HPE opens Bristol R&D and engineering office
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has opened its new office in Bristol, bringing together five different operations.
The new office will serve as a hub for HPE’s UK research and development (R&D) and engineering teams, with over 200 staff working on storage, supercomputing, hybrid cloud and cybersecurity. The new site includes a range of working environments, including labs, collaboration spaces and focus areas that are designed to maximise flexibility and wellness.
HPE has been contributing to the Bristol technology ecosystem for over four decades and last year celebrated the 40th anniversary of its previous site in Filton. Starting off as an assembly facility for storage drives, the site evolved into a world-leading centre for R&D.
Engineers at Hewlett Packard Labs and HPE storage engineers in Bristol are responsible for over 300 technology patents.
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“We have this most amazing R&D facility here in Bristol and we are combining our R&D Labs, hybrid cloud business, storage business and supercomputing teams, focussed on engineering with 200 people on the site, bringing a number of sites together. We are investing in Bristol for the long term,” Matt Harris senior vice president and managing director, UK, Ireland, Middle East and Africa at HPE tells eeNews Europe.
The move brings together the HPE storage, hybrid cloud and Hewlett Packard Labs engineering teams with the HPE Cray supercomputing teams at one facility in the city for the first time.
Cray supercomputing, whose European HQ was located in Bristol city centre, was acquired by HPE in 2019. The HPE Cray team in Bristol are pioneers in application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design and high performance networking for supercomputers.
They have contributed to some of the world’s largest supercomputers, including the world’s fastest supercomputer, Frontier, and the University of Bristol’s Isambard-AI supercomputer.
“AI needs supercomputing and AI workloads are very different to classic datacentre computer and having 7 of the worlds top ten in the Green 500 is vital for building AI in a sustainable way, that’s fundamental for us,” said Harris. “What you will see from HP is lots of collaboration in the ecosystem, for example Nvidia is one of our biggest partners, and we build private cloud turnkey with NIM AI stacks on top of that for system integrators and vertical applications.”
“We can house 200 people with 300 aligned [with the site] and it has been chosen to give us expansion potential and we are just getting started.”
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