multi-gigawatt-scale-and-bring-nvidia-vera-cpu-to-oracle-cloud-infrastructure Oracle — Acceleron networking announcement: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/oracle-unveils-new-cloud-networking-innovations-for-ai-302920240.html