HPE Private Cloud AI – AI for everyone

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In the era of digital transformation and growing demand for advanced technologies, companies must seek ways to efficiently manage their resources and innovate. In June 2024, during the annual HPE Discover event, HPE and NVIDIA announced a unique solution called HPE Private Cloud AI. This comprehensive system offers numerous benefits for clients implementing AI-based applications. In this article, we will present the key advantages of HPE Private Cloud AI.

In the era of digital transformation and growing demand for advanced technologies, companies must seek ways to efficiently manage their resources and innovate. In June 2024, during the annual HPE Discover event, HPE and NVIDIA announced a unique solution called HPE Private Cloud AI. This comprehensive system offers numerous benefits for clients implementing AI-based applications. In this article, we will present the key advantages of HPE Private Cloud AI.

HPE recognizes the challenges that many companies and institutions face when transitioning AI projects from the pilot phase to full deployment in real-world conditions. The HPE Private Cloud AI platform addresses these challenges by significantly reducing the time needed to achieve full productivity while ensuring scalability, security, and data privacy. Utilizing HPE Private Cloud AI guarantees that models and tools for creating AI-based applications can be effectively used to deliver business value.

HPE Private Cloud AI offers a turnkey solution, including AI-optimized systems, enterprise-grade resource control, and ready-made application templates, such as for creating custom virtual assistants. It also supports a wide range of AI workloads with hardware configurations tailored to the needs of enterprises of various sizes, from small to very large.

Thanks to HPE Private Cloud AI, companies can bring innovations to market faster. The integrated infrastructure and advanced data management tools allow for quicker prototyping and testing of new solutions. This, in turn, translates to shorter deployment times and increased market competitiveness.

Performance and Scalability

HPE Private Cloud AI ensures exceptional performance through integration with the latest NVIDIA computing technologies, including GPU accelerators. This combination enables the processing of massive amounts of data in a short time, which is crucial for advanced AI and machine learning (ML) applications. Users of this solution can easily scale their resources according to current needs, allowing for flexible adaptation of infrastructure to changing requirements.

Process, Management, and Data Access Optimization

The platform provides secure and unified access to data, enabling collaboration between different teams and improving the performance of AI-based applications. It also ensures data privacy and control, which is essential for compliance with management and regulatory requirements. HPE Private Cloud AI offers advanced tools for workflow management and optimization, which are critical for AI and ML applications. This allows companies to efficiently organize their tasks, speeding up the implementation of AI and ML projects. Integrated data management solutions and process automation enable better resource utilization and reduce the time needed to deploy new applications.

Modern applications require a flexible approach to managing both IT infrastructure and software. This is expected by both those responsible for managing companies or institutions and specialists in creating and maintaining applications. This is provided by the HPE GreenLake platform, from which clients can easily perform all tasks aimed at both maintaining the system and deploying AI-based applications.

Data Security and Privacy

Nowadays, data security is a priority for every company and institution. HPE Private Cloud AI offers advanced security features that protect data from unauthorized access and cyberattacks. Data privacy is ensured by the ability to store and process data in a private cloud, minimizing the risks associated with security breaches.

Support and Partnership with NVIDIA

Today, NVIDIA is not just about GPU accelerators but also a vast and ever-growing ecosystem focused on AI and machine learning development. HPE's collaboration with NVIDIA provides clients with access to the latest technologies and innovations in AI and ML. This partnership ensures that HPE Private Cloud AI solutions are always top-notch and meet the latest industry standards. Clients benefit from continuous technical support and updates, ensuring reliable system operation and access to all technological advancements that NVIDIA regularly releases to the market (e.g., machine learning models and ready-made application templates).

AI Services and Lifecycle Management

HPE offers a comprehensive set of AI services to speed up the implementation and success of AI programs. Key services include:

• Advisory and consultation: Identifying use cases and aligning them with business goals.
• Design and planning: Creating full-stack solutions, including hardware and software.
• Deployment and integration: Implementing the AI platform and integrating it with existing IT ecosystems.
• Optimization: Continuously improving performance, managing models, and ensuring compliance.

Sustainability and 'as-a-Service' Model

HPE places a strong emphasis on sustainability and energy efficiency in its solutions. HPE Private Cloud AI is designed to minimize energy consumption and reduce the carbon footprint. This allows companies to achieve their sustainability goals while benefiting from advanced computing technologies.

One of the biggest advantages of HPE Private Cloud AI is an 'as-a-Service' model option, which offers flexibility and cost optimization. Companies can utilize advanced computing resources and pay only for what they actually use. This allows for better budget management and allocation of funds to other key needs.

Components of HPE Private Cloud AI

The HPE and NVIDIA solution offers scalable starting points and delivers advanced capabilities through HPE GreenLake Cloud. This flexibility allows enterprises to secure their AI investments for the future and adapt to changing needs.

HPE Private Cloud AI is an advanced solution that combines the latest hardware and software technologies to provide an efficient, flexible, and secure environment for data processing and AI and machine learning (ML) project execution. Below is a detailed description of the components.

The entire solution includes the following components:

• Management, monitoring, expansion – provided by the HPE GreenLake platform
• Networking – "Top of rack" switches, management switches (ILO, Storage Mgmt, etc.):
  • NVIDIA 4700M or 4600CM x 2
  • Aruba 6300M x 2
• Control nodes – ensure hardware management and control, connection to GreenLake/DSCC (Data Services Cloud Control) platform
  • DL 325 Gen11 x 3
• AI Worker Nodes – responsible for AI software, other client workloads:
  • DL380a Gen11 (max. 8 in the largest configuration) with GPU accelerators from NVIDIA (L40S or H100NVL GPUs)
• Storage – provided by the HPE GreenLake for File Storage system (File/Object)
• AI and ML software – HPE AI Essentials along with HPE Ezmeral Unified Analytics, NVIDIA AI Enterprise software

Use Cases

Generative AI, a subset of AI, allows the creation of new content based on information provided to the model. It is perceived as a transformative technology by various industries. For this reason, AI-based applications are used in different sectors, including energy, banking, finance, transportation, retail, eCommerce, industry, and public institutions. The benefits of using artificial intelligence include increased productivity, content monetization, workflow optimization, and improved customer service.

HPE Private Cloud AI is primarily intended as a platform to accelerate the deployment and operation of AI applications through a complete solution for inference and fine-tuning existing AI models. The HPE solution allows the deployment of generative AI-based applications across various industries.

Application areas in specific sectors:

• Financial services: fraud detection, credit application automation, market research.
• Healthcare: personalized treatment, drug discovery and development, AI-assisted diagnostics.
• Public sector: automated public safety, citizen engagement chatbots, cybersecurity.
• Retail: personalized recommendations, dynamic forecasting, theft prevention.

Examples of AI-based applications:

• Intelligent virtual assistants - AI chatbots with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI vision, and code generation. Enhanced AI chatbots with RAG include model selection, deployment, and optimization.
• Automation – systems for task and workflow automation, corporate AI management processes, event and incident management applications based on AI.
• Content and product creation – applications for content creation for sales and marketing, internal communication and knowledge management, AI-based product development and prototyping systems.

Summary

HPE Private Cloud AI is a comprehensive solution that offers numerous benefits for companies and institutions aiming to effectively manage their resources and innovate using artificial intelligence and machine learning. Performance, scalability, security, sustainability, cost flexibility, technical support, and accelerated innovation processes are just some of the advantages of its implementation. With HPE Private Cloud AI, companies can achieve new levels of performance and efficiency, allowing them to better adapt to dynamically changing market requirements.

You can read more about HPE Private Cloud AI here. We also encourage you to watch a recording demonstrating the operation of this solution.