HPE to Build NVIDIA-Powered 21 ExaFLOPS AI Supercomputer in UK

HPE will build an NVIDIA-powered £225 million supercomputer at the University of Bristol in the UK that is expected to deliver “well over” 200 petaFLOP/s using the Top500’s LINPACK benchmark, and more than 21 ExaFLOP/s of AI performance, according to the university. The system, called Isambard-AI, will be built on HPE Cray EX supercomputer architecte and will consist of 5,448 NVIDIA….

Flare Gas Data Center Company Crusoe Picks HPE for Green GenAI

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced its HPE Cray supercomputers were selected by Crusoe, a builder of modular data centers, to power new cloud services designed to drive sustainable computing for generative AI and other compute-intensive workloads. Crusoe will leverage custom HPE Cray XD supercomputers to train and tune large-scale AI models….

Iceotope Teams with HPE, Intel and nVent on Liquid Cooled Open RAN for the Edge

Barcelona, February 27, 2023 — Liquid cooling company Iceotope has announced what it said is a highly efficient and scalable Open RAN solution to support far edge computing across telco data center estates. Created with demanding workloads in mind, Ku:l Extreme is designed to be an integrated, standardized solution that offers sustainability, energy efficiency and […]

HPE Acquires Reproducible AI Startup Pachyderm for AI-at-Scale

HOUSTON – January 12, 2023 – HPE today announced an expansion to its AI-at-scale offerings with the acquisition of Pachyderm, a startup that delivers software, based on open-source technology, to automate reproducible machine learning pipelines for large-scale AI applications. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. HPE said the acquisition builds on its February 2022 […]

HPE and Ayar Labs Partner to Bring Optical I/O to Slingshot Fabric for HPC and AI

HPC systems leader Hewlett Packard Enterprise and startup Ayar Labs, maker of chip-to-chip optical I/O connectivity, today announced a strategic collaboration to integrate silicon photonics within HPE’s high performance Slingshot fabric. Longer term, HPE envisions future generations of HPC systems interconnects significantly enhanced by optical I/O, which is a silicon photonics-based technology that uses light instead of electricity to transmit data. The technology addresses both the need for higher data rates and improved energy efficiency (see “Composable HPC-AI at Scale: The Emergence of Optical I/O Chiplets”).

Altair Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise

TROY, Mich., Jan. 6, 2022 — Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR) signed a multi-year agreement with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to offer Altair’s HPC solution suite for job scheduling and management with HPE’s HPC systems. The solution suite includes Altair PBS Professional, a scalable workload manager. “Altair and HPE have a strong, nearly 20-year relationship anchored in […]

HPE Launches GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud Platform for Analytics and Data Protection Cloud Services

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced new cloud services for the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform that the company said signify HPE’s entry into two software markets – unified analytics and data protection. “Together, these innovations further accelerate HPE’s transition to a cloud services company and give customers greater choice and freedom for their business […]

National Security Agency Awards HPE $2B HPC-as-a-Service GreenLake Contract

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced it has been awarded a $2 billion contract over 10 years with the National Security Agency (NSA) to deliver HPE’s high performance computing (HPC) technology as a service through the HPE GreenLake platform. The collaboration will be designed to enable the NSA to harness growing AI and data […]

HPE Buys Startup Open Source ML-HPC Platform Determined AI

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that it has acquired Determined AI, a San Francisco-based startup with a software stack designed to train AI models faster using its open source machine learning (ML) platform. HPE will combine Determined AI’s \software solution with its AI and high performance computing (HPC) offerings to enable ML engineers to […]

Qumulo Extends to Asia Pacific; Expands Partnership with HPE

SEATTLE — April 20, 2021 — Qumulo, focused on enterprise file data management across hybrid-cloud environments, today announced the expansion of its global operations to Asia-Pacific (APAC). Driven by increased regional demand, Qumulo also announced expansion of its strategic partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deliver simplicity and performance to customers across the region […]