HPE Launches New Purpose-Built Solutions – Powered by AMD – to Accelerate Training for Large, Complex AI Models
HPE has unveiled the HPE ProLiant Compute XD685, a new system designed for complex AI model training tasks. This solution is powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct MI325X accelerators, optimized for high-performance, secure, and energy-efficient AI clusters. The system supports eight AMD Instinct MI325X accelerators and two AMD EPYC CPUs, offering both air and direct liquid cooling options.
Key features include:
- A modular, compact 5U chassis for quick deployment
- Flexibility to accommodate various GPUs, CPUs, and cooling methods
- Integration of HPE iLO for secure management
- Optional direct liquid cooling for improved efficiency
- Support for HPE Performance Cluster Manager
The HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 is available to order now and will be generally available in Q1 2025.
HPE ha svelato il HPE ProLiant Compute XD685, un nuovo sistema progettato per attività complesse di addestramento di modelli AI. Questa soluzione è alimentata da processori AMD EPYC di 5ª generazione e acceleratori AMD Instinct MI325X, ottimizzati per cluster AI ad alte prestazioni, sicuri ed energeticamente efficienti. Il sistema supporta otto acceleratori AMD Instinct MI325X e due CPU AMD EPYC, offrendo sia opzioni di raffreddamento ad aria che a liquido diretto.
Le caratteristiche principali includono:
- Unchassis modulari e compatti da 5U per un rapido dispiegamento
- Flessibilità per ospitare vari GPU, CPU e metodi di raffreddamento
- Integrazione di HPE iLO per una gestione sicura
- Raffreddamento a liquido diretto opzionale per migliorare l'efficienza
- Supporto per HPE Performance Cluster Manager
Il HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 è già disponibile per ordini e sarà disponibile in generale nel Q1 del 2025.
HPE ha presentado el HPE ProLiant Compute XD685, un nuevo sistema diseñado para tareas complejas de entrenamiento de modelos de IA. Esta solución está impulsada por procesadores AMD EPYC de 5ª generación y aceleradores AMD Instinct MI325X, optimizados para clústeres de IA de alto rendimiento, seguros y energéticamente eficientes. El sistema soporta ocho aceleradores AMD Instinct MI325X y dos CPU AMD EPYC, ofreciendo opciones de refrigeración por aire y refrigeración líquida directa.
Las características clave incluyen:
- Un chasis modular y compacto de 5U para un despliegue rápido
- Flexibilidad para acomodar varias GPU, CPU y métodos de refrigeración
- Integración de HPE iLO para una gestión segura
- Refrigeración líquida directa opcional para mejorar la eficiencia
- Soporte para HPE Performance Cluster Manager
El HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 ya está disponible para pedidos y estará disponible en general en el Q1 de 2025.
HPE는 복잡한 AI 모델 훈련 작업을 위해 설계된 새 시스템인 HPE ProLiant Compute XD685를 공개했습니다. 이 솔루션은 5세대 AMD EPYC 프로세서와 AMD Instinct MI325X 가속기에 의해 구동되며, 고성능, 안전하고 에너지 효율적인 AI 클러스터를 위해 최적화되었습니다. 이 시스템은 여덟 개의 AMD Instinct MI325X 가속기와 두 개의 AMD EPYC CPU를 지원하며, 공기 및 직접 액체 냉각 옵션을 제공합니다.
주요 기능은 다음과 같습니다:
- 신속한 배치를 위한 모듈형 컴팩트 5U 섀시
- 다양한 GPU, CPU 및 냉각 방법을 수용할 수 있는 유연성
- 안전한 관리를 위한 HPE iLO 통합
- 효율성을 높이기 위한 선택적 직접 액체 냉각
- HPE 성능 클러스터 관리자를 위한 지원
HPE ProLiant Compute XD685는 현재 주문 가능하며 2025년 1분기 일반 판매될 예정입니다.
HPE a dévoilé le HPE ProLiant Compute XD685, un nouveau système conçu pour des tâches complexes d'entraînement de modèles d'IA. Cette solution est alimentée par des processeurs AMD EPYC de 5e génération et des accélérateurs AMD Instinct MI325X, optimisés pour des clusters d'IA à haute performance, sécurisés et économes en énergie. Le système prend en charge huit accélérateurs AMD Instinct MI325X et deux CPU AMD EPYC, offrant des options de refroidissement par air et de refroidissement liquide direct.
Les principales caractéristiques incluent :
- Un châssis modulaire et compact de 5U pour un déploiement rapide
- Souplesse pour accommoder différentes GPU, CPU et méthodes de refroidissement
- Intégration de HPE iLO pour une gestion sécurisée
- Refroidissement liquide direct optionnel pour une efficacité améliorée
- Support pour HPE Performance Cluster Manager
Le HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 est désormais disponible à la commande et sera généralement disponible au premier trimestre 2025.
HPE hat den HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 vorgestellt, ein neues System, das für komplexe Schulungsaufgaben von KI-Modellen entwickelt wurde. Diese Lösung wird mit 5. Generation AMD EPYC-Prozessoren und AMD Instinct MI325X-Beschleunigern betrieben, die für hochleistungsfähige, sichere und energieeffiziente KI-Cluster optimiert sind. Das System unterstützt acht AMD Instinct MI325X-Beschleuniger und zwei AMD EPYC-CPUs und bietet sowohl Luft- als auch direkte Flüssigkeitskühlungsoptionen.
Zu den Hauptmerkmalen gehören:
- Ein modulares, kompaktes 5U-Gehäuse für eine schnelle Bereitstellung
- Flexibilität, um verschiedene GPUs, CPUs und Kühlmethoden unterzubringen
- Integration von HPE iLO für eine sichere Verwaltung
- Optionale direkte Flüssigkeitskühlung zur Verbesserung der Effizienz
- Support für HPE Performance Cluster Manager
Der HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 kann jetzt bestellt werden und wird im 1. Quartal 2025 allgemein verfügbar sein.
- HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 supports eight AMD Instinct MI325X accelerators and two AMD EPYC CPUs for optimum AI performance
- The system offers both air and direct liquid cooling options for energy efficiency
- Modular, compact 5U chassis design shortens time to market for solutions
- Integration of HPE iLO provides secure management capabilities
- HPE ProLiant servers with AMD EPYC processors have achieved 48 world records, including 30 new ones
- The HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 will not be generally available until the first quarter of 2025
Insights
The HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 represents a significant advancement in AI infrastructure, specifically tailored for large language model training. Key features include:
- Support for 8 AMD Instinct™ MI325X accelerators and 2 AMD EPYC™ CPUs, providing exceptional parallel computing power
- Flexible cooling options with both air and direct liquid cooling, addressing energy efficiency concerns
- Integration of HPE iLO for enhanced security management
- A modular 5U chassis design that improves rack density and deployment flexibility
This solution aims to meet the growing demand for high-performance AI training capabilities among AI service providers, governments and large enterprises. The focus on speed, efficiency and scalability positions HPE competitively in the rapidly evolving AI infrastructure market.
However, the 2025 availability date is a significant drawback, potentially allowing competitors to gain market share in the interim. This long lead time might impact HPE's ability to capitalize on the current AI boom, despite the system's impressive specifications.
While the HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 showcases HPE's innovation in AI infrastructure, its financial impact is uncertain due to several factors:
- The 2025 release date significantly delays potential revenue generation, which may disappoint investors expecting more immediate returns from AI initiatives.
- No pricing information is provided, making it difficult to assess potential margins or market competitiveness.
- The announcement of 48 world records for HPE ProLiant servers with AMD EPYC processors demonstrates strong performance, which could drive sales of existing products.
HPE's
Overall, while the technology appears promising, the delayed availability creates uncertainty about HPE's ability to capitalize on current AI market momentum.
- New HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 supports eight AMD Instinct™ MI325X accelerators and two AMD EPYC™ CPUs to deliver optimum performance and flexibility to efficiently build and train large language models
- Purpose-built solutions offer both air and direct liquid cooling options for energy efficiency and integrate HPE iLO for secure management
- HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 addresses the needs of AI service providers and an emerging class of large model builders including governments and large commercial customers
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.
- Run the largest AI models with fewer GPUs: Powered by AMD CDNA™ 3 architecture, AMD Instinct™ MI325X accelerators offer leading AI performance and efficiency for training and inference tasks. The MI325X accelerators feature leadership HBM3E memory capacity with 6 TB/s of memory bandwidth optimizes performance and lowers TCO.
- Improve efficiency with optional direct liquid cooling: The direct liquid cooling option helps organizations meet escalating power requirements, advance sustainability goals and lower operational costs—all by leveraging HPE’s decades of expertise and market leadership in deploying the world’s largest liquid-cooled IT environments.
- Accelerate deployment and operations: HPE Services offers the full range of customizable and flexible services to install and deploy large AI clusters anywhere in the world with stability and operational excellence. Expert services build, integrate, validate, fully test and customize solutions in the factory, facilitating quicker onsite deployment.
- Protect against growing security threats: Securely manage HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 systems with HPE iLO, delivering seamless management and built-in, industry-leading security innovation that starts in the supply chain and is rooted in the silicon.
- Optimize rack density: The HPE-designed 5U server chassis uses a compact 8-nodes-per-rack arrangement to maximize rack density for 8-way GPU systems. The HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 supports eight AMD Instinct™ MI325X or AMD Instinct™ MI300X accelerators, two of the latest AMD EPYC™ 9005 Series processors and air cooling or direct liquid cooling.
- Simplify manageability of large AI clusters: HPE Performance Cluster Manager is a fully integrated system management software that gets complex systems up-and-running quickly with automated setup from bare metal and keeps clusters healthy and operational with detailed telemetry, GPU stress tests, and more.
HPE also announced today that HPE ProLiant servers, featuring AMD EPYC processors, have achieved 48 world records, including 30 new world records, on the HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers using AMD EPYC 9005 Series Processors. New world records include leadership performance and power efficiency for enterprise workloads.
Availability
The HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 is available to order today through HPE and will be generally available in the first quarter of 2025.
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is the global edge-to-cloud company that helps organizations accelerate outcomes by unlocking value from all of their data, everywhere. Built on decades of reimagining the future and innovating to advance the way people live and work, HPE delivers unique, open and intelligent technology solutions as a service. With offerings spanning Cloud Services, Compute, High Performance Computing & AI, Intelligent Edge, Software, and Storage, HPE provides a consistent experience across all clouds and edges, helping customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and increase operational performance. For more information, visit: www.hpe.com.
AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Instinct, EPYC, and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241010105437/en/
Media Contact:
Victor O’Brien
victor.obrien@hpe.com
Source: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
FAQ
What are the key features of the new HPE ProLiant Compute XD685?
When will the HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 be available for purchase?
What cooling options does the HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 offer?
How many world records have HPE ProLiant servers with AMD EPYC processors achieved?
