Oracle has announced several Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) distributed cloud updates, spanning a number of solutions, including OCI Supercluster, OCI Dedicated Region, Oracle Database AWS, Oracle Database Azure, and Oracle Database Google Cloud.
The company is now taking orders for OCI Supercluster, which it describes as the “largest AI supercomputer in the cloud,” with 3x as many GPUs as the Frontier supercomputer and 6x as many as other hyperscalers. OCI Superclusters consists of OCI Compute Bare Metal, ultra-low latency RoCEv2 with ConnectX-7 NICs and ConnectX-8 SuperNICs or NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand-based networks. Currently it is available with up to 131,072 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.
Additionally, customers can now order OCI Compute on NVIDIA L40S GPUs, NVIDIA Hopper architecture GPUs, and NVIDIA Blackwell platforms. Oracle also announced that NVIDIA Omniverse is now validated on OCI.
Next, the company announced OCI Dedicated Region25, a new smaller Dedicated Region configuration that starts at only three racks, has a 75% smaller launch footprint, and offers simplified datacenter requirements. It supports over 150 OCI AI and cloud services, and will be available in 2025.
Finally, Oracle Database AWS, Oracle Database Azure, and Oracle Database Google Cloud can provide direct access to Oracle Database services running on OCI that are deployed in those respective clouds.
According to Oracle, its partnerships with these hyperscalers provides customers with flexibility in running applications across clouds, and combines the benefits of Oracle Database and the other companies’ services.
Other distributed cloud innovations include new versions of the OCI Roving Edge Device, including a three-GPU option that is optimized for AI; new HeatWave capabilities; and new OCI Generative AI Agents with RAG capabilities.
“Our priority is giving customers the choice and flexibility to leverage cloud services in the model that makes the most sense for their business,” said Mahesh Thiagarajan, executive vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “With OCI’s distributed cloud capabilities, we’re helping customers deploy a dedicated cloud in a small, scalable footprint, build applications with the best services across cloud providers, and deploy AI infrastructure anywhere they want. This flexibility helps our customers address their unique needs and support their cloud investments in delivering significant business value.”
