Vertiv is releasing a complete 7MW reference architecture of the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 platform to transform traditional data centre 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 optimise deployment speed, performance, resiliency, cost, energy efficiency and scalability for current- and future-generation data centres.
Vertiv CEO, Giordano (Gio) Albertazzi, said the company’s portfolio of high-performance power and cooling solutions, combined with its global scale, will enable customers to deploy AI data centres faster, more efficiently and with greater flexibility to address densification, dynamic workloads, retrofits and enable future-ready designs.
NVIDIA founder & CEO, Jensen Huang, said new data centres are built for accelerated computing and generative AI with architectures which are significantly more complex than those for general-purpose computing.
“With Vertiv's world-class cooling and power technologies, NVIDIA can realise our vision to reinvent computing and build a new industry of AI factories that produce digital intelligence to benefit every company and industry,” he said.
"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 centres while reducing risk and enabling standardisation across sites."
The architecture’s complete critical power infrastructure is designed to significantly reduce stranded power by aligning AI clusters to data centre 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 centres, designed to help customers navigate integrated solutions for power and cooling for AI and other high-performance computing applications.
To access the reference designs, visit Vertiv.com.