Lenovo (00992) and NVIDIA launch a brand new hybrid AI solution, with servers, workstations, and solutions undergoing a transformative upgrade.

On March 18, 2024, the global AI event GTC (GPU Technology Conference) 2024 officially opened, with LENOVO GROUP and NVIDIA announcing a collaboration to launch a new hybrid artificial intelligence solution to help enterprises and cloud providers gain the critical accelerated computing power needed for success in the AI era, turning AI from concept to reality. These hybrid solutions are the result of joint engineering collaboration between the two parties, aimed at efficiently bringing AI into customer data where and when they need it, whether on the edge or in the cloud. This move will advance LENOVO GROUP's vision of AI for All and provide support for the rapid entry of the next generation of large-scale generative AI innovation architectures into the market. The LENOVO GROUP hybrid solution has been optimized for running NVIDIA AI Enterprise software to achieve secure, supported, and stable production-level AI, and now also provides developers with the newly released NVIDIA microservices, including NVIDIA NIM and NeMo Retriever. The collaboration between LENOVO GROUP and NVIDIA is breaking the boundaries of enhanced intelligence for businesses around the world, bringing AI computing to where the data is with a comprehensive portfolio of cutting-edge hybrid AI solutions, which will support generative AI in almost any location while promoting sustainable work practices, as stated by Kirk Skaugen, Executive Vice President and President of the Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) at LENOVO GROUP. "We are at a critical turning point. Thanks to continuous improvements in real-time computing, energy efficiency, and deployment convenience, new AI applications are rapidly emerging. Through close cooperation with NVIDIA, Lenovo has made significant progress in efficiency, performance, and cost, accelerating the deployment of AI applications across various industries and helping enterprises gain insights from their datasets, whether in enhancing retail experiences, transforming urban landscapes, or driving intelligent manufacturing to new heights." Bob Pette, Vice President of NVIDIA Enterprise Platform, said, "Artificial intelligence is a powerful force that can help businesses uncover new insights and increase productivity from data." "The combination of Lenovo's new enterprise AI solutions with NVIDIA technology marks a key milestone in enhancing AI computing performance. It provides enterprises with trusted hybrid systems that can support generative AI operations in almost any location." Today, industries worldwide are looking to leverage AI to analyze massive datasets, with energy efficiency being a key factor. Enterprises face tremendous pressure in terms of energy consumption when undertaking these compute-intensive tasks. LENOVO GROUP leads the way in achieving high-performance and high-power computing, having introduced the innovative Lenovo Neptune liquid cooling technology years ago. This technology not only ranked Lenovo first on the Green500 list, but its cutting-edge design is supported by NVIDIA GPUs to increase computing speeds and ensure device cooling even in high-temperature and multi-GPU environments. The Lenovo ThinkSystem AI server, in collaboration with NVIDIA, quickly enhances generative AI inference and efficiency. In the realm of large-scale and efficient enhanced artificial intelligence workloads, Lenovo has unveiled an expansion of the ThinkSystem AI product portfolio, a milestone in the industry. This includes two powerful new 8-way NVIDIA GPU systems designed to provide massive computing power and unparalleled energy efficiency to accelerate AI implementation. Designed for generative AI, natural language processing (NLP), and large language models (LLM), the systems support the NVIDIA HGX AI computing platform entering the market, including the NVIDIA H100 and H200 Tensor Core GPUs and the new NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB200 superchip, along with the advanced next-generation NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and Spectrum-X800 Ethernet network platforms. The Lenovo ThinkSystem AI server equipped with NVIDIA B200 Tensor Core GPU will empower the new era of generative AI. The generative AI engine of the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, along with faster NVIDIA NVLink interconnects and enhanced security features, propels data centers into a new era. The real-time inference capabilities of the B200 GPU have increased 25 times, accelerating trillion-parameter language models designed for the most demanding AI, data analytics, and high-performance computing workloads. The new Lenovo ThinkSystem SR780a V3 is a 5U system utilizing Lenovo Neptune liquid cooling technology with a power usage effectiveness (PUE) of up to 1.1. By using direct water cooling for CPUs and GPUs, as well as NVIDIA NVSwitch technology, the system can maintain peak performance without encountering any thermal limitations. For over a decade, Lenovo's industry-leading Neptune direct water cooling solution has enabled customers to achieve a 40% reduction in power consumption and a 3.5 times improvement in cooling performance by recycling warm water to cool data center systems. This makes the system more efficient compared to traditional air-cooling systems. According to the "Uptime Institute 2021 Global Data Center Annual Survey," PUE and power consumption are among the most focused sustainable development methods used to determine data center energy efficiency. Liquid cooling offers a more energy-efficient alternative to air, allowing the system to.Achieving higher sustained performance while consuming less energy. It also allows the ThinkSystem SR780a to be installed in a dense 5U enclosure, helping to save valuable data center space.Lenovo ThinkSystem SR780a V3 In addition, the new Lenovo ThinkSystem SR680a V3 is an air-cooled dual-socket system that maximizes acceleration for complex artificial intelligence equipped with Intel processors and NVIDIA GPUs. The highly accelerated system provides immense computational power, using industry-standard 19-inch server racks allowing for dense hardware configurations to maximize efficiency while avoiding taking up too much space. Lenovo also showcased the new PG8A0N, the ultimate 1U node designed specifically for AI, supporting the NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip. The new GB200 chip will power the new era of computing. The real-time Large Language Model (LLM) inference speed of this superchip has been increased by 45 times, with an overall 40x reduction in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and 40x reduction in power consumption. Lenovo will closely collaborate with NVIDIA to provide GB200 rack systems to enhance the capabilities of artificial intelligence training, data processing, engineering design, and simulation. Customers can run NVIDIA AI Enterprise on Lenovo's NVIDIA-certified system product portfolio, an end-to-end cloud-native software platform for developing and deploying production-level AI applications. Customers can use NVIDIA NIM Inference Microservices included in NVIDIA AI Enterprise on Lenovo's enterprise infrastructure for high-performance inference of popular AI models in the NVIDIA ecosystem. This product portfolio includes Lenovo's XClarity system management software to improve efficiency in deploying infrastructure and Lenovo's Intelligent Computing Platform (LiCO) to simplify the utilization of cluster computing resources for AI model development and training as well as HPC workloads. The portfolio also supports 4th and 5th generation Intel Xeon scalable processors and provides thermal headroom for future higher-power GPUs. Collaboratively designed NVIDIA MGX solutions: Bringing Custom AI, NVIDIA Omniverse, and High-Performance Computing to CSPs and Enterprises From workstations to cloud support, Lenovo is a leading provider in design, engineering, and support for NVIDIA OVX systems and the NVIDIA Omniverse development platform. To help enterprises rapidly build and deploy a wide range of dedicated AI, HPC, and Omniverse applications, Lenovo partnered with NVIDIA to use NVIDIA MGX modular reference designs to accelerate model building. With these designs, cloud service providers can economically and massively provide accelerated computing for AI and Omniverse workloads, allowing for faster customization of models. Including support for the NVIDIA H200 GPU, these systems empower scientists and researchers to tackle some of the world's most challenging problems by accelerating the processing of TB-scale data for complex AI and HPC applications. New products from Lenovo adopting NVIDIA MGX modular reference server design include: - New Lenovo HG630N - MGX 1U - an open standard server with Lenovo Neptune direct liquid cooling that lowers power consumption while supporting high-performance GPUs. - New Lenovo HG650N - MGX 2U - a highly modular and GPU-optimized system that uses air cooling, supports industry-standard racks, and deploys the NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper superchip. - New Lenovo HG660X V3 - MGX 4U - this system supports up to 8 600W NVIDIA GPUs in an air-cooled environment, making it an ideal choice for NVIDIA Omniverse and AI workloads. Lenovo is a design partner for NVIDIA MGX 4U. - New Lenovo HR650N - MGX 2U - a high-performance Arm CPU server with flexibility for multicore and storage and front I/O, utilizing the energy-efficient NVIDIA Grace CPU superchip and supporting dpu. Lenovo ThinkStation workstations with NVIDIA RTX: Accessible Generative AI Lenovo enhances its data science workstations by offering up to 4 NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPUs for large-scale AI training, fine-tuning, inference, and accelerating graphics-intensive workloads. This increases productivity for AI developers through automated workflows: - The new Lenovo workstations equipped with NVIDIA AI Workbench can be used to develop and deploy powerful AI solutions for inference, large-scale simulation, and demanding industrial and scientific workflows. NVIDIA AI Workbench enables all developers to easily engage in generative AI and machine learning development. - The Lenovo ThinkStation PX with dual CPUs and up to 4 NVIDIA RTX professional GPUs is the most powerful workstation on the market today. Lenovo's AI-ready ThinkStation desktops and ThinkPad mobile workstations portfolio provide the broadest and most powerful workstations for AI, addressing the most intensive real-time AI solution development. Lenovo Professional Services: Accelerating the AI Journey and Industry Progress Supported by NVIDIA, Lenovo's real-time solutions are helping customers accelerate towards a more intelligent future and unlocking new potentials across various industries. In the retail sector, these solutions optimize customer traffic distribution by analyzing mobile and behavior patterns, as well as managing inventory more effectively in real-time.In the manufacturing industry, the joint solution of Lenovo and NVIDIA has enhanced safety between workers and machines by improving the inspection process on the assembly line. In urban planning, Lenovo's integrated edge AI solution is helping planners optimize the efficiency of space, infrastructure, and asset utilization by utilizing data, effectively managing traffic flow, and reducing energy consumption.Lenovo's newly announced Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence (COE) combines business consultants, data scientists, and AI optimized infrastructure to maximize outcomes and meet customer needs on their AI journey. Drawing on Lenovo's proven AI-ready experience in security, personnel, processes, and technology, the AI COE provides expertise and capabilities to enable enterprises to quickly achieve powerful, responsible, and sustainable AI. Lenovo's new AI professional services include: New AI Discovery Tool - Helps clients explore the "infinite possibilities" of AI. Through interactive workshops and assessments, Lenovo has developed a blueprint for AI success by looking at the entire ecosystem and formulating an AI strategy. New Rapid AI Service in partnership with NVIDIA - Leveraging powerful data insights and achieving competitive advantage through generative AI. Lenovo provides full-stack solutions to support the entire product lifecycle, as well as services for implementing, adopting, and scaling generative AI solutions. New TruScale GenAI as a Service - Provides AI capabilities through an as-a-service model to enhance flexibility, scalability, and predictability. With Lenovo TruScale, infrastructure can always be appropriately configured, deployed, and managed for AI innovation. Enhanced AI professional services - By providing business consultants, data scientists, and AI optimized infrastructure as a service, Lenovo helps clients accelerate their AI transformation and ensure seamless utilization of sustainable AI.