Ampere’s Altra processors are designed primarily for cloud service providers, which is why the company offers systems based on their customers such as Alibaba and Oracle. But as the company gains popularity, it wants its platforms to be accessible to a wider audience. To do this, it needs to partner with major server manufacturers, and from the third quarter HPE will offer ProLiant machines powered by Ampere’s Altra processors with up to 128 cores.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s ProLiant RL Gen11, powered by Ampere’s Altra (up to 80 cores) and Altra Max (up to 128 cores) processors, is a 1U single socket machine. They can store up to 4TB of memory using 16 DDR4 memory modules, up to 10 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs and two M.2 SSDs. In addition, the machine can hold three PCIe Gen4 expansion cards and two additional OCP 3.0 boards.
Unlike companies like Foxconn or Wiwynn, which target their Ampere Altra-based machines primarily to cloud service providers, HPE positions its ProLiant RL Gen11 servers for cloud-based enterprises. Meanwhile, because the ProLiant RL Gen11 is an enterprise server machine, it comes with HPE’s iLO with the company’s silicone-trusted traditional HPE server management and OpenBMC-enabled open source deployment. So the ProLiant RL300 Gen11 is naturally fully supported by HPE.
However, given the nature of Ampere’s Altra processors, HPE’s ProLiant RL Gen11 is not exactly a competitor to the company’s x86 servers (at least not for classic enterprise applications), and the manufacturer expects owners of these machines to run cloud applications adapted for them. Hand processors. Ampere claims that its Altra CPUs can offer 2.5 to 3 times higher performance than competing systems at half the power; however, this statement is quite general. It depends on the actual loads and must be verified by independent testing.
HPE will begin selling its Properant RL300 Gen11 servers based on Ampere’s Altra and Altra Max processors in the third quarter of 2022. The machines will be available worldwide for purchase or as a service through HPE GreenLake. The price of the machine is unclear, but it will undoubtedly depend on the exact configuration.
HPE will only offer a single-socket Ampere Altra in its ProLiant range for scaling environments. However, the company hinted that it would eventually offer machines with a larger number of processors.
One of the first customers to adopt the new machine will be CloudSigma, a provider of cloud IaaS and PaaS with advanced hybrid hosting solutions in Europe, the US, APAC and the Middle East in more than 20 locations.
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