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Columbus, Ohio – October 12, 2026 -- Vertiv has deployed a three-rack SmartIT integrated AI infrastructure configuration at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) to support the school's new NVIDIA DGX GB300 system, converting an existing facility into a high-density, liquid-cooled environment.

NVIDIA supplied the DGX GB300 system. Vertiv provided and deployed the supporting physical infrastructure, engineering expertise and installation services needed to bring the environment online. The project covers education, research, digital engineering, modeling and simulation.

Columbus, Ohio – October 12, 2026 -- Vertiv's 2.3 MW CoolChip coolant distribution unit (CDU) has qualified as a NVIDIA DSX Ready CDU, making it the first CDU to qualify specifically under the program, the company said.

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) is among the initial providers of qualified CDU solutions in NVIDIA DSX Ready. The program lets AI factory builders identify power and cooling products that meet applicable NVIDIA DSX requirements.

Qualification rests on NVIDIA's CDU self-qualification suite

For CDU providers, the program uses the NVIDIA CDU self-qualification suite to determine whether a specific offering meets applicable functional requirements. NVIDIA DSX Ready connects individual products to those requirements.

The qualification does not replace site-specific engineering. Customers must still determine how a qualified product fits their facility design, system configuration and operating requirements.

San Jose – October 12, 2026 -- Wiwynn unveiled a 6kW double-sided cold plate that it says cuts power delivery loss by up to 80%, alongside AI rack platforms for NVIDIA and AMD and a co-packaged optics (CPO) rack, at the 2026 OCP Global Summit in San Jose.

Wiwynn joins NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 pilot build program

Wiwynn and Wistron are among the first NVIDIA Pilot Build Partners for the Vera Rubin NVL72 platform, covering engineering validation and design-in. The liquid-cooled, rack-scale system integrates 72 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and 36 NVIDIA Vera CPUs with 6th-generation NVIDIA NVLink.

Wiwynn is also applying its rack integration and manufacturing capabilities to AMD's Helios rackscale solution, built on the Open Rack Wide (ORW) standard. Helios combines AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs, 6th Gen AMD EPYC CPUs, AMD Pensando networking and AMD ROCm software, with configurations tailored to cloud service provider (CSP) requirements.

San Jose – October 12, 2026 -- Cisco and NVIDIA plan to develop an open industry specification for a 400Gb/s-per-lane pluggable optical module that is expected to deliver 4x the bandwidth density of 200Gb/s-per-lane optics. The companies announced the Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP) at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit 2026.

Cisco also said the first systems powered by its 102.4T Silicon One G300 are shipping to customers. Its 51.2T P200-based systems are running in production at hyperscalers, including Microsoft and Alibaba.

USFP targets 4x bandwidth density and 1.3x power efficiency

Cisco and NVIDIA said USFP is expected to deliver 1.3x the power efficiency of 200Gb/s-per-lane optics. They say it relies on a proven operating model to reach 400Gb/s per lane, and that it preserves serviceability, deployment flexibility and the operational simplicity of today's pluggable optics.

Taipei – October 12, 2026 -- ASRock Rack Inc. is displaying a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack platform, which it says will be available for deployment in the near future, at booth D37 of the 2026 OCP Global Summit in San Jose, California. The event runs October 12 to 15.

ASRock Rack pairs NVIDIA Vera CPUs and HGX Rubin NVL8 with liquid cooling

The 2UXGM-VERA2 carries two NVIDIA Vera CPUs. ASRock Rack built it for agentic AI workloads, citing complex data pipelines and multi-step reasoning.

The 2U16X-GNR2/DLC Rubin is fully liquid-cooled and uses the NVIDIA HGX Rubin NVL8 platform. The company says it provides unified compute and memory bandwidth for massive-scale reasoning models.

The 6UXGM-GNR2 CX8/DLC is based on NVIDIA MGX architecture. It supports liquid-cooled NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs for enterprise AI, visual computing and inference deployments.

Espelkamp – October 12, 2026 -- HARTING Technology Group has joined the NVIDIA MGX ecosystem as a power system component provider for the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 platform, supplying power whips that span the shift from 480 VAC to 800 VDC data center architecture.

HARTING supplies two power whips covering both MGX power generations

Power whips are cable assemblies that distribute power from the building to each rack. For the 3RU 110kW power shelf of the Vera Rubin NVL72, HARTING provides a 100A/480VAC power whip. For the move to 800 VDC, it offers a next-generation 157A/800 VDC DC-DC power whip that connects the power infrastructure to the compute rack.

Rising compute density forces data centers to handle significantly more power in tighter spaces while maintaining reliability, efficiency and scalability. That puts new demands on the connectivity systems that feed AI infrastructure.

Austin – October 12, 2026 -- NVIDIA introduced the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, an open source platform and reference design that applies multi-layered security controls across the software, runtime and infrastructure where AI agents operate, with CrowdStrike collaborating on the effort.

NVIDIA Sentry enforces policy from BlueField-4 DPUs and can quarantine agents in milliseconds

At the software layer, NVIDIA OpenShell provides an open source secure runtime that governs how agents execute, what they can access and where inference occurs. NVIDIA Sentry adds an independent watchdog running on NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs. It uses NVIDIA DOCA for out-of-band, in-silicon monitoring of agent activity and policy enforcement.

Santa Clara – October 12, 2026 -- CIQ says model loading ran 33.8 percent faster on Linux 6.18 than on a kernel frozen at general availability, based on its own benchmarks of the same workload. The company is pitching the result for RLC Pro AI, its Enterprise Linux distribution for GPU infrastructure.

CIQ's argument is that AI hardware and frameworks move faster than the operating system beneath them. NVIDIA advances the hardware, CUDA the toolkit and PyTorch the framework. An enterprise kernel, by design, trails by an average of twelve to eighteen months. RLC Pro AI ships Linux 6.18, the latest production and long-term GPU drivers, and the CUDA toolkit together, validated as one stack.

Piscataway, N.J. – October 08, 2026 -- GenScript Biotech Corporation and NVIDIA have launched a global startup competition pairing wet lab validation with accelerated computing to push AI-driven drug discovery toward commercial proof points.

Up to six finalists will pitch before judges during JPM Week in January

The GenScript and NVIDIA Life Sciences Startup PitchFest opened applications today, with finalists confirmed in December. Up to six companies will be selected for a GenScript-hosted pitch event during JPM Week, competing before a panel of judges for a winning slot.

Delray Beach, Fla. – October 05, 2026 -- The global AI in Protein Engineering market will climb to USD 3.82 billion by 2031 from USD 1.44 billion in 2026, a 21.6% compound annual growth rate, according to a new forecast from MarketsandMarkets.

North America holds 48.6% market share as software platforms dominate spending

North America led the market with a 48.6% share in 2025. Software and platforms accounted for 75.4% of revenue the same year, as pharmaceutical and biotech firms prioritized AI-driven design tools over services. Within protein types, miniproteins are set to post the fastest growth at 23.7% CAGR through 2031.