Just yesterday we saw the most important news from the Discover 2023 event that HPE held in Las Vegas. One of the highlights of the event was the collaboration between the American giant and Aleph Alphaand one of the central pillars that will enable efficient and effective collaboration between both parties will be the new HPE Apollo 6500 Gen10 Plus high-performance computing systems, as well as the HPE ProLiant DL385 servers.
At the hardware level, the HPE Apollo 6500 Gen10 Plus are a true prodigy in terms of power, thanks to their configuration with up to eight NVIDIA A100 graphics accelerators with 80 GB of graphics memory each and in SMX4 format. Each of these graphics accelerators offers a power of 155.92 TFLOPs in TF32, and can reach 311.84 TFLOPs in BF16.
These devices can be configured with up to two high-performance AMD EPYC processors with 64 cores and 128 threads eachand have high versatility in terms of total memory and storage capacity, which allows the configuration of both components to be adapted based on each use case.
In terms of power and flexibility, its value is beyond doubt, but we must also highlight the weight of the HPE Machine Learning Development Environment, based on the “Determined Training Platform”which is open source, speeds time to production and eliminates the need to write infrastructure code, making it easier to configure, manage, secure, and share AI compute blocks.
According to the Top500 project, the data center used by Aleph Alpha ranks at number 72 on the list of the 500 most powerful teamsand based on the official data we have, we know that it is being used at almost 100% of its capacity, which means that optimal use is being made of it.
Lutz Kirchner, CIO/CTO of Alpha Layer GTS GmbH, has commented that this hardware is so powerful and so flexible that they can perform a wide variety of workloads automatically in just a few minutes, he has highlighted the reliability and performance of EPYC processors and has said that thanks to AMD and HPE they have been able to improve their work capacity and be more competitive.
