Key Takeaways

• Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced new servers designed to support large artificial intelligence (AI) projects.

• The company said its ProLiant Compute XD685 is meant to address the needs of large AI model builders, including governments and enterprise clients.

• It's powered by the new fifth-generation EPYC processors and Instinct MI325X accelerators from Advanced Micro Devices.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced new servers designed to support artificial intelligence (AI) clusters used for tasks like training large language models.

The company said its ProLiant Compute XD685 is meant to address the needs of large AI model builders, including governments and enterprise clients.

The system is powered by the new fifth-generation EPYC processors and Instinct MI325X accelerators from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which the chipmaker unveiled Thursday at its Advancing AI event.

The ProLiant Compute XD685 is available to order now, and will become generally available in the first quarter of 2025, HP Enterprise said.

New AI Products Could Boost HPE's Position in the AI Boom

HP Enterprise could stand to benefit from the growing demand for powerful AI server racks, due in large part to its liquid cooling technology, Bank of America analysts said Tuesday, ahead of the announcement. Larger, more dense data centers require liquid cooling to maintain their temperature.

“As computing moves to larger scale clusters, we expect HPE to benefit from their unique history to deploy large scale systems at scale,” the analysts said.

Shares of HP Enterprise slid 1.5% to $20.54 Thursday, but are up over 20% for 2024 so far.

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