Oracle and AMD are collaborating once again to help customers scale their AI capabilities and initiatives.
Demand for large-scale AI capacity is accelerating as next-generation AI models outgrow the limits of current AI clusters. To train and run these workloads, customers need flexible, open compute solutions engineered for extreme scale and efficiency.
Building on years of co-innovation, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has been selected to be a launch partner for the first publicly available AI supercluster powered by AMD Instinct™ MI450 Series GPUs, with an initial deployment of 50,000 GPUs starting in calendar Q3 2026 and expanding in 2027 and beyond.
OCI’s planned new AI superclusters will be powered by the AMD “Helios” rack design, which includes AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs, next- generation AMD EPYC™ CPUs codenamed “Venice,” and next-generation AMD Pensando™ advanced networking codenamed “Vulcano.” This vertically-optimized, rack-scale architecture is designed to deliver maximum performance, scalability, and energy efficiency for large-scale AI training and inference.
Mahesh Thiagarajan, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, states:
“Our customers are building some of the world’s most ambitious AI applications, and that requires robust, scalable, and high-performance infrastructure. By bringing together the latest AMD processor innovations with OCI’s secure, flexible platform and advanced networking powered by Oracle Acceleron, customers can push the boundaries with confidence. Through our decade-long collaboration with AMD—from EPYC to AMD Instinct accelerators—we’re continuing to deliver the best price-performance, open, secure, and scalable cloud foundation in partnership with AMD to meet customer needs for this next era of AI.”
To give customers that build, train, and inference AI at scale more choice, OCI also announced the general availability of OCI Compute with AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs. These will be available in the zettascale OCI Supercluster that can scale to 131,072 GPUs. AMD Instinct MI355X-powered shapes are designed with superior value, cloud flexibility, and open-source compatibility.
Forrest Norrod, executive vice president and general manager, Data Center Solutions Business Group at AMD, commented:
“AMD and Oracle continue to set the pace for AI innovation in the cloud. With our AMD Instinct GPUs, EPYC CPUs, and advanced AMD Pensando networking, Oracle customers gain powerful new capabilities for training, fine-tuning, and deploying the next generation of AI. Together, AMD and Oracle are accelerating AI with open, optimized, and secure systems built for massive AI data centers.”
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