en.Wedoany.com Reported - On April 30, 2026, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, headquartered in Houston, Texas, USA, officially expanded its HPE ProLiant edge computing portfolio, launching a new computing platform designed for extreme environments and distributed AI inference. The core products of this release include the HPE ProLiant Compute EL2000 chassis, two Gen12 edge servers, and the upgraded HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11. All platforms have been validated for harsh environments and come equipped with an environmental hardening option kit, covering deployment scenarios in retail, manufacturing, telecommunications, and national security.
The all-new EL2000 chassis is the architectural foundation of this product line, utilizing Intel Xeon 6 processors and designed specifically for edge environments with strict constraints on size, weight, and power. The chassis can accommodate two HPE ProLiant Compute EL220 Gen12 servers or one EL240 Gen12 server, with CPU core counts scaling from 8 to 144, a thermal design power of up to 350 watts, an operating temperature range of -40°C to 55°C, and stable operation in up to 95% humidity. Krista Satterthwaite, HPE Senior Vice President and General Manager of Compute, stated that industries are accelerating their push to the edge for AI inference and remote operations, where traditional IT structures are often difficult to deploy. HPE ProLiant, with enterprise-grade security, right-sized scale, and unified management, enables organizations to confidently expand their business in complex edge environments.
AI inference capabilities are built starting from the chip layer. The EL240 Gen12 server can be optionally configured with NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 or RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, both accelerators optimized for power and thermal efficiency for edge AI inference tasks. The upgraded version of the HPE ProLiant DL145 Gen11 is equipped with AMD EPYC 8005 series processors, integrating up to 84 high-efficiency cores, achieving a silent design within a compact 2U chassis, suitable for the quiet operation requirements of manufacturing floors and retail back offices. In the MLPerf Inference v6.0 benchmark, the DL145 Gen11 configuration based on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 GPU was verified as the only server purpose-built for edge AI inference, with performance data sourced from public test results published by MLCommons.
The environmental hardening option kit pushes the deployment boundaries of the three products to their physical limits. This kit is designed according to the MIL-STD-810H military standard, covering conditions such as vibration, shock, dust-laden air, and electromagnetic interference, allowing the servers to continuously deliver computing power in high altitudes, extreme temperatures, and hazardous transportation environments, capable of adapting to long-duration mission requirements on mobile platforms like aircraft and ground vehicles. HPE also provides Integrated Lights-Out remote management software and the HPE Compute Ops Management cloud management platform, supporting IT teams in implementing centralized configuration, monitoring, and security control over globally distributed nodes, bringing edge resources scattered across factories, warehouses, and telecom stations into unified fleet-style management.
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