Case Study: Kansas State University achieves regional HPC access and accelerates climate-resilient research with HPE Aruba Networking

Accelerating life-changing research through open science

Great Plains Network’s GP-ARGO project, supported by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is accelerating open-science research for 58 underserved academic institutions across the U.S. Midwest and Great Plains. These schools previously lacked the distributed high-performance computing needed for data- and compute-intensive work, limiting research into climate-adaptive crops, drought resilience, and fundamental physics—areas with direct implications for food security.

GP-ARGO deployed compact, powerful HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 Plus v2 servers with AMD EPYC CPUs and NVIDIA A100 GPUs to provide distributed HPC and balanced GPU/CPU capacity. The solution expands machine-learning and large-scale computation across the region, enabling new discoveries, improving crop and animal adaptation to a warming climate, and helping better predict yields while building regional research capacity.

Kansas State University​

Daniel Andresen

Director, Institute for Computational Research