Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced new solutions centered around deep learning systems, high-performance computing (HPC), and financial industry (FSI) applications. These new solutions are workload optimized compute platforms that are designed to accelerate customer innovation and time-to-value.
Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced new solutions centered around deep learning systems, high-performance computing (HPC), and financial industry (FSI) applications. These new solutions are workload optimized compute platforms that are designed to accelerate customer innovation and time-to-value.
HPC and Big Data workloads are becoming increasingly more mainstream as more and more organizations realized the value that can be obtained through these technologies. IDC is forecasting that the HPC market will grow by $10 billion in the next four years. HPE already has over a third of the HPC market and they intend to take on even more with improved solutions.
Machine learning models and simulation related to deep learning are growing ever more complex. In order to tackle this increasing sophistication HPE is announcing its new Apollo 6500 that runs up to 8 NIVIDIA GPU cards for maximum transfer bandwidth. This 4U system has a high ratio of GPU to CPU that enables organization to run algorithms faster and more efficiently, which leads to cost savings, accelerated delivery of real-time results, and reducing model training times. The Apollo 6500 supports deep learning computing platforms and applications programming interface models such as Caffe, CUDA, Torch, Theano, Tensorflow, NVIDIA Deep Learning SDK, and HPE’s Cognitive Computing Toolkit.
HPE is also introducing an open and supported parallel file system architecture for HPC with its Apollo 4520. The HPE Apollo 4520 is a dual-node system built with high performance fabrics and drive failover, designed specifically for Lustre implementations. HPE states that its Apollo 4520 delivers industry-leading resiliency and flexibility to meet its customers’ most demanding requirements.
HPE is helping its FSI customers gain a competitive edge with a number of new solutions including:
- HPE Moonshot Trader Workstation Solution: Enhances financial trader experience and productivity using HPE Moonshot and Citrix solutions. This enables trading companies to deploy physical hosted desktop environments, providing a secure workstation experience with accelerated graphics and high compute performance to run online trading applications.
- HPE Trade and Match Server Solution : Leverages the density-optimized HPE Apollo 2000 server with frequency optimized single socket processors to consistently deliver up to 28 percent performance improvement on trade processing and minimizing system latency for increased competitive differentiation with lower total cost of ownership (TCO).
- HPE Risk Compliant Archive Solution: Enables organizations to keep up with the increasing number of complex, regulatory archiving compliance requirements efficiently and securely, without the need for disruptive and time-consuming data migrations. This solution, composed of iTernity iCAS software verified for data archiving standards and Scality RING file and object storage with HPE Apollo 4000 servers, provides a long-term, robust, and cost-effective platform for implementing compliant data archives combined with an ability to support multiple media formats, applications, and locations.
Availability and pricing
The HPE Apollo 6500 is expected to be available in the third quarter of 2016. The HPE Apollo 4520 will be available on April 18, 2016, the Apollo 4500 chassis starts at $8,500. FSI solutions are available now.
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