Meta and Oracle Adopt NVIDIA Spectrum-X to Enhance AI Data Centers

Meta and Oracle are accelerating their AI infrastructure ambitions through NVIDIA's Spectrum-X Ethernet switches, a MOVE poised to redefine efficiency in large-scale AI training. The collaboration underscores the growing demand for high-performance networking solutions as generative AI workloads scale exponentially.

Meta's integration of Spectrum-X into its FBOSS platform signals a strategic shift toward open, scalable networking architectures. "This isn't just about faster switches—it's about reimagining infrastructure for the trillion-parameter AI models of tomorrow," said Gaya Nagarajan, Meta's VP of Networking Engineering. The deployment could set new benchmarks for distributed training workloads across thousands of GPUs.

Oracle is taking a more radical approach, building giga-scale supercomputers leveraging both Spectrum-X and the forthcoming Vera Rubin architecture. These "AI factories" aim to overcome current bottlenecks in model parallelism, with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure EVP Mahesh Thiagarajan noting the solution could slash inter-node communication latency by 40%.