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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Oracle's cloud platform, and the operator of two UAE regions - Dubai and Abu Dhabi - the latter now home to the Middle East's first OCI Supercluster built on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for sovereign AI workloads.
Where it sits in the stack
- User - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) does not work at this layer
- Application - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) does not work at this layer
- Model - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) does not work at this layer
- Inference - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) does not work at this layer
- ComputeThe processing power - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) works at this layer
- GPUThe physical chips - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) works at this layer
- Data CentreThe building - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) works at this layer
- Power & Network - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) does not work at this layer
Has a site in the UAE
Oracle operates two UAE regions - Dubai (opened 2020) and Abu Dhabi, me-abudhabi-1 (opened 2021) - and deployed the Middle East's first OCI Supercluster on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in Abu Dhabi for sovereign AI workloads.
- UAE - Dubai (2020) and Abu Dhabi, me-abudhabi-1 (2021)
What it offers
OCI Compute
Bare-metal and virtual machine compute, including GPU shapes for AI training and inference.
OCI Supercluster
High-performance GPU clusters for large-scale AI training, deployed on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs in Abu Dhabi.
OCI Object Storage
Object storage underneath Oracle's AI and data workloads.
What it can do
- Two in-country UAE regions for data residency
- Middle East's first OCI Supercluster, on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs
- Oracle Alloy, letting partners operate a distributable version of OCI
What its 3 layers mean
- Compute
The raw computing capacity - rented by the hour, the month or the year - that trains and runs AI models. This is what "the cloud" mostly means in practice.
- GPU
The specialised chips - mostly made by NVIDIA - that do the actual arithmetic behind AI, built to run millions of small calculations in parallel far faster than a general-purpose computer chip can.
- Data Centre
The physical building - racks, servers, cooling - where everything above this actually lives. An AI model has no existence outside a room full of running machines.
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