Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), a part of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) that provides intelligent solutions and cloud-based services, is on for a big project in Greece that deals with artificial intelligence (AI), a Greek news agency reported.
Global Excellence Center in Artificial Intelligence
HPE told the media it has plans to establish a global Excellence Center in Artificial Intelligence in Greece.
“Greece is emerging as a hub of innovation in the greater region and attracts leading companies from the global technological network,” Christos Dimas, Greece’s Deputy Minister of Development and Investment, said during the Delphi Economic Forum last Friday. The Delphi Economic Forum is a non-profit and non-partisan organization working closely with civil society, public organizations, businesses, and individuals.
HPE’s global Excellence Center in Artificial Intelligence will be part of HPE Ezmeral Software. It will aim to help business customers worldwide when it comes to incorporating AI in their operations. HPE Ezmeral is a platform that lets users run cloud-native or non-cloud-native apps in containers without the need to refactor them. It offers a high-performing distributed file system for persistent data and stateful applications.
In order to boost the new Excellence Center in Greece, Dimas added that HPE has recently created more than 30 new positions for specialized software engineers and programmers with substantial experience in open code tools. They have already filled most positions, the Greek deputy minister said.
Michalis Kasimiotis, the chief executive officer of HPE Greece and Cyprus, expressed their excitement for this new project. They stated it would “bring closer human resources and technology, promoting innovation and helping companies and organizations worldwide to create more value and acquire a competitive edge from the massive volume of data they currently own.”
This is not the first-time HPE got involved with a significant project in Europe. Last 2020, HPE was awarded over $160 million to build a supercomputer known as LUMI in Finland.
The European Joint Undertaking EuroHPC, a joint supercomputing tie-up between the European Union and national governments, funded this undertaking.
HPE’s LUMI supercomputer had a theoretical peak performance of over 550 petaflops. It also bested the RIKEN Center for Computational Science’s top-performing Fugaku petascale computer, which reached up to 415.5 petaflops in June that year.
Other HP news
Meanwhile, in other HP news, the company yesterday announced that Poly – another HP company – is having a strategic collaboration with Pexip, a video technology platform, to provide a suite of on-premises and cloud-based communications solutions for HP’s customers, particularly those in the government, public, and private sectors.
This collaboration has three offerings: the Poly PrivateConnect powered by Pexip, a secure video technology platform; the Poly CloudConnect powered by Pexip, a cloud-based video technology platform; and the Poly FedConnect powered by Pexip, a security-enhanced service.
“We are partnering with Pexip as a market leader with proven innovation in its solutions, delivering best-in-class security, scalability, and interoperability. Its interoperability capabilities for Microsoft Teams are widely considered to provide the most Teams-like experiences without being native. We are excited to see how the solution roadmap will grow and evolve to support our joint customers,” HP said in its official press release.
