- Oracle and NVIDIA have formed a multi-year partnership to help customers solve business challenges
- NVIDIA and Oracle have been serving enterprises together for years with accelerated computing instances and software available via OCI.
- Oracle is now offering early access to NVIDIA RAPIDS acceleration for Apache Spark data processing on the OCI Data Flow fully-managed Apache Spark service.
Oracle and NVIDIA have formed a multi-year partnership to assist customers in overcoming business challenges through accelerated computing and artificial intelligence.
The collaboration aims to bring the entire NVIDIA accelerated computing stack to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, from GPUs to systems to software (OCI).
OCI is expanding its capacity by tens of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs, including the A100 and the upcoming H100. When combined with OCI’s AI cloud infrastructure of bare metal, cluster networking, and storage, this gives enterprises a diverse set of options for AI training and deep learning inference at scale.
Safra Catz, CEO, Oracle, said: “To drive long-term success in today’s business environment, organizations need answers and insight faster than ever.Our expanded alliance with NVIDIA will deliver the best of both companies’ expertise to help customers across industries – from healthcare and manufacturing to telecommunications and financial services – overcome the multitude of challenges they face.”
“Accelerated computing and AI are essential for dealing with rising costs in all aspects of business operations,” said Jensen Huang, CEO and founder of NVIDIA. “Companies are increasingly depending on cloud-first AI strategies that enable fast development and scalable deployment.” Our collaboration with Oracle will make NVIDIA AI accessible to thousands of businesses.”
For years, NVIDIA and Oracle have worked together to provide enterprises with accelerated computing instances and software available through OCI. The expanded partnership is intended to accelerate AI-powered innovation for a wide range of industries in order to better serve customers and support sales by making the full NVIDIA AI platforms available on OCI instances.
NVIDIA AI Enterprise, the globally adopted software of the NVIDIA AI platform, includes essential processing engines for each step of the AI workflow, from data processing and AI model training to simulation and large-scale deployment. NVIDIA AI enables organizations to develop predictive models to automate business processes and gain rapid business insights with applications such as conversational AI, recommender systems, computer vision and more. The parties plan to make an upcoming release of NVIDIA AI Enterprise available on OCI, providing customers with easy access to NVIDIA’s accelerated, secure and scalable platform for end-to-end AI development and deployment.
In addition, Oracle is now providing early access to NVIDIA RAPIDS acceleration for Apache Spark data processing. One of the most popular cloud computing workloads is data processing. OCI Data Science intends to support OCI bare metal shapes, including BM.GPU.GM4.8 with NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs, across managed notebook sessions, jobs, and model deployment to meet this demand.
Also on the way is NVIDIA Clara, a healthcare AI and HPC application framework for medical imaging, genomics, natural language processing, and drug discovery. In addition, Oracle and NVIDIA are working together on new AI-accelerated Oracle Cerner offerings for healthcare, including analytics, clinical solutions, operations, patient management systems, and more.
