# NVIDIA DSX Platform NVIDIA DSX™ unifies design, simulation, operations, and ecosystem technologies to help build AI factories optimized for lowest token cost. Overview ## A Platform for Co-Designing AI Factories for Lowest Token Cost NVIDIA DSX defines how [AI factories](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/glossary/ai-factory.md) are designed, built, and optimized across the full stack—from chips and systems to infrastructure software, facilities, and partner technologies. DSX combines open software libraries, workflow guides, and reference designs with NVIDIA compute platforms and co-designed OEM infrastructure to enable a broad ecosystem of software and hardware solutions. ### NVIDIA DSX Gives Infrastructure Builders the Playbook for AI Factories Engineered for AI factories, the NVIDIA DSX platform unifies design, simulation, and operations to optimize performance and reduce costs across the full infrastructure stack. [Read Press Release](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/dsx-infrastructure-ai-factory) ### NVIDIA DSX OS Delivers Open, Modular Software for Operating AI Factories at Scale See how DSX OS coordinates compute, power, cooling, and operations to run AI factories more efficiently. [Read Tech Blog](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-dsx-os-delivers-open-modular-software-for-operating-ai-factories-at-scale/) Benefits ## How Does NVIDIA DSX Optimize AI Factory Performance and Tokens per Watt NVIDIA DSX AI factories are co-designed as unified products—optimized for lowest-cost tokens. ### Reduce Time to First Token Accelerate bring-up with reference designs, simulation validation, and pre-tested software stacks. ### Maximize Tokens per Watt Improve tokens per watt by aligning infrastructure, power, cooling, and system behavior through one architecture. ### Increase Operational Resiliency Operate AI factories with greater stability under real production conditions, including hardware faults, grid events, operational changes, and continuous large-scale workloads. ### Secure AI at AI Factory Scale Deliver end-to-end integrated accelerated security to support AI factories with NVIDIA Confidential Computing and NVIDIA DOCA™ microservices. Technologies ## DSX Platform Technologies for AI Factories NVIDIA DSX is a platform that spans multiple technologies that partners can build with and build on—designed to maximize AI tokens per watt across the AI factory. #### NVIDIA DSX Reference Design Validated Architectures for AI Factories, From Chip to Grid NVIDIA DSX Reference Design’s generation-specific, validated AI factory architectures cover compute, networking, storage, facilities infrastructure, and hardware cluster design. [Read NVIDIA DSX Reference Design Guide](https://docs.nvidia.com/dsx/home#dsx-reference-designs) #### NVIDIA DSX Sim Simulation for AI Factory Design and Operations NVIDIA DSX Sim™ is a collection of simulation technologies and partner ecosystem tools that together enable AI factory builders and operators to design, validate, and operate AI factories before and after physical deployment. [Explore DSX Sim Documentation](https://docs.nvidia.com/dsx/home#dsx-sim) #### NVIDIA DSX OS Efficiently Operate AI Factories at Scale NVIDIA DSX OS™ is the operating layer within the broader DSX portfolio. It provides open source, modular software for lifecycle management, runtime consistency, health automation, resiliency, multi-tenant AI factory operations, and platform software that helps partners increase revenue and improve margins. [Browse DSX OS Documentation](https://docs.nvidia.com/dsx/home#dsx-os) #### NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS Dynamic Power Management to Maximize Tokens per Watt NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS™ is the power and efficiency software designed to maximize token performance per megawatt within a fixed power budget. It dynamically manages power at the GPU, rack, and workload levels, enabling AI factories to operate more GPUs at peak energy efficiency and achieve the lowest cost per token. [Learn More About DSX MaxLPS](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-releases-vera-rubin-dsx-ai-factory-reference-design-and-omniverse-dsx-digital-twin-blueprint-with-broad-industry-support) [See How Phaidra Uses It](https://apnews.com/press-release/ein-presswire-newsmatics/phaidra-coreweave-and-applied-digital-pioneer-nvidia-max-q-ai-factories-with-agentic-liquid-cooling-management-8b96b7914dfc6f8ea8c49459f9acf470) #### NVIDIA DSX Flex Grid-Responsive Power Orchestration for AI Factories DSX Flex bridges AI factories and the power grid, receiving grid signals—including load shedding, demand response, and pricing events—and dynamically adapting workloads in response. It also orchestrates power across utility sources, on-site renewables, and storage, enabling flexible hybrid energy management. [Learn More About DSX Flex](https://docs.nvidia.com/dsx/home) [See How Emerald AI Uses It](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-emerald-ai-join-leading-energy-companies-to-pioneer-flexible-ai-factories-as-grid-assets) #### NVIDIA DSX Exchange Secure Data Exchange Across IT, OT, and AI Factory Operations NVIDIA DSX Exchange™ enables scalable, secure integration of compute, network, energy, power, and cooling plant signals across IT, OT, and operations systems. It provides the common communication layer for AI factory software, facilities infrastructure, digital twins, and operations agents to coordinate in real time, helping teams monitor conditions, enforce policies, and optimize performance across the full AI factory. [Learn More About DSX Exchange](https://docs.nvidia.com/dsx/home) [EcoDataCenter Story With Schneider Electric](https://www.se.com/ww/en/about-us/newsroom/news/press-releases/%27we-can-build-a-future-where-energy-is-not-just-available-but-intelligent%27-%E2%80%93-schneider-electric-ceo-unveils-his-vision-for-company%E2%80%99s-future-68f7eea63eb67286a902dae9/) > Phaidra has integrated NVIDIA DSX MaxLPS to operate the entire AI factory as a single unit of compute, at scale. **Jim Gao**, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Phaidra > Advanced facilities are becoming increasingly complex and costly to build, and as AI infrastructure scales to the gigawatt level, owners need greater certainty before committing capital. With our deep knowledge, global workforce, and decades of delivering the world’s most advanced facilities, we’re creating solutions with NVIDIA DSX that help owners plan more efficiently, improve performance, and achieve more secure and resilient long-term operations. **Bob Pragada**, Chair and Chief Executive Officer, Jacobs > AI factories are too valuable to be treated as either passive loads or permanent islands. They produce tremendously valuable AI tokens and knowledge, and with NVIDIA DSX Flex, they can also provide measurable relief back to the grid. **Varun Sivaram**, Founder and CEO, Emerald AI > We’re not just shipping chips—we’re giving every infrastructure builder a complete playbook to build AI factories. With the NVIDIA DSX platform, you can simulate the entire factory before you spend a dollar, validate performance before a single rack is installed, and operate with the kind of reliability that production AI demands. That means faster time to value, fewer surprises, and the confidence to scale without limits. **Jensen Huang**, Founder and CEO, NVIDIA Previous Next 1. Quote 1 2. Quote 2 3. Quote 3 4. Quote 4 ## Operate at Scale With Validated AI Cloud Infrastructure Software The NVIDIA AI Cloud-Ready ISV Validation Initiative assesses infrastructure software across networking, compute, orchestration, and AI platform layers for NVIDIA Cloud Partner deployments. [Learn More About AI Cloud-Ready Validation](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/isv-validation-program.md) Resources ## The Latest From the NVIDIA DSX Ecosystem 1. What’s New 2. Sessions 3. Videos ### NVIDIA and IREN Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Deployment of up to Five Gigawatts of AI Infrastructure NVIDIA and IREN intend to support deployment of up to five gigawatts of NVIDIA DSX-aligned AI infrastructure across IREN’s global data center pipeline over time. [Read the IREN Press Release](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-iren-announce-strategic-partnership-to-accelerate-deployment-of-up-to-5-gigawatts-of-ai-infrastructure) ### NVIDIA Releases Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory Reference Design and Omniverse DSX Digital Twin Blueprint With Broad Industry Support The NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory reference design and NVIDIA Omniverse™ DSX Blueprint enable physically accurate AI factory digital twins for large-scale design, buildout, and operations. [Read the Vera Rubin DSX Press Release](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-releases-vera-rubin-dsx-ai-factory-reference-design-and-omniverse-dsx-digital-twin-blueprint-with-broad-industry-support) ### NVIDIA and Partners Build America’s AI Infrastructure and Create a Blueprint to Power the Next Industrial Revolution U.S. government labs and the nation’s leading companies are investing in advanced AI infrastructure to power AI factories and accelerate U.S. AI development. 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DSX spans chips and systems, infrastructure software, facilities, and partner technologies, enabling AI factories to produce more tokens per watt. It includes the following technologies: DSX Reference Design, DSX Sim, DSX MaxLPS, DSX Flex, DSX Exchange, and DSX OS. ### How is an AI factory different from a traditional data center? An AI factory is purpose-built for AI workloads, with an emphasis on inference performance, energy efficiency, and lowest token cost. NVIDIA DSX AI factories are co-designed as unified systems across chips, systems, networking, infrastructure software, power, cooling, and operations, unlike traditional data centers that are often assembled from siloed components. Traditional data centers primarily store, process, retrieve, and serve information. AI factories generate intelligence, turning data and energy into tokens, predictions, simulations, and AI-powered outputs. ### What is the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint, and is it available now? The NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint is an open, comprehensive framework for designing and operating large-scale AI factories. It is generally available on build.nvidia.com and fully compatible with the [NVIDIA Vera Rubin DSX AI Factory reference design](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-releases-vera-rubin-dsx-ai-factory-reference-design-and-omniverse-dsx-digital-twin-blueprint-with-broad-industry-support). The Blueprint lets developers build physically accurate digital twins of their AI factories, simulate operations in real time, and optimize performance before construction or deployment begins. It includes a complete AI factory digital twin, NVIDIA SimReady assets, hardware configs, prebuilt web UI, sample scripts, workflow guides, and NVIDIA CUDA-X™ and Omniverse core technologies. ### Who is NVIDIA DSX for? NVIDIA DSX serves a broad, multi-discipline ecosystem: NVIDIA Cloud Partners (NCPs), sovereign clouds, and Land/Power/Shell (LPS) providers; manufacturers of power and cooling equipment; Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) for design, simulation, and facilities operations; Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and system integrators; architectural, engineering, and construction firms; and infrastructure ISVs providing IaaS and PaaS solutions. DSX provides a common design standard so all parties—from Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU) manufacturers to ISVs—can contribute to AI factory builds without bespoke integrations. ### How does DSX provide the lowest token cost? NVIDIA DSX helps lower token cost by enabling AI factories to produce more tokens from the same power, infrastructure, and operations budget. Instead of treating compute, cooling, power, and operations as separate systems, DSX coordinates them as one integrated AI factory. DSX MaxLPS helps recover stranded power so customers can provision up to 40% more GPUs within the same megawatt budget. DSX OS improves uptime through automated fleet-scale operations. DSX reference designs accelerate deployment, while DSX Exchange and DSX Sim help unify facility, power, cooling, and compute signals to improve throughput, efficiency, and tokens per watt. ### How do I get started? Start with the [NVIDIA DSX documentation](https://docs.nvidia.com/dsx/home) to explore reference designs, software components, and partner integration paths for building AI factories. The docs provide technical guidance for designing, optimizing, and operating DSX-aligned infrastructure.