Oracle unveils world’s first zettascale cloud computing cluster

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Setting a new benchmark for AI performance, tech giant Oracle has unveiled the world’s first zettascale cloud computing cluster, powered by NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs,

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is now offering the largest AI supercomputer on the cloud, capable of hosting up to 131,072 NVIDIA GPUs, as the tech giant aims to accelerate the global adoption of artificial intelligence.

“We’re supporting some of the most demanding AI workloads with our broad AI infrastructure offerings,” said Mahesh Thiagarajan, executive vice president – OCI.

“Our distributed cloud ensures customers can deploy AI services globally while maintaining high levels of data and AI sovereignty,” he added.

Oracle’s new offering surpasses other cloud offerings

The new supercomputer can deliver up to 2.4 zettaFLOPS of peak performance, far surpassing existing cloud offerings.

This scale is over three times that of the Frontier supercomputer and six times larger than other hyperscale systems.

Zoom, a prominent customer, is using OCI to enhance its AI Companion, a generative AI assistant designed to help users with tasks like drafting emails, summarising meetings, and brainstorming.

OCI’s data sovereignty features are crucial for Zoom’s expansion into Saudi Arabia, where it is rolling out these AI services.

NVIDIA’s Ian Buck highlighted the significance of this collaboration, noting that the combined AI computing power will push innovation across industries and geographies.

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