HPE and NVIDIA expand AI Factory for agentic systems

At HPE Discover Las Vegas, NVIDIA and HPE expanded HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA to support enterprises moving agentic AI into production. HPE Private Cloud AI will add the NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, combining NVIDIA Nemotron open models, NVIDIA OpenShell secure runtime and NVIDIA NemoClaw blueprints for monitoring agent behavior, enforcing governance and running autonomous multi-agent systems.

The HPE ProLiant Compute DL394 Gen12 with the NVIDIA Vera CPU is scheduled for 2027 with HPE Private Cloud AI. Vera is positioned for agent workloads such as tool calls, orchestration and real-time data processing, while the New York Stock Exchange, Redpanda and HPE are exploring the system as an early enterprise deployment. HPE will also bring HPE Compute XD700, based on NVIDIA HGX Rubin NVL8, to HPE AI Factory, supporting up to 128 Rubin GPUs per rack.

NVIDIA Confidential Computing is extending across HPE AI Factory through HPE Services, covering HPE AI Factory at Scale, HPE Sovereign AI Factory and HPE Private Cloud AI. HPE ProLiant Compute DL380a also gained certification under the NVIDIA-Certified Systems for NVIDIA Confidential Computing program, while NVIDIA BlueField DPUs and NVIDIA DOCA add zero-trust policy enforcement, runtime threat detection and network encryption.

The portfolio now includes NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, Spectrum-X Ethernet, BlueField-3 DPUs and ConnectX-8 SuperNICs. Vera Rubin NVL72 systems will ship with NVIDIA Vera BlueField-4 DPUs, NVIDIA ConnectX-9 SuperNICs and Spectrum-X Ethernet, with NVIDIA Spectrum-6 switching delivering 1.6x higher networking performance for AI communication versus off-the-shelf Ethernet.