HPE details Vera Rubin blades for next-generation Cray

HPE details Vera Rubin blades for next-generation Cray

By Dan Robinson
Publication Date: 2025-11-13 14:00:00

HPE’s next-generation Cray supercomputing platform will offer a choice of compute nodes powered by Nvidia’s Vera Rubin or AMD’s upcoming Venice Epyc CPUs, or a combination of both.

The HPE Cray Supercomputing GX5000, some details of which were revealed last monthis the next version of the company’s architecture for high-performance computing (HPC) systems.

On Thursday, the company revealed details of three computing blades that will be offered initially, the server nodes that will fill the liquid-cooled computing racks of any future deployment, new management tools and two new supercomputers for German research organizations.

None of the new kits are expected to be available until early 2027, except for the Cray Supercomputing Storage Systems K3000 announced last month, which will ship in early 2026.