Use Cases

Has your data center become an inflexible, monolithic, hard-wired, under-utilized collection of systems and complex processes that require excessive manpower to operate? The HPE Integrity Superdome 2 Server family based on a blade design, a common network fabric, comprehensive cross-domain control and advanced power and cooling management delivers a mainframe replacement. The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Converged Infrastructure (CI) delivers consolidation, modernization, shared services and business continuity initiatives by simplifying, consolidating and automating everything from the start. It provides mission-critical scalability and reliability for the most demanding applications and workloads, while supporting up to thirty-two 8 core Intel® Itanium® 9700 processors. The HPE Integrity Superdome 2 Server supports up to 8 TB of memory and has error correction code (ECC) and built-in redundancy, helping you take advantage of the performance benefits of Itanium processors.

Are you looking for a 2U ultra-dense and rack-scale system providing the right balance of capacity, performance, and security for your data storage intensive workloads?

The HPE Apollo 4200 Gen10 server offers an architecture optimized for Big Data Analytics, Software-Defined Storage, backup and archive, and other data storage intensive workloads. Its unique, easily serviceable 2U design saves data center space with up to 28 LFF or 54 SFF hot-plug drives. It delivers accelerated performance with a superior bandwidth and balanced architecture, Intel® Xeon® Processors, and NVMe connected SSDs. The focus on security extends from FIPS 140-2 Level 1 validated storage controllers down to the system silicon level, taking full advantage of HPE innovations in firmware protection, malware detection, and recovery. With GreenLake Flex Solutions and HPE Financial Services, you can combine the economic agility benefits of consumption-based IT with the performance and security of on-premise.

HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise is an enterprise-grade container orchestration platform that is designed for the containerization of both cloud-native and non-cloud-native monolithic applications with persistent data. It deploys 100% open-source Kubernetes for orchestration, provides a state-of-the-art file system and data fabric for persistent container storage, and provides enterprises with the ability to deploy AI and Analytics workloads in containers. Enterprises can now easily extend the agility and efficiency benefits of containers to more of their enterprise applications—running on either bare-metal or virtualized infrastructure, on-premises, in multiple clouds, or at the edge.

Are you looking for a Container as a Service (CaaS) solution for your SUSE® environment? SUSE CaaS Platform from HPE is an enterprise class container management solution that enables IT and development operations professionals to more easily deploy, manage, and scale container-based applications and services. Enterprises can reduce application delivery cycle times and improve their business responsiveness. The SUSE CaaS Platform from HPE helps you achieve faster time to value, simplify management and control of your container platform, and increase your return on investment (ROI).

Does your HPC organization need to develop code in-house?

HPE Cray Supercomputing Programming Environment Software offers your programmers a complete set of tools for developing, porting, debugging, and tuning of their code so they can develop applications and bring innovations to the market faster. Save time by simplifying the transition to varying hardware architectures and configurations by automatically applying optimizations on HPC applications that use existing programming models with a simple recompile. HPE Cray Supercomputing Programming Environment Software provides a future-ready solution at a reduced cost with built-in languages, models, libraries, and tools.

Is your HPC networking solution able to meet your converged workload needs for today and tomorrow?

HPE Slingshot provides a modern, high-performance interconnect for HPC and AI clusters that delivers high-bandwidth and low-latency for HPC, ML, and analytics applications by bringing together the specialized requirements of HPC-optimized fabrics with the ubiquity of Ethernet. This delivers a converged infrastructure with high-performance on both HPC simulation codes and native IP applications, with efficient scalable access to data sources.

Building on Cray's specialized silicon, HPE Slingshot delivers consistent performance and low latency under load and at scale. This prepares you to efficiently service increasingly diverse users taking advantage of your HPC resources, and do so without overprovisioning bandwidth or deploying multiple systems to avoid congestion on your most demanding workloads.

The HPE Networking Comware Switch Series 5900 are high-density, low-latency top-of-rack (ToR) switches suited for deployment at the access layer and management network of medium-sized and large enterprise data centers.

To meet the increased demand for virtualization, scalability, and programmability, these switches provide high-performance switching with low latency and a user-friendly operating system (OS) Comware v7. HPE Intelligent Resilient Fabric (IRF) helps create simpler, flatter, and more agile networks by combining multiple physical switches into a logical device. Network and security features, coupled with dual, redundant hot-swappable power supplies, provide investment protection, reliability, and availability, and allow advanced chassis power management. These switches also provide network visibility through multi-vendor network management with HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC).

Do you need an operating system specifically designed to run demanding HPC applications?
HPE Cray Operating System is a suite of high-performance software designed to run large, complex applications at scale.
Based on standard SUSE Enterprise Linux, the software provides many features designed to improve application efficiency, reliability, management, and extend data access.

HPE InfoSight for Servers combines the machine learning and predictive analytics of HPE InfoSight with the health and performance monitoring of Active Health System (AHS) and HPE Integrated Lights Out (iLO) to optimize performance and predict and prevent problems. HPE InfoSight for Servers nearly eliminates wasted time and headaches by transforming how infrastructure is managed and supported. AHS is like a “flight recorder” for your server that provides continuous, proactive health monitoring and recording thousands of system parameters and diagnostic telemetry data 24x7 on the server. HPE InfoSight for Servers analyzes the telemetry data from AHS to derive insights from the behaviors of the install base to provide recommendations to resolve problems and improve performance. iLO Amplifier Pack functions as an on-premise aggregator and transmitter for HPE InfoSight for servers.

The HPE Storage Rack-mount Kits (formerly known as HPE StoreEver Rack-mount Kits) provide a high-density, rack-mountable tape drive solution for SAS backup and archiving applications in a 1U rack-mount kit. The 1U HPE StoreEver Rack-mount Kit accommodates up to two half-height internal SAS tape drives with a maximum capacity of 90 TB (2.5:1 compression) using two HPE StoreEver LTO-9 Ultrium 45000 drives.