NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL4 DCBBS Blueprint for HPC & AI New
End-to-end Data Center Building Block Solutions with native FP64 performance for converged HPC and AI infrastructure
Purpose-Built for Scientific Research and Converged Computing
Announced at ISC 2026, Supermicro's Data Center Building Block Solutions® (DCBBS) Blueprint for HPC is based on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL4 platform — delivering the compute, networking, advanced liquid cooling, power distribution, and site infrastructure needed to accelerate time-to-online for research institutions and supercomputing centers.
Researchers increasingly rely on a converged approach to computing, pairing traditional FP64 double-precision simulation with accelerated computing and AI methods to revolutionize time-to-discovery across climate research, drug discovery, materials science, and energy. The NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL4 platform is built for this convergence, and the DCBBS Blueprint for HPC defines the steps to deploy it successfully — backed by Supermicro's proven track record building the world's largest liquid-cooled supercomputing clusters featuring over 100,000 GPUs.
Following Supermicro's DCBBS Blueprints for NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 and NVIDIA HGX Rubin NVL8 introduced at Computex, the Blueprint for HPC and AI applies the same end-to-end methodology to scientific computing.
Scalable Unit at a Glance
Inside the Scalable Unit
The Supermicro DCBBS Blueprint for HPC and AI based on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL4 Scalable Unit can be multiplied to deploy clusters of any size, from 3.2MW to 1GW, and includes:
Liquid-Cooled Compute Racks
8x liquid-cooled compute racks in customized 52U, 750mm-wide enclosures, each housing 36 NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL4 nodes within a 362 kW envelope — for a total of 288 nodes, up to 1,152 NVIDIA Rubin GPUs, and 576 NVIDIA Vera CPUs per Scalable Unit.
DLC-2 Direct Liquid Cooling
Advanced Direct Liquid Cooling technology stack (DLC-2) supporting 362 kW per rack, with 3x in-row cooling distribution units (up to 1.8MW each) per Scalable Unit in a 2+1 redundant configuration, direct-to-chip copper cold plates, and vertically mounted cooling distribution manifolds — featuring Supermicro SMC PG25-A coolant engineered for exceptional chemical and thermal stability.
NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand
NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand compute fabric across dedicated networking switch racks, with fully liquid-cooled options available — providing the high-bandwidth scale-out interconnect for distributed scientific and AI workloads.
Rack Power & Management
8x 72 kW power shelves per compute rack delivering busbar power for the 362 kW rack envelope, with two ToR management switches per rack for out-of-band control.
End-to-End Deployment Methodology
The Blueprint covers the full end-to-end sequence Supermicro has used to complete large-scale liquid-cooled projects at record-breaking speeds.
1Project planning & site survey. On-site facility surveys conducted by Supermicro experts assess loading dock access, data hall measurements and clearances, floor load ratings, and existing power and cooling infrastructure to inform a design proposal tailored to each project.
2Manufacturing & testing. Solution integration begins well before delivery, with racking, stacking, cabling, and system-level (L10) and cluster-level (L11) testing performed in Supermicro's global manufacturing facilities.
3On-site deployment. White-glove delivery and on-site integration cover rack placement, power and cooling connections, network cabling, commissioning, and on-site solution validation.
4Ongoing support. Support options include on-site response times as fast as 4 hours for mission-critical uptime.
Also Available: NVIDIA GB200 NVL4
Configurations for HPC and AI based on the NVIDIA GB200 NVL4 are also available for immediate deployment. Supermicro DCBBS delivers complete, modular AI infrastructure built from validated components and subsystems, enabling flexible deployment from individual servers and networking to full rack-scale and data center-level solutions, including software and services.
Source: Supermicro press release, June 22, 2026. NVIDIA, Vera, Rubin, Quantum-X800, and GB200 are trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation. Supermicro and Data Center Building Block Solutions are trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.