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- On October 10, Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced the industry’s first 100% fanless direct liquid cooling system architecture to improve the energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness of large-scale AI deployments. The company presented the innovation at the Artificial Intelligence Day, which was held for members of the financial community at one of the most advanced factories for the production of AI systems.
- Next-generation HPE ProLiant servers break 48 world records, 30 new world records were achieved using AMD EPYC 9005 series processors. HPE ProLiant Compute XD685, designed for the most demanding AI workloads, is available for pre-order.
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The industry’s first 100% fanless direct liquid cooling system
Although the efficiency of new-generation accelerators has improved, energy consumption continues to increase due to the application of AI, exceeding the capabilities of traditional cooling methods.
Organizations with heavy AI workloads need to be more efficient. The best way to cool modern AI systems is direct liquid cooling. This important cooling technology has enabled HPE systems to build 7 of the top 10 supercomputers on the Green500 list, which ranks the world’s most energy-efficient supercomputers.
Building on this experience, HPE’s new 100% fanless direct liquid cooling architecture delivers cost and energy efficiency benefits. These benefits are already being reaped by sovereign AI deployments in many large-scale generative AI organizations.
“As organizations embrace the opportunities created by generative artificial intelligence, they must also pursue sustainability and sustainability goals, address growing energy needs and reduce operating costs,” said Antonio Neri, president and CEO of HPE. “The architecture we presented uses only liquid cooling, which provides greater advantages in energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness than alternative solutions on the market. In fact, this direct liquid cooling architecture provides a 90% reduction in power consumption compared to traditional air cooling systems. HPE’s experience in deploying the world’s largest liquid-cooled IT environment and our market leadership, which spans several decades, give us an excellent opportunity to continue to meet the demand for artificial intelligence.”
The system architecture is built on four pillars:
- An 8-element cooling design that includes liquid cooling for the GPU, CPU, full server blade, local storage, network fabric, rack/cabinet, pod/cluster and coolant distribution unit (CDU).
- A high-density, high-performance system that undergoes rigorous testing, is equipped with monitoring programs and is supported by on-site service for the successful implementation of these modern computing and cooling systems.
- Integrated network fabric design for massive scale integrating lower-cost and lower-power connections
- An open system that provides flexibility in the choice of accelerators.
The 100% fanless direct liquid cooling architecture provides unique benefits – including a 37% reduction in power consumption for cooling each server blade compared to hybrid direct liquid cooling. This reduces utility costs, carbon emissions and fan noise in the data center. In addition, because systems with this architecture support a higher density of server cabinets, they take up half the space.
HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers break records
HPE also announced that HPE ProLiant servers with AMD EPYC processors have broken 48 world records to date with the newly expanded HPE ProLiant Gen11 server portfolio. The latest HPE ProLiant servers, using AMD EPYC 9005 series processors, provide 35% higher performance and 25% higher energy efficiency compared to previous models and have achieved 30 world records, surpassing competitors in energy efficiency and performance in the enterprise segment, in data management, Java and virtualization.
In addition, the newly announced HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server with AMD EPYC 8004 processors, specially designed for edge environments, also achieved five new world records for performance and energy efficiency.
HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers deliver unquestionable performance for enterprise-level businesses
HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers deliver next-generation computing power and offer an intuitive cloud experience, robust design and optimization for a range of workloads. Using AMD EPYC 9005 series processors, HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers have achieved 30 world records, including:
- Virtualization – consolidation of servers and reduction of operating costs
- 10.51% performance improvement on HPE ProLiant server with AMD EPYC 9845 processor
- Data Management – Speeding up database queries to support decision making
- 41.4% better performance and 28.6% better price/performance on a dual-processor server on Microsoft® SQL Server 2025 Enterprise Edition
- 16.2% better performance on a single-processor server on Microsoft® SQL Server 2022 Enterprise Edition
- Java – optimization of programs for new use cases in various industries:
- 29.4% better Linux performance on Multi-JVM Critical-jOPS
- 24.6% better Linux performance on MultiJVM max-jOPS
- 24.6% better Linux performance on Distributed max-jOPS
- 21.6% better Linux performance on distributed critical JOPS
Optimal performance and efficiency for edge computing with the affordable, compact and reliable HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server
The recently announced HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server, specially built for various peripheral branches such as retail stores, medical clinics, banks and factory lines, also achieved 5 world records using AMD EPYC 8004 processors.
Record criteria include:
- Total Compute Performance – 8.2% higher performance than the current world record holder.
- Energy Efficiency – Better energy efficiency than the current Linux world record, resulting in lower operating costs and supporting customers on the path to sustainability.
At AMD’s Advancing AI event today, HPE also announced an expansion of its AI learning solutions with the new HPE ProLiant Compute XD685. The system is specifically designed to accelerate large-scale artificial intelligence learning, such as large language models used to build generative AI programs.
The new system supports eight AMD Instinct™ MI325X or AMD Instinct™ MI300X accelerators, two of the latest AMD EPYC 9005 series processors, and direct liquid cooling options.
HPE also offers customers industry-leading services that provide global 24/7 remote or on-site support throughout the product lifecycle, from design and development to testing and deployment.
The HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 computer can be ordered today and will be available in early 2025.
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