With more than 160 systems on the most recent TOP500 list, Lenovo is one of the top vendors in the HPC (and increasingly AI) market. Lenovo supercomputers are found in a wide range of research, industry, and academic organizations performing everything from simulations, drug discovery, weather forecasting, and financial modeling -- much of which is now aided by advanced AI. Over the years, Lenovo has developed deep and wide domain expertise and experience giving them the ability to work closely with customers to design solutions that not only provide top performance but do it efficiently and more sustainably.
Lenovo has always been on the cutting-edge of new technology leveraging the latest advances in processors, accelerators, and innovative system design to build solutions that drive the boundaries of performance and efficiency.
The push to AI and systems to support it has led to a worldwide challenge. How will organizations power and cool systems that require much more electricity and expel much more heat? Lenovo has been innovating for this challenge for more than a decade. In addition to making energy efficiency a focus in system design, they have also built an entire suite of liquid cooling technology under the Neptune® product family.
With the ability to capture up to 100% of the heat produced by a server (including power supplies), Neptune® can help radically reduce data center energy consumption (like the University of Pisa did) and increase compute performance by 35% (like auto maker Geely Auto R&D). Neptune® also allows for much greater system density in terms of power per rack. Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Lenovo system supports more than 52kW per rack – 6.5x more than their former air-cooled system. At the same time, they’re getting as much as 95% faster processing speeds and reducing energy consumption by 40%. The result is a 6 PTFLOP/s supercomputer in only 14 racks in an area less than 11 square meters.
With Neptune®, Lenovo is ushering in the inevitable move to liquid cooling. They’re doing it in the Lenovo way by crafting solutions that use advanced technology, provide maximum performance, and deliver solid economic and environmental benefits.
Additionally, Lenovo’s GOAST Bioinformatics solution provides extremely fast results and thus shorter time to solution when it comes to basic biology research, drug discovery, better crop yields, and more. This solution, based on industry standard Intel or AMD processors, can deliver faster results than GPU/FPGA based systems at as much as 50% lower cost – without additional license fees that accelerated systems often require.
This sort of performance at a much lower cost doesn’t come from hardware advances alone. It’s only possible when you combine deep understanding of complex scientific workflows with the ability to design, optimize, and test highly tuned hardware and software components. That’s what Lenovo brings to the table. Who’s using Lenovo GOAST? Check these out:
- Korean government agency sequencing genomes to predict and diagnose diseases
- CSIR Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology digs deeper into the genetic roots of cancer
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