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AMD Debuts Helios Rack Design as Oracle Commits to MI450 Cloud Supercluster in 2026

Oracle will begin installing 50,000 MI450 GPUs on OCI in Q3 2026, marking the first cloud commitment aligned to AMD’s open Helios blueprint.

Overview

  • AMD publicly showcased its Helios rack-scale reference design at the OCP Global Summit, positioning it for mass deployments starting in 2026.
  • Each Helios rack integrates 72 Instinct MI450 accelerators delivering 2.9 exaFLOPS of FP4 compute and roughly 31 TB of HBM.
  • The platform is built on Meta’s ORW double‑wide rack and OCP standards to improve power delivery, liquid cooling, and maintainability.
  • Helios combines Instinct GPUs with EPYC CPUs, Pensando DPUs, and UALoE vertical plus UEC horizontal fabrics for scale-up and scale-out networking.
  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will be the first to offer a publicly available MI450-based AI supercluster, with deployments starting in Q3 2026 and expansion planned through 2027.