What happened
At NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026, HPE announced a liquid-cooled NVIDIA Vera CPU Rack by HPE with 256 NVIDIA Vera CPUs, supporting 22,500 sandboxes and boosting agentic AI CPU performance 80%.
Why it matters
The rack is designed to scale agent sandboxes, RL evaluation, and data processing pipelines alongside other compute in the AI factory, helping companies run more autonomous agents.
What to watch
HPE Private Cloud AI updates with the HPE AI Essentials API platform, including developer and ISV access, are scheduled to roll out starting in the second half of 2026.
WHO IT HITSEnterprise infrastructure teams building and operating private AI factories, as well as sovereign AI providers, will need to evaluate this rack for running large numbers of agent sandboxes and RL workloads.
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HPE used NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 to position its AI Factory with NVIDIA portfolio as a turnkey way for enterprises and sovereign AI providers to move agentic AI from pilot to production. The new NVIDIA Vera CPU Rack by HPE is the infrastructure piece aimed at the CPU-heavy side of that shift, with 256 NVIDIA Vera CPUs, support for 22,500 sandboxes, and an 80% boost in agentic AI CPU performance. Alongside the rack, HPE expanded HPE Private Cloud AI with HPE AI Essentials features such as governed APIs and a first-class MCP service, and it now supports NVIDIA's OpenShell reference architecture for secure AI agents. HPE also widened confidential computing support to HPE ProLiant Compute DL380a Gen12 servers with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. Schneider Electric plans to combine HPE Private Cloud AI with its industrial and OT expertise for Industrial AI Agents at the Edge. HPE Private Cloud AI updates are slated to roll out starting in the second half of 2026, with the self-service developer experience following in 2027.
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