At the moment HPE introduced its new server sequence forward of Intel’s launch of its Granite Rapids-SP or Intel Xeon 6700P processors. Certain, Intel has introduced the Xeon 6 household and the Xeon 6700P, in addition to the Granite Rapids-AP Xeon 6900P sequence, however HPE needed to be forward of others and announce its new servers earlier than the chips are launched. Nonetheless, HPE is a giant OEM, so any new technology of servers is vital.
HPE ProLiant Gen12 Launched Forward of Intel Granite Rapids-SP
With this launch, HPE has numerous new servers. The primary two are single socket servers. HPE informed us they’re seeing a sluggish migration in the direction of single CPU server designs as processors get extra cores. The primary is the 1U HPE ProLiant DL320 Gen12. Word we’re purposefully dropping “Compute” from the names as a result of that’s superfluous naming.
HPE is providing lots of air or liquid cooled servers on this technology to assist with warmth.
The following is the HPE ProLiant DL340 Gen12. It is a 2U design that ought to enable for extra growth and decrease energy since it might home bigger followers. Sadly, HPE continues to be utilizing the previous observe of getting customary and high-performance heatsinks and followers. The extra fashionable pattern is to only use high-performance parts, so hopefully by the next-generation HPE will modernize this design facet.
For extra conventional twin socket servers, there’s the HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen12 within the 1U type issue. You’ll discover right here the 144 core designs. That’s for the Intel Xeon 6700E sequence.
The HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen12 is the 2U twin socket Xeon 6 server. Utilizing EDSFF this may match as much as 36 SSDs.
The HPE ProLiant DL380a Gen12 is the GPU compute for the PCIe card accelerators just like the NVLink PCIe playing cards and the NVIDIA L40S.
For tower type elements, we have now the HPE ProLiant ML350 Gen12. We final checked out this design within the HPE ProLiant ML350 Gen10 technology, however these are propular exterior of the info middle.
You’ll have seen that these have iLO 7. HPE continues to drive its distant administration answer and improve that towards the backdrop of the trade typically transferring to ASPEED chips. Nonetheless, HPE has lots of administration instruments out there that allow you to do issues like see on a map the place servers are experiencing a problem, so that’s one motive that HPE continues to go the proprietary route right here.
Ultimate Phrases
Maybe these are technically being launched with 144 core CPU help, however the true large one goes to be Granite Rapids-SP. Intel’s 8-channel DDR5 chip has most of the options of its bigger Granite Rapids-AP (Xeon 6900P series) however with smaller packaging for many who don’t wish to transfer to the 12-channel platforms. Intel mentioned that the Xeon 6700P sequence was launcing in Q1 2025 so that provides just a few extra weeks for the launch. After all, keep tuned to STH for launch protection.
