As part of the HPE GreenLake service, the Houston-based enterprise IT company will develop and manage a new solution for the National Security Agency, which will be hosted at a QTS data centre
US NSA awards $2bn contract for HPC solutions to Hewlett Packard Enterprise. (Credit: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has won a 10-year contract worth $2bn from the US National Security Agency (NSA) to provide high-performance computing (HPC) technology as a service via the HPE GreenLake platform.
The new service will go into use starting from next year.
By using the HPC technology, the NSA will be able to harness the quickly growing artificial intelligence (AI) and data requirements more efficiently, said HPE. This will help the agency to create insights as well as other forecasting and analysis with optimal performance.
The NSA will get fully managed, secure cloud services on-premises by the HPC solutions provided through the HPE GreenLake platform. With the services, the NSA is expected to benefit from an agile, flexible, and secure platform to cope up with its increasing data management needs.
The agency will be provided with a combination of HPE Apollo systems and HPE ProLiant servers. According to HPE, the servers ingest and process large volumes of data, and support capabilities in deep learning and AI.
HPE HPC and mission critical solutions senior vice president and general manager Justin Hotard said: “Implementing artificial intelligence, machine learning and analytics capabilities on massive sets of data increasingly requires HPC systems.
“Customers are demanding HPC capabilities on their most data-intensive projects combined with easy, simple, and agile management.
“By using the HPE GreenLake platform, which delivers secure on-premises solutions as a service, the NSA is gaining industry-leading HPC solutions to tackle a range of complex data needs, but with a flexible, as a service experience.”
HPE stated that it will develop and manage the complete solution as part of the HPE GreenLake service. The solution will be hosted at a QTS data centre, which is said to provide secure, compliant data centre infrastructure as well as strong connectivity to support scaling of operations.
Last month, HPE alongside the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) had unveiled a new testbed supercomputer called Polaris.
The supercomputer will help in preparing critical workloads for future exascale systems that will provide up to four times faster performance than the existing supercomputers of ANL.