HPE Creates Its Own AI Stack For Large Enterprises
Summary
HPE has been banging its “AI for all” message for the past few years, echoing the “democratization of HPC” initiatives that the major OEMs have been touting for decades. HPE this week is expanding its AI software portfolio but is also leaning on its HPC hardware background – which was bolstered greatly with its $1.4 billion acquisition of supercomputer maker Cray in 2019 – by aiming to essentially take it out of the equation that enterprises calculate with when running such workloads. The vendor’s Machine Learning Development System brings together accelerated hardware and software that together can enabled model training at scale. “This is a very simplified and basic offering that allows anybody to get started.” It includes the Machine Learning Development Environment software rolled out last year and such tools as container runtime, cluster management and a training program. The company also is pulling a swarm learning technology that was developed in Hewlett Packard Labs to create a software product that organizations can use to run analytics on data in such areas as healthcare research and fraud detection.