Vertiv has unveiled a production-grade digital twin capability for Vertiv™ SmartRun, integrated with the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint. The announcement marks a significant advancement in accelerating AI factory design, simulation, and deployment workflows.
As enterprises scale AI deployments to support higher-density workloads and increased computing demands, traditional infrastructure planning methods are becoming inefficient. Vertiv’s SmartRun digital twin addresses this challenge by introducing a model-based systems engineering approach that replaces fragmented, document-driven workflows with a unified, simulation-first framework.
“AI infrastructure can no longer be planned one compute generation at a time… The Vertiv SmartRun digital twin helps encode Vertiv’s infrastructure expertise into configurable, simulation-ready building blocks that support faster, more confident AI factory planning,” said Scott Armul, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Vertiv.
The SmartRun digital twin enables organizations to design, simulate, and validate power, cooling, and control systems as a single interconnected infrastructure before physical deployment. By capturing system dependencies and configurations in a virtual environment, businesses can reduce design errors, minimize integration risks, and accelerate the transition from planning to operational readiness.
Integrated with NVIDIA Omniverse DSX, the solution leverages advanced technologies such as OpenUSD, simulation-ready assets, and real-time modeling across thermal, power, and operational parameters. This allows enterprises to evaluate infrastructure decisions early and optimize for future AI compute generations critical as AI factories scale to gigawatt-level operations.
The digital twin capability represents the first phase of Vertiv’s broader AI factory roadmap, which aims to bridge the gap between rapid innovation in accelerated computing and physical infrastructure readiness. The roadmap focuses on maintaining engineering intent across the full lifecycle from initial design and simulation to deployment, commissioning, and ongoing optimization.
Vertiv will showcase the SmartRun digital twin at Computex Taipei 2026, demonstrating both its physical infrastructure system and its configurable digital twin capabilities. Built using Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform and integrated with Omniverse workflows, the demonstration highlights how model-based design can enhance coordination, efficiency, and performance across AI infrastructure projects.
“AI factories require full-stack co-design across compute and physical infrastructure… Bringing Vertiv SmartRun into this workflow can help customers evaluate infrastructure choices earlier and prepare for multiple generations of accelerated computing,” added Vladimir Troy, Vice President of AI Infrastructure at NVIDIA.
This launch reinforces Vertiv’s position at the forefront of AI infrastructure innovation, helping organizations deploy scalable, high-performance AI factories with greater speed, precision, and operational confidence.
