Australia's DUG develops immersion cooling data center container

• DUG, best known as an early adopter of immersion-cooled data center designs, has deployed a Nomad container at the Adacen data center in Silver Spring, Maryland, to demonstrate the prototype to customers.

• In the company’s October 2024 report, DUG said it had spoken to clients about potential deployments including on a seismic acquisition crew in the Saudi Arabian desert; in the car park of a major oil and gas company where the current data center can’t handle modern equipment; and onboard a moving ship.

• DUG currently has HPC deployments in Houston, Texas; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; and Perth, Australia. The company is also planning another Australian site in Geraldton, some 400km north of Perth in Western Australia.

NVIDIA Renames Blackwell Ultra to B300 Series; CoWoS-L Expected to See Growth by 2025, Says TrendForce

• TrendForce reports that NVIDIA has recently rebranded all its Blackwell Ultra products to the B300 series. Looking ahead to 2025, NVIDIA plans to strategically promote the B300 and GB300 lines—which utilize CoWoS-L technology—thereby boosting the demand for advanced packaging solutions.

• TrendForce highlights that NVIDIA is refining its Blackwell chip segmentation to better meet the performance demands of CSPs and the cost-performance needs of server OEMs, allowing for flexibility based on supply chain capabilities. The B300A is specifically aimed at OEM clients, with mass production projected to commence in the second quarter of 2025 following peak shipments of the H200.

NVIDIA Contributes NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 Designs to Open Compute Project

• During the 2024 OCP Global Summit, NVIDIA announced that it has contributed the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 rack and compute and switch tray liquid cooled designs to the Open Compute Project (OCP).
  

• At OCP, NVIDIA also announced a new joint GB200 NVL72 reference architecture with Vertiv, a leader in power and cooling technologies and expert in designing, building and servicing high compute density data centers. 

Meta Debuts 140 kW Liquid-Cooled AI Rack

• Meta Engineering shared its soon-to-be-released Catalina rack design for high-density AI computing.

• Catalina is built to support the latest NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip to ensure capacity for the growing demands of modern AI infrastructure. The Catalina platform's Orv3, a high-power rack (HPR) capable of supporting up to 140 kW, embodies this support.

• As unveiled to the OCP technical community, Meta billed Catalina as the company's newest high-powered rack designed for AI workloads, based on the NVIDIA Blackwell platform full rack-scale solution, and with a design focused on modularity and flexibility.

Hyperscaler Robots to Muscle Heavier GPU Racks

• This year's OCP spotlight announcements indicated a growing focus on robotics by the hyperscalers as their networks grow.

• Google revealed a specific interest in using robotics to manage GPU racks, which are much heavier than many traditional cloud racks, creating new safety concerns for data center staff.

• Google VP/Engineering Fellow Partha Ranganathan shared video footage of large robotic units moving through a Google data center, managing hard drives and equipment.

Vertiv Codevelops with NVIDIA Complete Power and Cooling Blueprint for NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 Platform

• LONDON, UK [October 17, 2024] – Vertiv,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 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.

• 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. 

Jensen Huang and Mukesh Ambani discussed AI infrastructure investments at the NVIDIA AI Summit in Mumbai

• Artificial intelligence will be the driving force behind India’s digital transformation, fueling innovation, economic growth, and global leadership, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday at NVIDIA’s AI Summit in Mumbai.

• Addressing a crowd of entrepreneurs, developers, academics and business leaders, Huang positioned AI as the cornerstone of the country’s future.

• Ambani underscored the role of AI in public sector services, explaining how India’s data combined with AI is already transforming governance and service delivery.