The Vertiv SmartRun digital twin is the first converged physical infrastructure asset in the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint, a simulation environment for designing AI factory infrastructure at gigawatt scale. Built with Dassault Systèmes' model-based systems engineering tools on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, it allows power, cooling, controls and deployment workflows to be modelled as a single interdependent system rather than designed in isolation across separate teams.
The practical argument is about timing. Traditional document-based infrastructure planning introduces late-stage change risks when different subsystems are designed sequentially. A shared digital model lets teams simulate configurations and validate integration requirements before breaking ground, reducing the gap between compute specifications and physical readiness.
Vertiv positions this as phase one of a multi-phase AI factory digital twin roadmap. A subsequent phase will extend the approach to Vertiv OneCore Rubin DSX, its prefabricated data centre product.
The partnership spans three companies: Vertiv contributes the physical infrastructure layer and systems engineering; NVIDIA provides the Omniverse DSX simulation environment, which uses OpenUSD, SimReady assets and power and thermal simulation tools; Dassault Systèmes supplies the model-based engineering platform that encodes configuration rules and dependencies.
Vertiv will demonstrate SmartRun as both a physical system and a configurable digital twin at Computex Taipei 2026.
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