HPE Shows off AMD EPYC Venice and SP7 Supercomputing Node at SC25

HPE has its new GX5000 blade on display. We recently covered the launch of New AMD EPYC Venice Instinct MI400 processors from HPE and NVIDIA Vera Rubinbut now we can show at least the sheet centered on the CPU. As a bonus, this is one of the first AMD EPYC Venice platforms and SP7 socket systems that have been shown publicly.

HPE Showcases AMD EPYC Venice and SP7 Supercomputing Node on SC25

As a PCIe Gen6 CPU, we will see more EDSFF SSDs in future systems, as PCIe Gen5 appears to be the end of the line for 2.5″ drives. HPE has what appears to be eight E1.S drive bays on the front.

Here is the full node. You can see the bare sockets on the left, then there are sockets with the 400Gbps Slingshot NICs in the center left. On the right we see four sockets, all of them liquid cooled…