Cray GX250

Cray GX250 is a CPU-only blade for Cray GX platforms.¹ Each blade contains:

• 8x AMD Venice CPUs and up to 2,048 cores
• 4x or 8x Slingshot 400G NICs
• Two NVMe drives

HPE had a GX250 blade on display at SC25:

A single GX rack can accommodate 40 GX440n blades or 81,920 CPU cores.¹

This blade will be available in “early 2027.”¹

Footnotes

1. https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2025/11/next-generation-hpe-cray-supercomputing-portfolio-introduces-industry-leading-compute-density-to-boost-ai-productivity.html ↩ ↩² ↩³