Hewlett Packard Enterprise is making supercomputing available to the enterprise by introducing the HPE Cray EX and HPE Cray XD with a lower cost, smaller footprint, and better energy efficiency. The new models will help enterprises harness insights, solve problems, and innovate faster.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is making supercomputing available to the enterprise by introducing the HPE Cray EX and HPE Cray XD with a lower cost, smaller footprint, and better energy efficiency. The new models will help enterprises harness insights, solve problems, and innovate faster.
The HPE Cray EX and HPE Cray XD are based on HPE’s exascale, delivering end-to-end, purpose-built technologies in compute, accelerated compute, interconnect, storage, software, and flexible power and cooling options. The expanded portfolio of supercomputers provides significant performance and AI-at-scale capabilities to tackle demanding, data-intensive workloads, speed up AI and machine learning initiatives, and accelerate innovation to deliver products and services to market in a more timely manner.
HPE’s Trish Damkroger, chief product officer and senior vice president, HPC, AI & Labs, stated:
“We have entered a new frontier with the exascale era, which is represented by massive data growth that requires advanced modeling, simulation, analytics, and AI-at-scale capabilities to realize outcomes and accelerate innovation. With the expanded portfolio of HPE Cray supercomputers, that leverage our world-leading exascale technologies, we are empowering broader commercial and public sector organizations to seize a growing opportunity by making supercomputing accessible to meet their scale and data center needs.”
Speeding time-to-market and competitiveness
Supercomputing continues to demonstrate significant value to advance R&D and strengthen competitiveness. By extending the power of supercomputing to the enterprise, organizations can take advantage of modeling and simulation capabilities to create digital representations that help them understand how something will look and perform in the physical world before productizing it.
As enterprises incorporate AI and ML into products and services, leveraging the power of supercomputing will help them build and train larger, robust AI models such as natural language processing and computer vision, to predict outcomes faster.
Supercomputers deliver benefits across industries
Industries focused on energy, financial services, health, life sciences, and manufacturing, can now benefit from powerful technologies by adopting supercomputing solutions that fit within their data center size, scale, and budget needs. Examples of use case benefits, across industries, include:
- Speeding up time-to-market with safer and high-performing cars: Car makers need to meet crash-testing requirements, to ensure the safety and performance of new vehicles, and to meet product launch timeline goals. By digitally simulating vehicle safety and performance using supercomputing, automotive manufacturers can better model and test vehicle design improvements and simulate accidents to make advancements to protect passengers.
- Improving manufacturing with sustainable materials: Having capabilities to simulate physical and chemical components to advance the discovery of alternative materials, can help the manufacturing space improve sustainable packaging options for personal and consumer care products, leading to a reduction in operating costs for businesses.
- Accelerating drug discovery to treat diseases faster: Research scientists and pharmaceutical labs can better understand chemical interactions that lead to breakthrough new drug therapies for challenging and even yet-to-be-discovered diseases.
- Making critical millisecond decisions in finance markets: Financial analysts can leverage supercomputing performance and AI capabilities to create detailed analytics and advanced algorithms to predict critical stock trends and trade, and even improve fraud detection and risk management.
Supercomputers to benefit government and enterprises
HPE is also introducing new supercomputers to benefit governments and enterprises. These additional supercomputers include:
- HPE Cray EX2500 supercomputers: Built on the same architecture as the HPE Cray EX4000 supercomputer, which enables the exascale-class system, but is 24 percent smaller to fit inside an enterprise data center. This new form factor approach features 100 percent direct-liquid cooling to improve energy efficiency, and enables a cost-effective solution for larger enterprises that want greater performance at scale but in a smaller implementation and lower carbon footprint.
- HPE Cray XD2000 and XD6500 supercomputers: Offer highly dense, purpose-built servers created by integrating the HPE and Cray portfolios to provide maximum performance for advanced workloads including modeling, simulation, and AI. The new HPE Cray XD supercomputers are compatible with traditional enterprise data centers providing customers with the flexibility and options to customize technologies across CPUs, accelerators, storage, interconnect, and power and cooling options, depending on workload needs.
The expanded supercomputer portfolio will also feature technologies built for exascale-class systems to support demanding compute-intensive and data-intensive workloads, such as AI and machine learning. Those technologies include:
- HPE Slingshot, an Ethernet interconnect to address demands for high speed and improved congestion control, helping complex applications run more smoothly.
- Cray Clusterstor E1000 that provides expanded storage with intelligent tiering to support data-intensive workloads, such as AI model training, to make storing and accessing data easy and efficient.
- HPE Cray Programming Environment brings a fully integrated software suite with compilers and developer tools to enable code portability, allowing developers to run the code when and where they need it to optimize modeling, simulation, analytics, and AI applications.
- Sophisticated direct liquid-cooling capabilities to efficiently remove heat from high-power devices such as processors, GPUs, and switches.
Enabling AI-at-scale
The new supercomputers are also ideal for enabling AI-at-scale and can be equipped with the HPE Machine Learning Development Environment, an optimized machine learning software platform to build and train bigger AI models, faster. Combining supercomputing technology with HPE Machine Learning Development Environment will speed up the typical time-to-value to start realizing results from building and training machine models, from weeks and months to days.
The new HPE Cray EX2500 and HPE Cray XD2000 and XD6500 supercomputers will support the latest CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators to provide advanced compute and accelerated compute capabilities. The HPE Cray EX2500 supercomputer will support the 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors and 4th Generation Xeon Scalable processors.
HPE is also the first to deploy a customer system using 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processors for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory. The new system, “Crossroads”, will support R&D for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to tackle critical modeling and simulation of nuclear weapons at high 3D resolutions to ensure the reliability and security of the nuclear stockpile.
The HPE Cray XD6500 supercomputers will support 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processors and NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs.
Availability
The HPE Cray EX2500 supercomputers, featuring 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processors, are available to order now for select customers, and will be broadly available in calendar year Q1 2023.
The HPE Cray EX2500 supercomputers, featuring 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors, are available to order now for select customers, and will be broadly available in calendar year Q2 2023.
The HPE Cray XD2000 supercomputers, featuring 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors with air-cooled capabilities, will be available to order on November 10. The HPE Cray XD2000, featuring 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors with direct liquid-cooling capabilities, will be available to order on December 5.
The HPE Cray XD2000 supercomputers, featuring 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors will be available to order in calendar year Q2 2023.
The HPE Cray XD6500 supercomputers, featuring 4th Gen Xeon Scalable processors, will be available to order in calendar year Q1 2023.
The HPE Cray XD6500 supercomputers, featuring NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, will be available to order, starting in calendar year Q1 2023.
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