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Ram Nagappan

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Gigawatt-scale AI Infrastructure Architect | Reporting to CTO & SVP | Strategic Advisor to EVP/SVP at Oracle
📍 Chandler, Arizona, United States

Ram Nagappan is a Distinguished Technical Architect at Oracle, specializing in gigawatt-scale AI infrastructure and advising executive leadership. With over 20 years of experience, including a key role designing Intels exaflop Aurora supercomputer, he is an expert in ultra-large-scale GPU deployments. He holds a Master of Science from Arizona State University.

His design work on the Aurora system at Intel involved integrating over 63, 000 GPUs, creating one of the worlds most powerful supercomputers within a 60MW power envelope.

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Experience
25 Years
Current Role
Gigawatt-scale AI Infrastructure Architect | Reporting to CTO & SVP | Strategic Advisor to EVP/SVP
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Chandler, Arizona, United States
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Gigawatt-Scale AI
As a lead architect at Oracle Cloud, he designs and optimizes AI infrastructure for massive LLM training workloads, focusing on large-scale GPU deployments.
HPC Architecture
He was the HPC System Architect for the exaflop-scale Aurora supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory, showcasing his expertise in high-performance computing design.
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Career

Work history

1-2024
Gigawatt-scale AI Infrastructure Architect | Reporting to CTO & SVP | Strategic Advisor to EVP/SVP
Oracle
2-2022 - 1-2024
Generative AI/ML LLM Infrastructure
Intel
3-2018 - 2-2022
HPC Architect
Intel
6-2000 - 3-2018
Engineering, Architecture and Management
Intel
Software Engineer
Micron Technology, Inc
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First Principles: Data Center Innovations to Power Gigawatt Scale .... Featured in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Blog
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Education
Master of Science (M.S.)
Arizona State University
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)
University of Madras
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