India, Oct. 1 -- HPE has secured a USD 1.2 billion order from cloud infrastructure provider Vultr to deploy AMD Helios AI Rack by HPE systems across its United States data centres, marking HPE's first customer order for the new rack-scale AI platform.

The deployment combines AMD-accelerated compute with HPE Juniper Networking scale-up Ethernet switching, direct liquid cooling and deployment services to support large-scale model training and inference workloads. Each Helios rack integrates 72 AMD Instinct MI455X GPUs with AMD EPYC "Venice" CPUs, AMD Pensando Vulcano AI network interface cards and AMD ROCm software.

The order provides an early commercial deployment of the integrated AI infrastructure strategy HPE outlined at HPE Discover ...