HPE Unveils New Solutions to Boost AI Model Training

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) today announced the HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 for complex AI model training tasks, powered by 5^th Gen AMD EPYC™ processors. The new HPE system is optimized to quickly deploy high-performing, secure and energy efficient AI clusters for use in large language model training, natural language processing and multi-modal training.

The race is on to unlock the promise of AI and its potential to dramatically advance outcomes in workforce productivity, healthcare, climate sciences and much more. To capture this potential, AI service providers, governments and large model builders require flexible, high-performance solutions that can be brought to market quickly.

“Training large language models, and doing so efficiently, requires strong-scaling, massive parallel computing capabilities, and unique services that only HPE’s high performance computing solutions deliver,” said Trish Damkroger, senior vice president and general manager, HPC & AI Infrastructure Solutions at HPE. “As a leader in delivering the world’s most powerful and energy-efficient systems, together with AMD, we are extending this innovation to the new HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 to support a growing market of AI model builders and accelerate scientific and engineering breakthroughs across industries.”

“Through the powerful combination of the latest AMD EPYC processors and Instinct accelerators, HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 customers can accelerate time to market and experience true leadership in AI performance and efficiency,” said Forrest Norrod, executive vice president and general manager, Data Center Solutions Group, AMD. “Our collaboration with HPE continues to deliver flexible, highly performant solutions that help maximize AI efforts for increased demand in large language model training and advances competitive industry innovation.”

Speed to solution and flexibility increase competitive edge for AI

The HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 delivers speed to solution for large AI model training and tuning projects using a new HPE-designed modular chassis. The modular, compact 5U chassis shortens time to market for solutions and provides the flexibility to accommodate a wide range of GPUs, CPUs, components, software and cooling methods. Additionally, the HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 brings together HPE’s decades of direct liquid cooling expertise, along with security innovation with HPE iLO, creating a high-performance solution designed to be sustainable and secure.

The key feature includes:

• Run the largest AI models with fewer GPUs
• Improve efficiency with optional direct liquid cooling
• Accelerate deployment and operations
• Protect against growing security threats
• Optimize rack density
• Simplify manageability of large AI clusters

HPE also announced today that HPE ProLiant servers have achieved 48 world records, including 30 new world records, on the HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers . New world records include leadership performance and power efficiency for enterprise workloads.