NVIDIA launches OpenShell Reference Architecture for secure AI agents
NVIDIA announced the OpenShell Reference Architecture at GTC Berlin, a full-stack design for building, containing, observing and enforcing safe AI agents on enterprise and edge infrastructure, and said it is now available. It combines OpenShell secure runtime software with Vera Rubin systems for inference, Vera CPUs for agent harnesses and tool use, and BlueField-4 DPUs running NVIDIA Sentry for in-silicon enforcement, extending to RTX Spark, DGX Spark and DGX Station at the edge. NVIDIA says Vera Rubin NVL72 delivers 30x higher throughput per megawatt on agentic workloads and that Sentry stops an agent leaving its boundary in milliseconds while raising agent capacity by up to 20%; those figures are vendor claims not independently measured. Anthropic, AWS, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Dell, Google Cloud, HPE, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Palo Alto Networks, SAP and ServiceNow are among companies NVIDIA lists as working with the architecture, and Sentry is planned for availability early next year, with DOCA libraries available now.
News Summary:
- The NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture delivers enterprise governance, isolation and security for building, containing, observing and enforcing safe agents across enterprise infrastructure and edge systems.
- Built on the foundation of NVIDIA OpenShell secure runtime software, the architecture brings together NVIDIA Vera Rubin infrastructure for model inference, NVIDIA Vera CPUs for agent harnesses and tool use, and NVIDIA BlueField-4 DPUs running NVIDIA Sentry for in-silicon enforcement. The OpenShell Reference Architecture extends to the edge with NVIDIA RTX Spark, NVIDIA DGX Spark and NVIDIA DGX Station systems.
- The OpenShell Reference Architecture runs on leading enterprise operating systems, including Canonical, Red Hat, and Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Execution Containers.
- Anthropic, AWS, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Dassault Systèmes, Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, HPE, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Palo Alto Networks, Perplexity, SAP, ServiceNow, Siemens, SpaceX Super Intelligence and others are among those working with the OpenShell Reference Architecture to enhance the security of agent deployments.
GTC Berlin—NVIDIA today announced the NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture, which enables building, containing, observing and enforcing safe agents on enterprise infrastructure and edge systems.
The OpenShell Reference Architecture builds on the foundation of NVIDIA OpenShell™ secure runtime software, extending it into full-stack, industrial-scale infrastructure for agent development and operations.
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