ASRock Rack rolled out its first server built around NVIDIA's upcoming ARM-based Vera CPU at COMPUTEX 2026, the 2UXGM-VERA2, signaling that the next generation of NVIDIA's data center silicon will land in third-party chassis at launch. Vera pairs custom NVIDIA Olympus cores with LPDDR5X memory and the company's Scalable Coherency Fabric, and ASRock Rack quotes a 50 percent speedup over previous-generation CPUs on agentic and reinforcement-learning workloads where the host processor sits on the critical path.
The standalone CPU box sits alongside a broader lineup that pushes deeper into the rack. The headliner is a configuration for the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, cooled by a double-rack-width liquid-to-air coolant distribution unit. Two HGX Rubin NVL8 systems are also on the floor: the 2U16X-GNR2/DLC, which is fully liquid-cooled, and the 5U16X-GNR2/DLC, which mixes direct-liquid cooling on the CPUs and GPUs with airflow for the surrounding peripherals to keep storage and networking add-in cards flexible.
ASRock Rack is leaning hard on NVIDIA's MGX modular server specification, which defines a common chassis and interconnect baseline so multiple vendors can ship interchangeable nodes. The 6UXGM-GNR2/DLC fits up to eight liquid-cooled RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs for enterprise AI and visual computing, while the 4UXGM-GNR2 CX8 is pitched as an inference-cloud RTX PRO server. For the industrial edge, the 2UXGI-Thor wraps the NVIDIA IGX Thor platform for real-time sensor processing in robotics and medical applications where functional safety matters.
The Linux story for the Vera platform is in good shape ahead of general availability. Vera is compliant with Arm's Server Base System Architecture (SBSA), which means enterprise distributions work through standard ACPI and UEFI interfaces without requiring device trees or custom kernel workarounds. Linux 6.18 is the reference kernel, with ACPI CPPC v4 power management support still working toward upstream inclusion per NVIDIA's platform software guide. Both GCC 16.1 and LLVM Clang 21 include upstream support for the Olympus microarchitecture, making compiler optimization for Vera targets available in current toolchain releases rather than waiting for a post-launch update. The Phoronix benchmark suite published in late May 2026 ran entirely on a mainline kernel without bespoke patches and recorded a 20-second default Linux kernel compile time, the fastest result Phoronix has ever measured in that test. Canonical has separately announced Ubuntu 26.04 LTS as the validated OS foundation for Vera Rubin NVL72 deployments, with kernel, driver, and user-space integration confirmed for enterprise use and Arm treated as a first-class target alongside x86.
Pricing and shipping dates were not announced. The hardware is on display at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 2, Booth R0514 for the duration of COMPUTEX 2026.