HPE releasing Cray EX, Cray XD supercomputers with smaller form factor and lower price point

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced it is making supercomputing accessible for more enterprises to harness insights, solve problems and innovate faster by delivering its worldleading, energy-efficient supercomputers in a smaller form factor and at a lower price point.

The expanded portfolio includes new HPE Cray EX and HPE Cray XD supercomputers, which are based on HPE’s exascale innovation that delivers end-to-end, purpose-built technologies in compute, accelerated compute, interconnect, storage, software, and flexible power and cooling options. The supercomputers provide 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 faster.

HPE is introducing the following new supercomputers that government and enterprises can benefit from:

HPE Cray EX2500 supercomputers – Offer the same architecture as the HPE Cray EX4000 supercomputer, which enables the world’s first and fastest exascale-class system, but 24% smaller to fit inside an enterprise datacentre. This new form factor approach features 100% directliquid 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 that were created by integrating the HPE and Cray portfolios to provide maximum performance for advanced workloads including modelling, simulation and AI. The new HPE Cray XD supercomputers are compatible with traditional enterprise datacentres as they provide customers with the flexibility and broad range of options to customise technologies across CPUs, accelerators, storage, interconnect, and power and cooling options, depending on workload needs.

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 to support demanding workloads. The HPE Cray EX2500 supercomputer will support the 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors and 4th Generation Xeon Scalable processors.