Oracle unveils next-generation AI supercomputer with 16 zettaFLOPS

LAS VEGAS - Oracle, a prominent player in the software industry with a market capitalization of $878 billion, announced on Tuesday its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Zettascale10, claiming it to be the largest AI supercomputer in the cloud, delivering up to 16 zettaFLOPS of peak performance. According to InvestingPro data, the company’s stock has surged over 8% in the past week, reflecting investor enthusiasm for its AI initiatives, though current analysis suggests the stock is trading above its Fair Value.

The system connects hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs across multiple data centers to form multi-gigawatt clusters. According to the company’s press release, OCI Zettascale10 serves as the fabric underpinning the flagship supercluster built in collaboration with OpenAI in Abilene, Texas, as part of the Stargate project. This strategic initiative aligns with Oracle’s robust revenue growth of nearly 10% over the last twelve months.

Built on Oracle’s Acceleron RoCE networking architecture and powered by NVIDIA AI infrastructure, the system aims to provide low GPU-GPU latency across clusters housed in large gigawatt data center campuses.

"With OCI Zettascale10, we’re fusing OCI’s groundbreaking Oracle Acceleron RoCE network architecture with next-generation NVIDIA AI infrastructure to deliver multi-gigawatt AI capacity at unmatched scale," said Mahesh Thiagarajan, executive vice president, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, in the statement.

Peter Hoeschele, vice president of Infrastructure and Industrial Compute at OpenAI, noted that the "highly scalable custom RoCE design maximizes fabric-wide performance at gigawatt scale while keeping most of the power focused on compute."

Oracle plans to offer multi-gigawatt deployments of OCI Zettascale10 to customers, initially targeting deployments of up to 800,000 NVIDIA GPUs.

The Oracle Acceleron RoCE networking architecture features what the company describes as a wide, shallow, resilient fabric that reduces network tiers, and provides higher reliability by eliminating data sharing across planes.

The company is now taking orders for OCI Zettascale10, which will be available in the second half of next year. With Oracle maintaining a strong financial health score according to InvestingPro, which offers comprehensive analysis and over 15 additional ProTips for this leading tech company, investors can access detailed insights about Oracle’s market position and growth potential through the platform’s exclusive Pro Research Report.

In other recent news, Oracle has announced several key developments that could impact its operations and partnerships. Oracle and Google Cloud have expanded their database services partnership, making new services for Oracle Database@Google Cloud available across eight Google Cloud regions globally. This includes the Oracle Autonomous AI Lakehouse and Oracle Exadata Database Service, providing enhanced options for customers using Oracle’s database technologies. Additionally, Oracle has unveiled its Oracle AI Database 26ai, integrating AI capabilities into its core architecture to support various data management and analytics functions.

In another announcement, Oracle has enhanced Oracle Database@AWS with new AI capabilities and procurement options through AWS channel partners. The company also plans to introduce Multicloud Universal Credits, allowing customers to purchase Oracle AI Database and Cloud Infrastructure services across multiple platforms, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Furthermore, Oracle has launched OCI Dedicated Region25, a smaller cloud infrastructure option for data centers, offering over 200 AI and cloud services while accommodating space-constrained environments. These developments underscore Oracle’s strategic focus on expanding its multicloud capabilities and AI integration.

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