AMD (AMD) has expanded its partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to build open, rack-scale artificial intelligence infrastructure for high-performance computing and to advance Sovereign AI research.
HPE will become one of the first system providers to adopt AMD’s Helios rack-scale AI architecture. It will integrate a purpose-built HPE Juniper Networking scale-up switch in collaboration with Broadcom (AVGO), the companies announced today. The system is designed to simplify the deployment of larger-scale AI clusters.
“With ‘Helios’, we’re taking that collaboration further, bringing together the full stack of AMD compute technologies and HPE’s system innovation to deliver an open, rack-scale AI platform that drives new levels of efficiency, scalability, and breakthrough performance for our customers in the AI era,” said AMD CEO Lisa Su.
“With the introduction of the new AMD ‘Helios’ and our purpose-built HPE scale-up networking solution, we are providing our cloud service provider customers with faster deployments, greater flexibility, and reduced risk in how they scale AI computing in their businesses,” added HPE CEO Anotnio Neri.
The platform utilizes AMD Instinct MI455X GPUs, AMD EPYC Venice CPUs and AMD Pensando Vulcano NICs for scale-out networking.
Helios is also being used to power Herder, a new supercomputer for the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart in Germany.
“Our scientific user community requires that we continue to support traditional applications of HPC for numerical simulation,” said Center Director Michael Resch. “At the same time, we are seeing growing interest in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Herder’s system architecture will enable us to support both of these approaches, while also giving our users the ability to develop and benefit from new kinds of hybrid HPC/AI workflows.”
The new supercomputer is expected to go online by the end of 2027.