Atlanta – November 18, 2024 – Today, Lenovo, the world’s number one supercomputer provider, announced new high-performance products that deliver breakthrough energy efficiency and faster computing to help scientific and industry researchers drive AI-powered transformation at all scales. Showcasing innovation. It was announced in supercomputing 2024 (SC24), a new powerful and energy-efficient platform will help scientists, engineers, and researchers push the boundaries of scientific discovery while enabling today’s businesses to unlock the potential of AI.
As data center infrastructure takes center stage as the powerhouse for AI and the digital economy, it must meet growing energy demands responsibly. Long known as the world’s largest gathering of high-performance computing (HPC) and research leaders, the SC is a global leader in the field of finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and more, as today’s business leaders aggressively drive this adoption. It has grown to the point where it attracts executives. Enabling AI solutions across your organization. For today’s enterprises, HPC is part of the core engine that enables them to realize the full potential of AI.
Unlock the AI Factory with better supercomputing for everyone
AI and HPC capabilities unlock data-driven insights, accelerated outcomes, and advanced use cases, but as organizations across all industries continue to increase their levels of capacity to support AI workloads, facing new thermal requirements. Lenovo provided insight into the challenges businesses face in the AI era, while leveraging the latest innovations from its partners to step into the future of AI factory cooling.
Backed by over 10 years of scalable supercomputing expertise and over 40 patents, Lenovo 6th Generation Neptune® Liquid Cooling This problem can be addressed by using a liquid to remove heat. This is much more efficient than traditional air cooling. A revolutionary new chassis flips the server vertically, fitting today’s most powerful accelerated computing technology into a compact 100% liquid-cooled system, eliminating the need for power-hungry fans and reducing energy consumption. Dramatically improve efficiency. Designed for industry-standard 19-inch racks, it enables organizations of all sizes to take advantage of the high performance of accelerated computing, one tray at a time, using standard power from an open ecosystem. .
“This design allows any data center provider to install these systems in their rooms without major changes. This means that the hardened floor to enter the room also requires special power supplies. That means no special doors,” said Scott Thies, vice president of products for Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group. “Lenovo Neptune liquid cooling breakthroughs allow users to take advantage of the highest performance computing available now and in the future.”
new 6th Lenovo Neptune generation liquid-cooled supercomputing servers use the latest processor and accelerator technologies to deliver scalable efficiency to unleash AI. At the show, Lenovo announced support For NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell NVL4 Super Chipintroduces what’s newly available Lenovo ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune.
6 people appearedth A generation of open-loop direct hot water cooling innovations enable enterprise customers of all sizes to run multi-trillion parameter AI models faster, at lower cost, and with greater energy efficiency using the Lenovo ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune. can bring your product to market. At the heart of the SC777 is the NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell NVL4 superchip, which delivers breakthrough performance by combining four NVIDIA NVLink-connected Blackwell GPUs integrated with two NVIDIA Grace CPUs via NVLink-C2C. Customers can choose NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand or Spectrum-X Ethernet platforms to achieve massive scale. new Enterprise reference architecture The partnership with NVIDIA will also help joint customers build their own AI factories: high-performance, scalable, and secure data centers for manufacturing intelligence.
Also make use of 6,th The Lenovo Neptune generation of Lenovo ThinkSystem SC750 V4 Neptune is designed to handle technical computing, grid deployment, and analytical workloads in a variety of fields including research, life sciences, energy, engineering, and financial simulation. This system supports the new Intel Xeon 6900P series 500W Granite Rapids AP processor and new 8800 MHz MRDIMM DDR5 memory. The industry-leading direct water cooling system ensures stable heat dissipation, keeping your CPU running fast and maximizing computational performance.
arose from its continuation Partnership with NVIDIALenovo also showcased a system that uses the NVIDIA H200 NVL platform to unleash AI acceleration for mainstream enterprise servers. For mainstream scientific and technical computing applications across higher education, healthcare, life sciences, energy, and financial services, the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3, powered by NVIDIA H200 NVL, delivers strong performance and efficient scaling while delivering a wide range of Allows flexible configuration selection to meet your needs. A set of HPC workloads. Enabled across the full-stack AI portfolio, Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage and NVIDIA Enabling organizations to quickly turn intelligence into results and deploy AI-powered computing anywhere, quickly and easily.
Accelerating clean energy transformation with water-cooled supercomputers
Supercomputers are used in everything from car and airplane design, oil exploration, and financial risk assessment to genome mapping and weather forecasting. Lenovo showcased how its water-cooled supercomputers are enabling accelerated transformation around the world and reflecting the transition to universally accessible, energy-efficient supercomputers.
In Italy, Enea, National Agency for New Technology, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development; selected lenovo To install an HPC system at the Portici (Naples) hub in order to accelerate research activities related to clean energy, in particular nuclear fusion. This new HPC system consists of 758 nodes with two Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8592+ CPUs, delivering compute power including: cresco – Computational Center for Complex Systems Research – A supercomputing system hosted at the Portici Research Center, from the current 1.01 petaflops to more than 6.5 petaflops.1 It is at the top of the domestic scene in terms of processing power.
Sustainability was also a key factor in the selection by ENEA, and Lenovo’s HPC solutions ensure greater energy efficiency than before. The use of Lenovo Neptune direct water cooling technology captures up to 98% of the heat generated by the supercomputer, saving energy used for fans. The increased efficiency prevents the CPU temperature from reaching a critical value and avoids reducing the maximum core frequency.
Even in Italy, Cineca has signed an agreement with Lenovo to deploy a new High HPC system for the scientific community. Research on fusion energy. The new infrastructure will be able to perform approximately 45 million operations per second (PFlop/s). It will be installed at the Cineca data center in Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna) at the end of 2024 and will become part of the Bologna Technopole ecosystem. This supercomputer will specialize in numerical simulation of plasma physics and structural analysis of advanced materials for nuclear fusion.
Cineca is a university consortium, one of Italy’s largest computing centers and one of the world’s most advanced centers for high performance computing, home to numerous national and international HPC projects. Masu. The Lenovo supercomputer selected through a public tender offers high energy efficiency, with Lenovo Neptune™ direct water cooling technology capable of reducing system cooling power consumption by 15%.
According to TOP500.org, Lenovo, the world’s #1 provider of supercomputers, works closely with key industry-leading partners to develop and integrate technology for exascale-level computing, making it easy to use at any scale. has been implemented in organizations.
Implementing high-performance private AI with water-cooled colocation
Elsewhere around the world, for customers who need maximum AI and HPC performance but don’t have liquid cooling infrastructure, Lenovo is partnering with leading colocation companies to deploy Neptune® for private AI workloads. We provide the supporting infrastructure. these colocation partnership We help customers implement high-performance private AI even when data center footprint is at a premium.
Partnership with LenovoDigital Realty built on standardized High density collocationProducts with more than half of Lenovo Neptune cooling technology Data centers around the worldThis represents a major advance in addressing the challenges of dense workloads posed by AI across all high-growth industries. Additionally, Digital Realty’s Private AI Exchange further enhances these capabilities by providing a secure and scalable environment for AI workloads. This exchange facilitates seamless integration and collaboration, allowing customers to maximize the potential of their AI investments.
Recently, Digital Realty and Lenovo partnered to global financial services provider Extend and distribute HPC capabilities that enable financial risk management strategies and calculations critical to business success. By leveraging Digital Realty’s PlatformDIGITAL® to expand data center capacity through colocation, financial services providers can avoid the capital expenditures associated with building their own data center facilities and renovate existing data centers. As a result of this ability, we were able to deploy six times faster. Meets advanced cooling requirements.
The company is also achieving its goal of designing the most energy-efficient solution with significant heat recycling potential through the implementation of Lenovo Neptune™ direct liquid cooling infrastructure with high-density colocation. The result is a 30% increase in energy efficiency using direct liquid cooling.
See how Lenovo develops coolers HPC We deliver innovative solutions that maximize efficiency and unleash the data center as the center of AI-accelerated transformation. https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/servers-storage/neptune/.
