HPE Delivers Faster Business Insights and Industry-Leading Security with New High Performance Computing Solutions

PALO ALTO, Calif. and FRANKFURT, Germany, June 19, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) today announced a new generation of High Performance Computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) systems, software and services to accelerate scientific, engineering and business innovation. The new HPE Apollo 6000 Gen10, HPE SGI 8600 and HPE Apollo 10 Series systems are workload-optimized to deliver faster, more efficient insights while reducing vulnerability to cyber-attacks and improving economic control.

The explosive growth in data coupled with increasingly complex HPC and AI algorithms is fueling demand for scalable processing performance. This requires systems that can maximize compute performance, agility, security and flexibility while reducing energy consumption and space utilization, and expertise to manage future technology investment planning.

“Today, customer’s HPC requirements go beyond superior performance and efficiency,” said Bill Mannel, Vice President and General Manager, HPC and AI solutions, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “They are also increasingly considering security, agility and cost control. With today’s announcements, we are addressing these considerations and delivering optimized systems, infrastructure management and services capabilities that provide A New Compute Experience.”

To help customers meet these needs, HPE is announcing the following:

New Optimized Systems for Extreme Compute Performance

HPE SGI 8600 System –  The first co-created system since HPE acquired SGI, the HPE SGI 8600 is a liquid cooled petascale system, based on the legacy SGI ICE XA architecture, purpose-built to solve the most complex scientific, engineering and national security challenges and:

• Delivers industry’s fastest parallel processing performance¹
• Scales to more than 10,000 nodes without additional switches using integrated switches and hypercube technology²
• Offers more choice and flexibility based on industry standards

HPE Apollo 6000 Gen10 System – The next generation of HPE’s large commercial, air-cooled, HPC platform was redesigned to deliver over 300 teraflops per rack, higher rack-scale efficiency and exceptional price performance. The HPE Apollo 6000 Gen10 is also the most secure HPC system in the world³ leveraging a unique “silicon root of trust” technology for security threat protection. Key new capabilities of this system include: