Nvidia has delivered the first Blackwell systems to Meta and Microsoft, the first of what will become an avalanche of new AI hardware. So it should not surprise anyone that much of this year’s Open Compute Program summit in the Bay Area will embrace the new GPU and the accompanying networking that unlock its potential.

Nvidia has contributed its GB200 NVL72 rack and compute/switch tray designs to the Open Compute Project (OCP), enabling OCP members to build their designs based on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs. The company is sharing key design elements of its high-performance server platform to accelerate the development of open data center platforms that can support Nvidia's power-hungry next-generation GPUs with Nvidia networking.

Nvidia Corp. today said it has contributed parts of its Blackwell accelerated computing platform design to the Open Compute Project and broadened support for OCP standards in its Spectrum-X networking fabric.

In addition to the rack architecture contributions, Nvidia is broadening its Spectrum-X networking support for OCP standards.