At HPE’s big Discover event here in Las Vegas today, the company rolled out a series of news, including a high-end AI factory solution built with NVIDIA GPUs and networking targeting the exploding AI-at-scale market.
The announcements are an expansion of its NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE portfolio, a core component of which is HPE Private Cloud AI, which the company describes as an integrated turnkey AI factory offering powered by NVIDIA chips, including the flagship Blackwell GPUs.
Private Cloud AI will provide:
Support for NVIDIA Blackwell accelerated computing with HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers.
Scalability across GPU generations, including NVIDIA H200 NVL and now with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition GPUs, to support AI workloads including agentic and physical AI use cases.
Air-gapped management for organizations with strict data privacy requirements.
The latest NVIDIA AI Blueprints including the NVIDIA AI-Q Blueprint for AI agent creation and workflows.
“The integrated end-to-end solutions and services for AI factories remove the complexity of customers having to compile a full AI tech stack on their own when building a modern AI-ready data center,” HPE said.
A key component is HPE’s new Compute XD690, available in October, which supports eight NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs. HPE Performance Cluster Manager has integrated systems management and infrastructure monitoring across AI environments and scale to thousands of nodes.
The AI factory solutions utilize liquid cooling and HPE Morpheus Enterprise Software control plane.
HPE OpsRamp Software uses AI to observe AI, providing observability across Private Cloud AI and new AI factory solutions.
HPE offers HPE ProLiant Compute XD, NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and blueprints, air- and liquid-cooling technologies and advisory and professional services.
AI factory for sovereigns is for nations, governments and public sector organizations and offers additional specialized capabilities such as air-gapped management and solutions and services that enable data, technological and operational sovereignty.
HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12
HPE said its offering utilies the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory design, they can be deployed using NVIDIA GPUs, NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet networking, NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPUs, and NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.
The AI factory solution incorporates HPE Alletra Storage MP X10000, which support Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Integrating MCP with the X10000’s data intelligence is designed to accelerate data pipelines and enable AI factories, applications, and agents to process unstructured data. The cloud-native X10000 supports the NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design and offers an SDK intended to streamline unstructured data pipelines for ingestion, inferencing and training.
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HPE said it delivers more than 75 AI use cases through new Unleash AI ecosystem partners, the latest NVIDIA AI Blueprints and professional services, including software solutions for agentic AI, sovereign AI, smart cities, industrial and manufacturing applications, data governance and privacy, responsible AI, video analytics, responsible AI, security and cybersecurity.
HPE said it is collaborating with Accenture to create agentic AI solutions for financial services and procurement with an offering utilizing the Accenture AI Refinery platform, which is built on NVIDIA AI Enterprise, and deployed on HPE Private Cloud AI. HPE is applying the solution in its finance organization, looking at uses across category and sourcing strategies, spend management, strategic relationship analysis and contract obligation management. The aim is to aid AI adoption in the tightly regulated financial services industry.
“Generative, agentic and physical AI have the potential to transform global productivity and create lasting societal change, but AI is only as good as the infrastructure and data behind it. Organizations need the data, intelligence and vision to capture the AI opportunity and this makes getting the right IT foundation essential,” said Antonio Neri, president and CEO, at HPE. “HPE and NVIDIA are delivering the most comprehensive approach, joining industry-leading AI infrastructure and services to enable organizations to realize their ambitions and deliver sustainable business value.”
