By Dan Robinson
Publication Date: 2025-12-02 17:15:00
HPE is supporting AMD’s Helios rack-scale architecture and will offer it as part of its AI portfolio next year, including a purpose-built Juniper Networks scalable switch.
Announced ahead of HPE’s Discover event in Barcelona this week, the company says it will be one of the first to offer a turnkey rack system for large-scale AI training and inference, based on AMD’s reference design.
Helios is designed to operate a rack full of nodes equipped with accelerators as if they were a single large GPU, like Nvidia’s. DGX GB200 NVL72 system, to which Helios presents itself as a rival.
As far as AMD is concerned, Helios will be a vehicle for its next-generation Instinct MI455X GPUs and its sixth-generation Epyc CPUs, codenamed Venice, both of which are due out next year, so HPE can only say that it will offer its Helios AI Rack worldwide sometime in 2026.
A slide from HPE’s online presentation…
