NVIDIA Opens Vera Rubin Rack Architecture and Pushes Open Standards for AI Data Centers
At the OCP Global Summit, NVIDIA contributed its Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs to the open MGX architecture and announced a series of partnerships covering AI factory power, cooling and networking standards. Partners include hyperscalers such as Meta, Google, Microsoft and AMD, plus Cisco and Visionbay. The announcements cover rack design specs (MGX 1.2), new open-source software for managing AI data centers (DSX OS components), grid resilience standards, an 800VDC power architecture, new Ethernet switching (Spectrum-6) and a new optical transceiver standard (USFP) with Cisco.