Hannah Coutand, NVIDIA Vera CPU & Harsh Banwait, CoreWeave
Harsh Banwait of CoreWeave and Hannah Coutand of NVIDIA join theCUBE Research hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante to explore Vera Rubin, sandboxing and factory design for artificial intelligence, or AI, at CoreWeave Fully Connected 2026. The conversation examines agentic AI workflows and heterogeneous computing infrastructure for production environments. They examine how Vera Rubin hardware and co-designed data processing units, or DPUs, central processing units, or CPUs and graphics processing units, or GPUs enable next-generation agentic workloads. The discussion covers sandbox performance, the Open Agent Safety Platform and OpenShell, rack-scale system design and factors to consider for orchestration, latency and memory bandwidth in production AI infrastructure. Banwait reports that CoreWeave observes approximately a threefold improvement in sandbox startup times on Vera CPUs, highlighting gains in density and burst performance for agentic workflows. They discuss implications for sandbox scaling and orchestration. Coutand emphasizes NVIDIA's extreme co-design methodology and positions Vera as purpose-built for agentic AI and data processing. They outline how co-designed DPUs and GPUs contribute to rack-scale performance while enhanced observability addresses critical system bottlenecks. Hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante note that GPUs remain central while CPUs DPUs and observability close key infrastructure gaps.