Oracle and NVIDIA Expand Vera Rubin Capacity on OCI
Oracle and NVIDIA plan to expand OCI Superclusters with Vera Rubin NVL72 systems to multiple gigawatts. Vera Rubin NVL72 systems and Vera CPUs are now generally available on OCI.
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Oracle and NVIDIA plan to expand OCI Superclusters with Vera Rubin NVL72 systems to multiple gigawatts. Vera Rubin NVL72 systems and Vera CPUs are now generally available on OCI.
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