Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) walked away with a $2 billion contract from the National Security Agency (NSA) to provide high-performance compute capacity via its GreenLake platform.

The 10-year contract will enable the NSA to expand the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to glean more detailed insights, analyses, and forecasts from a growing supply of raw data.

HPE is deploying a combination of HPE Apollo and ProLiant servers in support of the NSA contract, which will be hosed in a QTS hosting facility certified to provide secure, compliant services for government agencies. The company expects to bring the offering online later next year.

GreenLake is the company’s consumption-based cloud portfolio. The platform enables customers to deploy HPE infrastructure wherever they need it whether that be in the data center, a co-location facility, or at the edge.

Since announcing the service in 2018, the strategy has paid dividends for the company with GreenLake orders growing double digits each quarter.

“I think this is an excellent testament to not only HPE’s Cray acquisition but its XaaS GreenLake play,” Patrick Moorhead, president and principal analyst at Moor Insights and Strategy, wrote in response to questions. “Enterprises want high performance and general computing as a service and don’t have to solely go to the public cloud now.”

The announcement comes just months after HPE announced plans to offer HPC clusters through its Greenlake platform.

“With this offering HPE customers will be able to run their modeling and simulation workloads with a fully managed, pre-bundled, HPC cloud service to operate in any data center or colocation environment,” Keith White, HPE SVP and GM of GreenLake, said at the time.

The service effectively streamlines the deployment of a supercomputing cluster into a subscription service that avoids the upfront cost, complexity, and long-term management.

HPE is no stranger to HPC. The company acquired supercomputing legend Cray in 2019 for $1.3 billion in cash. Founded in 1987, Cray has from the beginning focused on supercomputing, storage, and data analytics. Those capabilities are now paramount to Greenlake’s HPC products.