HPE Announces Shipment of Its First NVIDIA Grace Blackwell System
February 13 2025 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
GB200 NVL72 featuring industry-leading direct liquid cooling now
available
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) announced today that it
has shipped its first NVIDIA Blackwell family-based solution, the
NVIDIA GB200 NVL72. This rack-scale system by HPE is designed to
help service providers and large enterprises quickly deploy very
large, complex AI clusters with advanced, direct liquid cooling
solutions to optimize efficiency and performance.
“AI service providers and large enterprise model builders are
under tremendous pressure to offer scalability, extreme
performance, and fast time-to-deployment,” said Trish Damkroger,
senior vice president and general manager of HPC & AI
Infrastructure Solutions, HPE. “As builders of the world’s top
three fastest systems with direct liquid cooling, HPE offers
customers lower cost per token training and best-in-class
performance with industry-leading services expertise.”
The NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 features shared-memory, low-latency
architecture with the latest GPU technology designed for extremely
large AI models of over a trillion parameters, in one memory space.
GB200 NVL72 offers seamless integration of NVIDIA CPUs, GPUs,
compute and switch trays, networking, and software, bringing
together extreme performance to address heavily parallelizable
workloads, like generative AI (GenAI) model training and
inferencing, along with NVIDIA software applications.
“Engineers, scientists and researchers need cutting-edge liquid
cooling technology to keep up with increasing power and compute
requirements,” said Bob Pette, vice president of enterprise
platforms at NVIDIA. “Building on continued collaboration between
HPE and NVIDIA, HPE’s first shipment of NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 will
help service providers and large enterprises efficiently build,
deploy and scale large AI clusters.”
With escalating power requirements and data center density
dynamics, HPE has five decades of liquid cooling expertise that
uniquely positions the company to help customers bring fast
deployment and an extensive infrastructure support system for
complex liquid-cooled environments. This experience has enabled HPE
to deliver eight of the top 15 supercomputers on the Green500 list,
which ranks the world’s most energy-efficient supercomputers. HPE
is recognized as a leader in direct liquid cooling technology,
having built seven of the top 10 world’s fastest
supercomputers.
Features of NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 by HPE:
- 72 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and 36 NVIDIA Grace CPUs
interconnected via high-speed NVIDIA NVLink
- Up to 13.5 TB total HBM3e memory with 576 TB/sec bandwidth
- HPE direct liquid cooling technology
Industry Leading Services and Support:
HPE is able to deliver AI solutions at a global scale, with
proven ability to support massive, custom AI clusters with superior
serviceability including expert on-site support, customized
services, sustainability services and more. HPC & AI Custom
Support Services are tailored to meet customer needs. With several
levels of SLA coverage, HPE provides enhanced incident management
with proactive support through dedicated remote engineers, ensuring
rapid installation and faster time-to-value. Available services
include:
- Onsite engineering resources: Comprehensive on-site support
through highly trained resident engineers who work closely with a
customer’s IT teams to ensure optimal system performance and
availability.
- Performance and benchmarking engagements: Industry-leading team
of experts to fine tune solutions throughout the life of a
system.
- Sustainability services: Energy and emissions reporting,
sustainability workshops, and resource monitoring to reduce
environmental impact.
The newly shipped NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 by HPE is one of a wide
array of high-performance computing and supercomputing systems that
address every use case for GenAI, scientific discovery, and other
compute-intensive workloads. Learn more about our compute and
supercomputing systems and other solutions in the NVIDIA AI
Computing by HPE portfolio.
About Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) is a global technology
leader focused on developing intelligent solutions that allow
customers to capture, analyze, and act upon data seamlessly. The
company innovates across networking, hybrid cloud, and AI to help
customers develop new business models, engage in new ways, and
increase operational performance. For more information, visit:
www.hpe.com.
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