HPE announced today (October) their new product line. 22026) has launched its first set of next-generation, AMD-powered servers, designed to enable businesses to run AI inference and agentic AI, in addition to traditional enterprise tasks like analytics and virtualization. The company unveiled its initial four ProLiant Gen13 servers, all fueled by AMD’s sixth-generation Epyc 9006 SP7-series CPUs, nicknamed “Venice,” boasting new automated security and broadened management capabilities.
Among these, the high-end ProLiant DL585a Gen13 server, which can house up to eight GPUs and two AMD Venice processors, is tailored for strenuous enterprise tasks such as AI inference, agentic AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) model fine-tuning, and analytics, according to the company. In March 2027, the server will be launched, accommodating GPUs from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel, according to John Carter, HPE’s vice president of server product management, quality, and technical pursuit.
This news is related to the HPE interview discussing the significance of data center efficiency in today’s IT decisions. These are not the large [Nvidia Vera Rubin] NVL83 or AMD Helios scale-up systems. Carter mentioned in an interview with Data Center Knowledge, referring to this as suitable for an enterprise-level customer.
We are undertaking a novel project involving an enterprise-level AI system that utilizes an AMD-based head node for the first time. The text states that there are significant enhancements in performance, taking advantage of increased memory bandwidth and a more powerful CPU. HPE launched three server models that are primarily designed for CPU optimization.
