SC26: HPE Addresses Industry Demand for Scalable HPC Solutions with World's Fastest Hybrid Supercomputing Storage and Intelligent Rack Management

Summary:

HPE delivers new hybrid supercomputing storage configurations that offer 41% more data throughput per storage rack as compared to competitors
HPE Rack Management Controller enables intelligent liquid cooling through real-time monitoring, leak detection, automated control, and rack-level visibility

HPE introduced two new supercomputing and rack-scale innovations to help customers improve storage economics and enhance cooling efficiencies. New hybrid configurations of HPE Cray Supercomputing Storage Systems E2000 create the world’s fastest hybrid supercomputing storage, and the HPE Rack Management Controller improves cooling and power of high-density racks.“Our comprehensive portfolio, which now includes a world-leading hybrid supercomputing storage option, delivers powerful capabilities to scale, while maximizing capacity and optimizing costs,” said Trish Damkroger, SVP and GM, HPC and AI infrastructure solutions, HPE. “When making long-term investments in environments where advanced workloads are rapidly evolving, our customers want scalable, dense, and flexible systems to help them address dynamic shifts in requirements. Our comprehensive portfolio, which now includes a world-leading hybrid supercomputing storage option, delivers powerful capabilities to scale, while maximizing capacity and optimizing costs.”

HPE delivers the world’s fastest hybrid supercomputing storage
As demand for data-intensive workloads increases, prices for large SSDs have increased. To meet the needs of research institutions and national laboratories, HPE is combining flash performance with high-capacity HDD to deliver new hybrid configurations that enable customers to spend less on storage and redirect infrastructure investment toward compute node purchases, while delivering up to 41% more data throughput per storage rack.

The new hybrid configurations of HPE Cray Supercomputing Storage Systems E2000 combine SSDs with new 32-terabyte SAS-4 HDD and new SAS-4 HDD enclosures, supporting 74 or 100 drives.

Purpose-engineered for supercomputing, the new configurations deliver:

Improved storage economics: Customers can match storage performance to processing requirements, while spending 82% less than they would on a comparable all-flash system
More capacity, same data center footprint: Creating up to 32% more usable storage capacity per rack4, helping customers support growing datasets without expanding rack space
High read-and-write performance: Delivering up to 116GB per second of read throughput and 92GB per second of write throughput per rack, enabling storage to better match the needs of HPC

New intelligent rack management for HPC and AI infrastructure growth
As HPC and AI infrastructure pushes power densities to new levels, cooling efficiency and operational visibility play a critical role in supporting customers’ goals for growth. In response, the HPE Rack Management Controller is designed to enable intelligent liquid cooling through real-time monitoring, leak detection, automated control and rack-level visibility. Engineered and informed by HPE’s five decades of liquid cooling innovation, the controller helps organizations optimize cooling efficiency and facilitate the growth of high-density HPC and AI infrastructure.

The controller supports platform-specific design variants tailored to the requirements of different rack-scale systems. HPE Rack Management Controller will initially support HPE Cray Supercomputing GX5000 systems, with future extensions for AMD and Nvidia rack-scale systems.

The HPE Rack Management Controller integrates with the HPE Supercomputing Management Software suite, including Foundation for infrastructure management, Composable for resource sharing, and Observability for operational monitoring. The integration shares rack-level telemetry and control capabilities, improving visibility and making it easier to operate and expand large, liquid-cooled HPC and AI environments.

HPE continues to advance the infrastructure required for the world’s most demanding scientific, commercial, and HPC workloads. Through its proven expertise across supercomputing, storage, networking, cooling, and systems management, HPE delivers integrated platforms that help customers scale performance, improve efficiency, and accelerate innovation.

Availability

Availability for the new hybrid configurations of HPE Cray Supercomputing Storage Systems E2000 is planned for early 2027
HPE Rack Management Controller for HPE Cray Supercomputing GX systems and the Supercomputing Management Software suite will be available in March 2027. Support for AMD and Nvidia rack-scale systems will follow in June 2027