HP ProLiant Compute DL384 Gen12
HPE's first server built on the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip — a 2U, air-cooled, factory-assembled system for large-language-model inferencing/fine-tuning and memory-intensive HPC, available as a single-superchip GH200 or dual-superchip GH200 NVL2 configuration with up to 1.2 TB of unified memory.
Memory
- Type
- Unified LPDDR5X + HBM3e per NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip
- Max (GH200)
- 480 GB LPDDR5X + 144 GB HBM3e (96GB HBM3e variant available to select customers)
- Max (GH200 NVL2)
- 960 GB LPDDR5X + 288 GB HBM3e, up to 1.2 TB combined unified memory
- Bandwidth (GH200)
- 512 GB/s LPDDR5X; up to 4.9 TB/s HBM3e
- Bandwidth (GH200 NVL2)
- 1024 GB/s LPDDR5X; up to 9.8 TB/s HBM3e
Storage
- M.2
- Up to 2 M.2 devices (PCIe Gen3); not in hardware RAID — recommended for boot only, not local cache
- EDSFF
- Up to 8 EDSFF NVMe Gen5 E3.S drives (dual-superchip config); hardware RAID and hot-plug not supported in this generation
- Max capacity
- 122.8 TB Hot Plug SFF NVMe PCIe U.3 SSD (8 x 15.36 TB)
- Layout
- Balanced (drives split evenly across both superchips) or unbalanced (all on boot superchip, max 4) configurations
Expansion
- PCIe (1 superchip, recommended)
- 2 x FHHL PCIe 5.0 x16 slots
- PCIe (1 superchip, 1 OCP)
- 1 x FHHL PCIe 5.0 x16 slot + 1 x OCP 3.0 x16 slot
- PCIe (1 superchip, 4xEDSFF)
- 1 x FHHL PCIe 5.0 x16 slot + 4 EDSFF drives
- PCIe (2 superchips, recommended)
- 4 x FHHL PCIe 5.0 x16 slots
- PCIe (2 superchips, 2 OCP)
- 2 x FHHL PCIe 5.0 x16 slots + 2 x OCP 3.0 x16 slots
- PCIe (2 superchips, 8xEDSFF)
- 2 x FHHL PCIe 5.0 x16 slots + 8 EDSFF drives
- Networking
- InfiniBand NDR/NDR200/XDR, Ethernet, and NVIDIA BlueField DPU adapters (ConnectX-7, BlueField-3) supported per superchip
Power
- Supply
- HPE 1800 W–2200 W Flex Slot Titanium hot-plug (up to 96% efficiency), part P44712-B21
- Single superchip
- 2 PSUs minimum; 3 for 2+1 redundancy; 4 for 2+2 redundancy
- Dual superchip (NVL2)
- 4 PSUs required, 3+1 redundancy
- Heat dissipation
- Up to 3048 W (10.4k BTU/hr) fully populated GH200 NVL2
Ports
- Front
- 1 x iLO service port, 1 x USB 3.2
- Rear
- 2 x USB 3.0, 1 x VGA, 1 x serial port, 1 x dedicated iLO (1 Gb)
Physical
- Form factor
- 2U standard 19-inch rack, air-cooled
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
- 87.5 x 448 x 789 mm (3.44 x 17.64 x 31.08 in)
- Weight
- Single Superchip: max 26 kg (58 lb); Dual Superchip: max 31 kg (69 lb)
Management
- BMC
- HPE iLO 6 ASIC
- Security
- HPE Silicon Root of Trust
- Standards
- Redfish API
- OS support
- Initial certifications: RHEL 9.4, Ubuntu 24.04, SLES15 SP5 QU1
Processors
- NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip (72-core Arm Neoverse V2, 480GB LPDDR5X, 144GB HBM3e)
- NVIDIA GH200 NVL2 (dual Grace Hopper Superchip, 144 Arm Neoverse V2 cores, 960GB LPDDR5X, 288GB HBM3e)