End-to-end critical power and cooling reference designs for NVIDIA Blackwell architectures up to 7MW, with OCP infrastructure options
COLUMBUS, OHIO [October 15, 2024] – Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a global provider of critical digital infrastructure, today announced that it is releasing a complete 7MW reference architecture of the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform, co-developed with NVIDIA, that will enable customers to transform traditional data center architectures into AI factories capable of powering AI applications across the enterprise.
The reference architecture will accelerate the deployment of the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 liquid-cooled rack-scale platform and supports up to 132kW per rack. The architecture takes an end-to-end approach to infrastructure design to optimize deployment speed, performance, resiliency, cost, energy efficiency and scalability for current- and future-generation data centers.
“We are proud to deepen our collaboration with NVIDIA to enable AI-driven data centers of today and tomorrow,” said Giordano (Gio) Albertazzi, CEO of Vertiv. “As a leader in critical power and cooling infrastructure, Vertiv is uniquely positioned to support the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform. Our portfolio of high-performance power and cooling solutions, combined with our global scale, will enable customers to deploy AI data centers faster, more efficiently and with greater flexibility to address densification, dynamic workloads, retrofits and enable future-ready designs.
“New data centers are built for accelerated computing and generative AI with architectures that are significantly more complex than those for general-purpose computing,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “With Vertiv's world-class cooling and power technologies, NVIDIA can realize our vision to reinvent computing and build a new industry of AI factories that produce digital intelligence to benefit every company and industry.”
With Vertiv™ power and cooling infrastructure matched to, and closely coupled with, the NVIDIA Blackwell platform, the reference architecture simplifies and accelerates deployment of AI workloads in new and existing data centers while reducing risk and enabling standardization across sites. The architecture’s complete critical power infrastructure is designed to significantly reduce stranded power by aligning AI clusters to data center capacity blocks. The hybrid liquid- and air-cooling infrastructure leverages the interdependent impact of the two approaches to efficiently manage high-density heat removal. In addition, the design includes guidance for optional Open Compute Project-inspired systems, such as DC power shelves.
The reference architecture is part of the Vertiv™ 360AI portfolio of reference designs for retrofit and greenfield data centers, designed to help customers navigate integrated solutions for power and cooling for AI and other high-performance computing applications. Key benefits of the co-developed reference architecture for the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 design include:
- Rapid Deployment and Retrofit: Enabling the use of preconfigured modules and factory integration, VertivTM MegaModTM CoolChip delivers turnkey AI critical infrastructure up to 50% faster than onsite builds.
- Space-Saving Power Management: Using Vertiv’s advanced power technologies, including Vertiv™ Trinergy™ uninterruptible power supply system (UPS) and Vertiv™ EnergyCore lithium battery cabinet, the design delivers industry-leading reliability and energy-efficient power management in ~40% less space compared to legacy offerings.
- Energy-Efficient Cooling: Integrating liquid and low-GWP (Global Warming Potential) air cooling technologies at scale - including Vertiv™ AFC chiller, Vertiv™ Liebert® CW chilled water-based room cooling system and Vertiv™ XDU coolant distribution units - offers up to 20% lower annual cooling costs compared to fixed screw solutions.
- Dynamic Workload Management: Integrated load averaging via lithium-ion battery and next generation UPS provides support for dynamic GPU workloads.
- Installation and Operations Services: With an industry-leading scale, scope, and reach of ~4,000 field service engineers globally, Vertiv is the trusted lifecycle service partner and complex system-level expert for retrofit and newbuild.
As enterprises embrace AI at an unprecedented pace, Vertiv is reshaping the future of critical power and cooling to support accelerated computing, with the most complete portfolio of critical digital infrastructure that enables AI-ready infrastructure capable of managing the unique requirements of AI and other accelerated compute applications.
Vertiv’s collaboration with NVIDIA sets a future-forward roadmap for technical co-development and enables deployment of accelerated computing at scale. To access the reference designs, visit Vertiv.com. Vertiv experts are also available to discuss details of the new design at OCP Summit, October 15-17, at booth #C5.
About Vertiv
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extends from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs approximately 24,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. For more information, and for the latest news and content from Vertiv, visit Vertiv.com.
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