8 September 2024, Sun |
3:25 AM
Businesses across all industries today, face ever-increasing performance requirements from their computing systems to enable Machine Learning and Large Language Model applications. At the same time, companies face unprecedented scrutiny and attention towards maintaining a green footprint. Enterprises today must recognize sustainable High-Performance Computing as being the core engine that makes it possible to responsibly maximize AI’s potential.
As more businesses look to harness the capabilities presented by AI and HPC, it is critical to ensure sustainability is at the forefront of the design and performance of computing systems. AI and HPC capabilities are being increasingly implemented in a complementary manner, unlocking data-driven insights, accelerated outcomes, and advanced use cases. Lenovo has been enabling efficient and high-powered computing for over a decade, having pioneered Lenovo Neptune™ liquid cooling technology. Lenovo’s direct water-cooling solution uses warm water to cool nearly every component in the systems without the need for air moving devices inside the server. This water-cooled system enables customers to realize up to a 40% reduction in power consumption and a 3.5x improvement in thermal efficiencies compared to traditional air-cooled systems. This trademarked method keeps all the server components cool, reducing the need for traditional power-hungry air conditioning systems in data center.
Industry Partnerships Power Innovation
Lenovo is working with key partners across the industry to deliver powerful and sustainable HPC systems, purpose-built for AI. At NVIDIA’s recent GTC event, Lenovo and NVIDIA released a new ThinkSystem SR780a server which comes equipped with Lenovo Neptune technology, powering an ultra-efficient power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1 for the device. PUE compares data center energy usage to the overall energy used by the computing equipment. With direct water-cooling, the ThinkSystem SR780a delivers heightened power efficiency without sacrificing performance. Recently, Lenovo expanded its partnership with AMD by announcing three new purpose-built AI systems, designed for the most compute-demanding AI workloads, inclusive of GenAI and Large Language Models. Among these new solutions is Lenovo’s ThinkAgile MX455 V3, which offers double the CPU performance and half the power consumption compared to the closest competing offerings.
In addition to offering leading performance and sustainability capabilities, Lenovo also makes its entire portfolio of AI-built systems accessible for all enterprises by offering them through Lenovo TruScale, Lenovo’s pay-as-you-go operations model designed to scale for each business’ needs in an efficient manner.
Advanced Customer Use Cases
Lenovo’s High-Performance Computing advancements present greater opportunities for customers to make innovative advancements.
In the Middle East, Lenovo and Novo Genomics are working together to bring personalized medicine to Saudi Arabia. Through this partnership, Novo Genomics will be able to develop personalized treatments with the help of the high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure provided by Lenovo required to analyze the massive amounts of data involved. This collaboration is making personalized medicine a reality in Saudi Arabia.
Lenovo also recently launched a HPC cluster at Sharjah Technology Research and Innovation Park alongside Al Hathboor Bikal.ai dedicated to democratising technologies such as AI and HPC with UAE-based startups and small businesses (SMBs) in mind.
Leadership in Sustainable HPC
Including 13 newly listed HPC solutions, Lenovo continues to be the leading provider of Supercomputers with nearly a third of the systems on the TOP500 list built on Lenovo technology. This means that one out of every three supercomputer systems run on Lenovo, deployed in 21 markets worldwide. With the highest ranked x86 hosted system, and 2 supercomputers listed within the new Green 500 top 10, Lenovo HPC technology remains a leading vendor in energy efficient HPC solutions across the world.
Lenovo’s newest HPC and AI Global Innovation Centre, unveiled in October 2023, operates on-site at the in-house European manufacturing facility in Budapest, Hungary. In April, new solar panels were unveiled to enable 100% of the HPC workloads to run entirely on renewable energy during customer testing phases. The completed installation, now totaling 5,072 solar panels across two buildings, form part of an ambitious global plan to reduce Lenovo’s Scope 2 emissions by expanding the use of solar energy worldwide.
Businesses face an unprecedented need for accelerated computing power and Lenovo is steadfastly committed to delivering continued business performance improvements while improving environmental sustainability. As we focus on building HPC solutions for a more sustainable future, customers have unlimited possibilities with our new systems while still doing what is right for the planet.
