HPE ProLiant Servers Deliver 48 World Records in Performance and Energy Efficiency for Enterprise Workloads

Summary:

• ProLiant servers, featuring AMD EPYC processors, achieve 48 world records ⁽¹⁾, including 30 new world records ⁽¹⁾ on the ProLiant Gen11 servers using EPYC 9005 Series processors.
• ProLiant Gen11 servers using EPYC 9005 Series processors surpass competitors in performance across data management, java, and virtualization workloads.
• Recently announced ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server, purpose-built for edge environments and using EPYC 8004 Processors, also achieved 5 new world records in compute performance and energy efficiency. ^(4,5)
• ProLiant Gen11 servers are available in select regions 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise LP (HPE) announced that ProLiant servers, featuring AMD EPYC CPUs, have achieved 48 world records to date with the recently expanded ProLiant Gen11 server portfolio.

The ProLiant servers, using EPYC 9005 Series processors, deliver up to 35% higher performance ⁽²⁾ and 25% better energy efficiency ⁽³⁾, compared to previous models, and achieved 30 world records, surpassing competitors in energy efficiency, and performance across enterprise workloads in data management, java, and virtualization.⁽¹⁾

In addition, the recently announced ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server, purpose-built for edge environments, using EPYC 8004 processors, also achieved 5 world records in performance and energy efficiency. ^(4,5)

ProLiant Gen11 servers deliver undisputed performance for enterprise
ProLiant Gen11 servers deliver next-gen compute engineered for the hybrid world and offer an intuitive cloud operating experience, trusted security by design, and optimization for a range of workloads.

Using EPYC 9005 Series processors, ProLiant Gen11 servers achieved 30 world records, which include:

• Virtualization – Drive server consolidation and lower operational costs with 10.51% better performance on an EPYC 9845-processor ProLiant server ⁽⁶⁾
• Data management – Speed up database queries on decision support workloads
  • 41.4% better performance and 28.6% better price/performance on a 2-processor server on Microsoft SQL Server 2025 Enterprise Edition ⁽⁷⁾
  • 16.2% better performance on a 1-processor server on Microsoft SQL Server 2022 Enterprise Edition ⁽⁸⁾
• Java – Optimize applications for emerging use cases across industries with a 1-processor server in the following Java benchmarks ⁽⁹⁾:
  • 29.4% better Linux performance on Multi-JVM Critical-jO/s
  • 24.6% better Linux performance on MultiJVM max-jO/s
  • 24.6% better Linux performance on Distributed max-jO/s
  • 21.6% better Linux performance on Distributed critical-jO/s

Driving optimal performance and efficiency for edge with compact, and resilient ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server

Recently announced ProLiant DL145 Gen11 server, purpose-built for diverse edge locations such as retail stores, health clinics, banks, and factory lines, also achieved 5 world records ^(4,5), using EPYC 8004 processors. World claims include:

• Overall compute performance – 8.2% higher performance than the current world record holder for optimal business value ⁽⁴⁾
• Energy efficiency – Better energy efficiency than the current Linux world record, resulting in reduced operating costs and support in helping customers achieve sustainability goals. ⁽⁵⁾

HPE expands AI training solutions with ProLiant Compute XD685

The company also announced at the AMD Advancing AI event, an expansion to its AI training solutions with the ProLiant Compute XD685. The system is purpose-built to accelerate large-scale AI training, such as Large Language Models used to create GenAI applications.

This system supports 8 Instinct MI325X or Instinct MI300X accelerators, 2 of the latest EPYC 9005 Series processors, and options for direct liquid cooling.

The company also offers customers its world services that provide global 24/7 support, remote or onsite, for the product’s entire lifecycle, from designing and developing to testing and deploying.

ProLiant Compute XD685 is orderable and will ship in early 2025. 

⁽¹⁾ 48 world records on HPE ProLiant servers using AMD EPYC processors: 
⁽²⁾ Up to 35% performance increase compared to HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers based on 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors. SPEC and the names SPEC CPU, SPECrate, SPECspeed are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). The stated results are published as of October 10, 2024; see spec.org
⁽³⁾ Up to 25% better energy efficiency compared to HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers based on 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors. SPEC and the name SPECpower_ssj 2008 are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). The stated results are published as of October 10, 2024; see spec.org.
⁽⁴⁾ #1 SPECspeed2017_int, #1 SPECspeed2017_fp, #1 SPECrate2017_int, and #1 SPECrate2017_fp result for AMD EPYC 8004 series. SPEC and the names SPEC CPU, SPECrate, SPECspeed are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). The stated results are published as
⁽⁵⁾ of October 10, 2024; see spec.org.
⁽⁶⁾ #1 SPECpower_ssj 2008 result for AMD EPYC 8004 series on Linux – SPEC and the names SPECpower_ssj 2008 are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). The stated results are published as of 10-10-24; see spec.org. SPECpower_ssj 2008: #1444.
⁽⁷⁾ VMware VMmark is a product of VMware. The competitive benchmark claims are based on being the best 768 total cores on the VMmark 4.0.1 benchmark, with a score of 7.36 @ 8 tiles. Results as of October 10,2024. VMmark disclosures are available.
⁽⁸⁾ TPC Benchmark H (TPC-H) performance as of October 10, 2024. See tpc.org for more information. Claim based on having the #1 performance for a non-clustered system on the TPC-H @ 3000GB scale factor. Configuration: 1 HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen11 server used 2 AMD EPYC 9575F 3.29 GHz processor; 2 socket/128 cores/256 threads; Microsoft Windows Server 2025; Microsoft SQL Server 2022 Enterprise Edition. TPC-H results show the HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen11 with a result of 3,401,383 QphH @ 3,000GB and $350 USD/kQphH @ 3,000GB with a system availability of December 2, 2024; see www.tpc.org/3395 for details.
⁽⁹⁾ TPC Benchmark H (TPC-H) performance as of October 10, 2024. See tpc.org for more information. Claim based on having the #1 performance for a non-clustered 1P system on the TPC-H @ 3,000GB scale factor. Configuration: 1 HPE ProLiant DL345 Gen11 server used 1 AMD EPYC 9655P 2.6GHz processor; 1 socket/96 cores/192 threads; Microsoft Windows Server 2022; Microsoft SQL Server 2022 Enterprise Edition. TPC-H results show the HPE ProLiant DL345 Gen11 with a result of 2,549,209.1 QphH @ 3,000GB and $333.84 USD/QphH @ 3,000GB with a system availability of October 10, 2024; see www.tpc.org/3396 for details.
⁽¹⁰⁾ SPEC and the name SPECjbb are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). The stated results are published as of October 10, 2024; see spec.org. #1434, #1435, #1357, #1358, #1359, #1360