Vertiv SmartRun digital twin brings AI factory infrastructure planning into NVIDIA Omniverse DSX

Vertiv has announced progress on a production-grade digital twin capability for Vertiv SmartRun, integrated with the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint, as the company works to make AI factory infrastructure more configurable, repeatable, and simulation-ready.

The capability moves infrastructure planning from document-based processes into a model-based environment. Power, cooling, controls, and deployment dependencies can be designed, simulated, and validated as a single system before build-out, giving teams a way to test infrastructure choices earlier in the process.

AI factory planning moves into a model-based workflow

Vertiv said SmartRun’s digital twin captures system configurations and dependencies in a virtual environment. The approach is intended to reduce late-stage design changes and integration risk, while improving coordination across teams involved in infrastructure planning, deployment, and operational readiness.

The company described the SmartRun digital twin as the first phase in a multi-phase AI factory digital twin roadmap. The roadmap is intended to preserve engineering intent from early configuration and simulation through deployment, commissioning, lifecycle assurance, and future optimisation.

Scott Armul, chief product and technology officer at Vertiv, said AI infrastructure requires tighter coordination between physical infrastructure and compute requirements.

“AI infrastructure can no longer be planned one compute generation at a time,” said Armul. “To deliver more tokens per second per megawatt, customers need power, cooling, controls, and deployment workflows to be designed as one interdependent system. 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. As we extend this approach to Vertiv OneCore Rubin DSX, Vertiv is helping customers translate future compute requirements into deployable physical infrastructure before those requirements reach full deployment scale.”

SmartRun connects to NVIDIA Omniverse DSX workflows

The integration connects Vertiv SmartRun to NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint workflows. NVIDIA said Omniverse DSX Blueprint helps the ecosystem build, simulate, and optimise gigawatt-scale AI factory digital twins using OpenUSD, SimReady assets, and power, thermal, and operational simulations.

Vertiv will demonstrate SmartRun at Computex Taipei 2026 as both a physical infrastructure system and a configurable digital twin. Attendees will be able to explore configuration scenarios and see how model-based design choices can support downstream planning, coordination, and simulation workflows.

The demonstrator was created using Dassault Systèmes model-based systems engineering capabilities on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and connected to NVIDIA Omniverse DSX workflows. Vertiv said the setup supports configuration, simulation, validation, and future optimisation across the AI factory infrastructure lifecycle.

Stéphane Sireau, vice president of high tech industry at Dassault Systèmes, said digital twins can represent complex infrastructure systems through their configuration rules, dependencies, and engineering intent. He added that the Computex demonstration shows Vertiv, Dassault Systèmes, and NVIDIA moving Vertiv’s AI factory infrastructure from document-based design workflows towards a model-based systems engineering approach.