AI
HPE Walks Away From Risky $700 Million AI Deal
This probably happens more than we know, but sometimes OEMs and ODMs walk away from big deals because something is fishy. …
Cray
HPC
Why The UK Should Have Its Own Exascale AI/HPC Machine, And How
We were away on vacation at a lakeside beach in northern Michigan when we caught the news that the UK government was pulling the plug on a plan for an exascale supercomputer to be installed at the EPCC at the University of Edinburgh. …
AI
HPE Goes After Enterprise AI With Nvidia GPU Engines
This week is another major conference for a server OEM, and that must mean it is another time for an OEM to announce its tight partnership with AI compute engine juggernaut Nvidia. …
Compute
HPE Is Also Having Trouble Making Money With AI Servers
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has always been more interested in providing a choice of compute engines compared to Dell, which was the underdog in servers for a long time. …
AI
The AI Wave Finally Starts Lifting Dell And HPE
It is beginning to look like the Dell Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprose, the world’s two biggest original equipment manufacturers, are finally going to start benefitting from the generative AI wave, mainly because they are finally getting enough allocations of GPUs from Nvidia and AMD that they can start addressing the needs of customers who don’t happen to be among the hyperscalers and largest cloud builders. …
Connect
Why Would HPE Buy Juniper Networks?
It looks like Hewlett Packard Enterprise might be having a datacenter networking revival. …
Compute
With HPC Humming Along, HPE Awaits Its AI Boom
The ProLiant server business is down in the dumps, and the storage business is in a slump. …
AI
Cisco Guns For InfiniBand With Silicon One G200
It was a fortuitous coincidence that Nvidia was already working on massively parallel GPU compute engines for doing calculations in HPC simulations and models when the machine learning tipping point happened, and similarly, it was fortunate for InfiniBand that it had the advantage of high bandwidth, low latency, and remote direct memory access across GPUs at that same moment. …
Compute
The Balancing Act Of HPE’s Systems Business
There is perhaps no better logo for Hewlett Packard Enterprise than the box. …
Compute
What Do We Do When Compute And Memory Stop Getting Cheaper?
The IT industry, like every other industry we suppose, is in a constant state of dealing with the next bottleneck. …