NVIDIA Opens Vera Rubin Rack Designs, Publishes Open Standards for Next-Gen AI Factories
elonmusk · x · 2026-10-12
At the OCP Global Summit, NVIDIA contributed Vera Rubin NVL72 rack and compute tray designs to the Open Compute Project via the open third-generation MGX architecture, giving system builders a shared foundation for AI factory infrastructure.
Other announcements:
- NVIDIA and hyperscalers published open AI factory design and grid resilience standards
- New open source components for NVIDIA DSX AI Factory
- Meta and NVIDIA advanced open AI networking with Spectrum-X Ethernet SuperNIC and Spectrum-6
- Visionbay introduced an 800V DC AI factory design for the Vera Rubin era
- NVIDIA and Cisco announced USFP, the industry's first 400Gb/s pluggable networking module
Cisco, Google, Meta, Microsoft and others are adopting Vera Rubin.
Related event: NVIDIA Opens Vera Rubin Rack Design to OCP for AI Factory Standards(2 posts)→
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