Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has shipped its first NVIDIA Blackwell family-based solution, the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72.
This rackscale 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 optimise efficiency and performance.
“As the demand for faster and more efficient AI workload processing surges across Asia, the need for advanced liquid cooling technology has never been greater to support the region’s rapidly growing power and computing requirements,” said HPE’s Joseph Yang. “The new NVIDIA Grace Blackwell system is designed to help scale AI workloads, maximise performance, and unlock AI’s full transformative potential, while addressing critical infrastructure challenges and energy efficiency needs.”
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 integration of NVIDIA CPUs, GPUs, compute and switch trays, networking, and software, bringing together extreme performance to address heavily parallelisable workloads, like generative AI 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 NVIDIA VP of Enterprise Platforms Bob Pette. “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 centre 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 recognised 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 include:
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72 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs and 36 NVIDIA Grace CPUs interconnected via high-speed NVIDIA NVLink;
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Up to 13.5 TB total HBM3e memory with 576 TB/sec bandwidth; and
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HPE direct liquid cooling technology industry leading services and support.
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.
