Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced it has been awarded a USD2 billion contract, which will be leveraged over a 10-year period, with the National Security Agency (NSA) to deliver HPE’s high performance computing (HPC) technology as a service through the HPE GreenLake platform.
The new collaboration will enable the NSA to harness rapidly growing AI and data needs more efficiently to create insights and other forecasting and analysis with optimal performance. By using HPE’s HPC solutions through the GreenLake platform, which provides fully managed, secure cloud services on-premises, the NSA will benefit from an agile, flexible, and secure platform to meet their growing data management requirements.
The new service will go into use starting in 2022.
Justin Hotard, senior vice president and general manager, HPC and Mission Critical Solutions (MCS), said: “Implementing artificial intelligence, machine learning and analytics capabilities on massive sets of data increasingly requires High Performance Computing (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 National Security Agency (NSA) is gaining industry-leading HPC solutions to tackle a range of complex data needs, but with a flexible, as a service experience.”
The new service includes a combination of HPE Apollo systems and HPE ProLiant servers, which ingest and process high volumes of data, and support deep learning and artificial intelligence capabilities.
As part of the HPE GreenLake service, the company will build and manage the complete solution that will be hosted at a QTS data centre, a hosting facility that delivers secure, compliant data centre infrastructure and robust connectivity to support scaling of operations.
According to HPE, GreenLake had more than 1200 customers representing USD4.8 billion in total contract value as of June.
