Oracle Acceleron

Oracle Acceleron helps run demanding workloads in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) with high throughput, ultralow latency, strong isolation, and more efficient CPU utilization.

Oracle Acceleron SmartNIC brings those benefits to OCI Compute through a converged design that improves bandwidth consistency and infrastructure performance while preserving OCI’s isolation model.

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First Principles: Oracle Acceleron Network Virtualization for Nextgen AI Workloads (10:11)

How Oracle Acceleron Powers a New Generation of OCI Compute Shapes

Discover how you can take your workloads to the next level with Oracle Acceleron.

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Overview
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Advance performance across OCI

Oracle Acceleron is the umbrella for networking and infrastructure innovations that support AI, HPC, and other data-intensive applications in OCI. The suite of network software and architecture includes advances in network architecture, packet processing, storage access, and infrastructure isolation. Together, these technologies help improve data movement, reduce overhead, and support demanding workloads at scale.

Host network accelerator

Oracle Acceleron SmartNIC built into OCI Compute

Oracle Acceleron SmartNIC unifies storage, management, and tenant data traffic on a single high performance physical interface to reduce overhead and simplify infrastructure.

Advanced hardware offloads and integrated security, visibility, and availability capabilities help improve throughput, reduce latency, and maintain strict data isolation in multitenant cloud environments.

Zero Trust Packet Routing

OCI Zero Trust Packet Routing applies least-privilege controls at the infrastructure level to help protect workloads and support secure, scalable networking.

Storage acceleration

Oracle Acceleron helps improve storage efficiency by reducing overhead in the data path and creating a foundation for higher-performance attachment models across OCI.

Support for standards-based interfaces such as NVMe helps simplify operations while improving consistency and efficiency for workloads that depend on high-throughput, high-I/O performance.

Infrastructure acceleration

Oracle Acceleron helps reduce unnecessary overhead in how networking, storage, and infrastructure services are handled across OCI. This helps improve deployment efficiency, reduce variability, and support more consistent performance across demanding workloads.

By moving more infrastructure processing into dedicated hardware, Oracle Acceleron helps keep more host resources focused on application workloads.

Why choose Oracle Acceleron?

Packet processing performance

Lower latency

Reduced network hops

Strong isolation

Built into the architecture

Oracle Acceleron use cases—built for cloud workloads

Oracle Acceleron is especially relevant for workloads that depend on fast data movement; efficient infrastructure performance; and predictable, low-latency communication.

AI training

Support large-scale environments that rely on efficient networking, high throughput, and steady data movement across clustered infrastructure.
AI inference

Support inference workloads that require responsive infrastructure and predictable networking performance in production environments.
Network-intensive workloads

Support security, edge, and internet-scale services that depend on high packet rates, low latency, and efficient packet handling.
Media and streaming services

Support media processing and streaming workloads that rely on efficient data movement, consistent performance, and scalable infrastructure.

April 16, 2026

Introducing the Next Generation of OCI Compute Shapes

Donald Lu, Senior Vice President, Software Development, Oracle

As infrastructure costs evolve, memory efficiency, storage performance, and network performance now play a central role in overall workload price-performance. The cost curve now favors applications and workloads that use memory more efficiently. At the same time, memory and storage now account for more of total workload cost and value, while network performance has become a key workload differentiator.

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