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CoreWeave's first Vera Rubin NVL72 racks
Dell Delivers First Production Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 Racks to CoreWeave
The delivery marks the first time production Vera Rubin NVL72 racks have reached a cloud provider. CoreWeave has signaled further announcements tied to the hardware.
The full picture
Dell Technologies delivered the first production NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 racks to CoreWeave on September 4, 2026. Michael Dell announced the milestone on social media, saying: 'We have delivered the world's first production @nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 racks to @CoreWeave.' CoreWeave confirmed receipt the same day, with its engineering and data center teams bringing up the units. On September 8, CoreWeave thanked Dell Technologies and NVIDIA, calling the delivery a 'historic moment' and indicating more announcements are forthcoming.
How it developed
On September 10, Together AI published a technical account of porting its ThunderKittens GPU kernel library to the Vera Rubin NVL72, the Nvidia architecture whose first production racks Dell delivered to CoreWeave on September 4.
The team rebuilt its NVFP4 GEMM implementation for the new hardware, lifting performance from 42% of roofline efficiency to over 22 PFLOPS, which Together AI described as competitive with cuBLAS and CuTe DSL. The post also details changes in the Vera Rubin ISA and how they were leveraged.
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On September 8, CoreWeave recapped the delivery of the first production Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 racks by Dell Technologies, which CoreWeave called 'a historic moment,' and said further hardware-related announcements are forthcoming.
Michael Dell had announced the milestone on social media, with CoreWeave's engineering and data center teams bringing up the units.
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Dell Technologies delivered what Michael Dell described on social media as the world's first production Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 racks to cloud provider CoreWeave on September 4.
CoreWeave confirmed receipt, crediting NVIDIA and Dell Technologies as partners, and said its engineering and data center teams are in the process of bringing up the units.
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