BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON. Powering a new era of efficient computing for generative AI, today at its annual global innovation event, Tech World,Lenovo unveiled the ThinkSystemN1380 Neptune— a6th generation vertical liquid cooling breakthrough.Rolling out acrossthe company’spartner ecosystem, theLenovo innovationenables organizations everywhere to build and run accelerated computing for generative AI while reducing data center power consumption by up to 40%. On stage, Lenovo expanded its longstanding collaboration with NVIDIA by announcing Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with NVIDIA andunveiled the ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune. Thispowerful new systemleverages the new ThinkSystem N1380 Neptuneto help bring NVIDIA Blackwell and the NVIDIA GB200 to theenterprise market, enabling trillion-parameter AI models in a compact design.
As AI adoption increases, data centers need to be re-engineered for higher thermal densities. With ThinkSystem N1380 Neptuneand the new ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune, Lenovo is pioneering data centers in which 100KW+ server racks are running without the need for specialized data center air conditioning. The innovation is pivotalin advancing new data center designs that support more dense iron and repurpose power for coolingin the age of AI. For more than a decade, Lenovo has pioneered liquid cooling innovations, with the goal of bringing the power of high-performance computing to every organization,” said Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang. “Through groundbreaking liquid-cooling engineering and technology integration, ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune is unlocking a new era of data center efficiency and design that will help bring NVIDIA Blackwell and trillion-parameter AI to all, while fundamentally changing how power is used in the data center.”
With ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune, data center power is maximized for AI and research, not for system cooling.The revolutionarytechnologyuses a reimagined vertical liquid cooling chassis to deliver accelerated computing with advanced efficiency in a compact system that is 100% liquid cooled, eliminating the need for power-consuming fans. Designed for industry standard 19-inch racks, organizations of any size can now leverage the highest accelerated computing available one tray at a time using standard power in an open ecosystem. “The NVIDIA Blackwell platform is the engine to power generative AI and define a new industrial revolution,” said Bob Pette, Vice President of Enterprise Platforms at NVIDIA. “With the breakthrough capabilities of Lenovo ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune and NVIDIA GB200, we’re supporting the world’s most technologically advanced accelerated workloads while massively reducing operation costs and energy consumption to help realize the promise of AI for every industry.”
The ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune supports
the next-generationNVIDIA
Quantum-X800 InfiniBandandSpectrum-X800
Ethernetplatforms for
high-performance accelerated networking. In addition, the ThinkSystem SC777 V4
Neptune supportsNVIDIA
AI Enterprise, a cloud-native
software platform that streamlines development and deployment of
production-grade AI solutions, including generative AI, computer vision, and
speech AI.
Bringing NVIDIA GB200
tothe EnterpriseMarket with 100% Heat Removal
Lenovo will deliver NVIDIAGB200 rack systems that supercharge AI training, data processing, engineering design and simulation.Featuring open-loop, direct warm-water cooling for the entire NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell system architecture with NVIDIA NVLink interconnect, enterprise customers of any size can use the Lenovo ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune to run trillion-parameter AI models that bring products to market faster, at lower cost and with higher energy efficiency. With the advanced watercooling, thenew ThinkSystemserver allows critical components to operate at lower temperatures and effectively removes all heat from all components,includingGPUs, memory, I/O, local storage, and voltage regulators.Combined, theinnovations enable AI training and real-time LLM inference for models scaling up to 10 trillion parameterswhile increasing performance, energy-efficiency, and reliability in a compact, ultra-quietsystem.
The Next Cool Era of Lenovo Neptune:
Scalable HPC and AI Supercomputer
Lenovo helps organizations deploy high-performance AI at any scale. Scaling from a compact 13U enclosure to full racks, rows, and datacenters, the ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune features eight tray slots, four 15kW power conversion stations, with a sophisticated Neptune water flow distribution, all elegantly packaged for optimal space, power, and cooling efficiency: Maximized Standard Form Factor: Engineered from the ground up to provide the additional space needed without breaking data center standards, N1380 maintains scalability to make the newest and highest performing technologies available to customers of every size. Reduced Power Consumption: The unique design eliminates the need for internal airflow and power-consuming fans, reducing power consumption by up to 40% compared with similar air-cooled systems in a typical data center. Rack insulation also significantly minimizes radiant heat. Cutting-Edge Power Conversion Station (PCS):Beyond the Neptune water-cooling infrastructure, the N1380 enclosure houses up to four ThinkSystem 15kW Titanium Power Conversion Stations (PCS), supplying internal system power to a 48V busbar. This innovative design merges power conversion, rectification, and distribution into a single PCS, a departure from traditional setups that demand separate units, resulting in best-in-class efficiency.
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