Lenovo announced Lenovo ThinkSystem V4 solutions powered by Intel processors, powered by Intel® Xeon® 6 processors and designed to enable artificial intelligence while versatile to fit each company’s specific workload needs. The portfolio includes novel AI-enabled solutions that ensure the right mix of AI is available to support customers seamlessly integrate AI into their workflows with novel servers that are specifically designed and optimized to maximize performance and efficiency for target workloads. Additionally, Lenovo’s novel AI-powered Systems Management solutions now leverage generative AI to automate and simplify deployment and configuration across increasingly distributed computer networks.
Together, the next-generation ThinkSystem V4 portfolio unlocks enterprise-specific data to support operational decision-making, improve management efficiency and escalate productivity while protecting information.
Businesses today need a technology framework that drives the adoption and enablement of AI in every company, while generating faster insights and maximizing the efficiency of all IT workloads. Lenovo’s continued AI innovation delivers on its promise of “Smarter AI for All” by simplifying the AI customer journey from pocket to cloud and enabling versatile AI deployment no matter where customers are.
Workloads optimized for all your business needs
The Lenovo ThinkSystem V4 portfolio makes the path to AI easier for every business with advanced performance, efficiency and manageability. With novel server designs, organizations can consolidate their IT footprint while generating faster analytics and improving energy efficiency, using a unified platform specifically optimized for the workloads that today’s businesses rely on.
As part of the portfolio, Lenovo is introducing novel ThinkSystem servers optimized for rack density and mass transactional data, maximizing processing efficiency in the data center space for enterprises, Internet service providers, and high-performance telecommunications companies. Leveraging proprietary Lenovo engineering and Intel Xeon processors, the ThinkSystem V4 offering delivers more than 4x more cores per rack and 4.3x faster performance. [1]
Fresh Lenovo ThinkSystem SD520 V4 the server provides extreme server rack density and performance, up to 225% more cores [2] in a 2U chassis providing very dense processing capabilities and up to 3.18 times greater throughput [3] for an increased number of online transactions. ZTthree times more storage space Compared to the previous version, the platform provides greater memory bandwidth, which is ideal for compute-intensive transaction workloads, providing faster visibility into online banking, e-commerce and CSPs.
Plus novel Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 V4 reimagines power for cloud, Telco 5G Core and e-commerce workloads, maximizing per-rack performance with up to up to 42% faster multimedia transcoding. [4] By using the server, customers can reduce costs by streamlining management processes, reducing downtime and optimizing resource exploit. Powered by the creative Intel E-Core processor that reduces power consumption while maximizing performance in Telco Core applications, the SR630 V4 is designed for increased performance and workload optimization for up to twice the application throughput [5] supported by PCIe 5 IO and DDR5 memory.
As the novel era of artificial intelligence evolves, Lenovo’s infrastructure is being designed from the ground up so customers can focus on innovation with peace of mind. Ranked Number 1 in x86 security by ITIC For 5 years in a row, Lenovo ThinkSystem servers are hardened against increasingly sophisticated security threats and support the highest levels of business continuity, including NIST SP800-193 Platform Firmware Resilience (PFR). Additionally, AI-powered firmware code inspection and the latest compliance standards enhance security out of the box to prevent higher-level threats.
Expanding the scope of liquid cooling to accelerate innovation
For more than a decade, Lenovo has been the global leader in energy-efficient liquid-cooled computers. As organizations continue to expand computing capabilities to achieve better results, Lenovo Neptune liquid cooling innovation helps achieve the high performance required by AI while reducing energy consumption by up to 40% through the exploit of heat removal fluids.
Across its portfolio, the company is expanding Lenovo’s pioneering Neptune air- and liquid-cooled thermal designs to more servers to deliver even greater performance as compute accelerates to meet the demands of smart transformation. ThinkSystem V4 features Lenovo Neptune liquid cooling technology to reduce power consumption on more multi-node, conventional HPC and AI-optimized servers, helping businesses of all sizes gain the computing power they need to compete and thrive with AI without compromise.
The right mix of edge-to-cloud AI
Lenovo has the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of AI solutions, from edge to cloud, with the right mix of GPUs, CPUs, software and support. The Lenovo AI innovators The program provides customers with more than 165 solutions, services and partners to manage AI workloads of any size and better navigate the entire AI journey across a wide range of industry markets. Additionally, the novel Intel Xeon 6 processor makes AI easier to access at every level with competent and quick processing that can handle the most demanding workloads without the need to add separate accelerators. Powered by Intel processors and Lenovo’s purpose-built engineering, the novel V4 infrastructure offering is designed to escalate the availability of AI workloads at any scale, providing solutions for:
- CPU-enabled AI inference options on models up to 20 billion parameters, CPU+GPU solutions for mainstream AI workloads, up to GPU-rich modeling and training solutions for > 175 billion parameters
To empower enterprises and accelerate AI adoption success, Lenovo has also introduced Lenovo AI Consulting and Professional Services, which offer a wide range of capabilities services, solutions and platforms that will support companies of all sizes find the right solutions to enable quick, cost-effective and scalable artificial intelligence. Combined with industry-ready solutions, Lenovo helps organizations scale their AI workloads by providing the highest flexibility across a wide range of compute engines.
Management of systems based on artificial intelligence
As smart hybrid infrastructure emerges, the demands for design, deployment, management and maintenance require tailored solutions that reduce complexity. Fresh Lenovo AIOps systems management uses generative artificial intelligence to support customers know what they need before they need it. Customers can easily deploy solutions in two days or less through a single pane of glass from the data center to the edge and benefit from a Zero Trust architecture and command center 2.0 that minimizes the security attack surface.
The newly enhanced XClarity One powered by AI3 AIOps is the industry’s first cloud-based hybrid, unified management as a service. The solution offers three predictive failure analysis engines that enable you to quickly identify potential problems and increasingly minimize system downtime:
- Predictive failure analysis powered by AI3 technology: Predictive hardware failure detection and continuous improvement with Gen. Artificial Intelligence
- Home connection powered by AI3: Proactively resolve issues by automatically opening support tickets and sending error reports
- AI3-based Premiere support (smarter support): Artificial intelligence automatically ships parts and services, reducing service costs and minimizing downtime
As today’s computing power is more evenly distributed across the cloud, edge, and devices, deploying AI and enterprise solutions requires a multi-layered, hybrid AI infrastructure that includes Client-Edge-Cloud-Network-Inteligence for enterprise customers. From shrewd devices to shrewd infrastructure and complete services, Lenovo continues to push the boundaries of innovation with novel creative solutions that bring advanced computing from pocket to mobile device, enabling smarter AI for all with simplified, versatile deployment and enhanced security features. Visit https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/servers-storage/lenovo-intel-ai-at-any-scale learn more.
2 Based on analysis of Lenovo SD540 V4 with 576 cores in a 2U chassis compared to SD530 V3 with 256 cores in a 2U chassis.
3 Based on Intel forecast data analysis Intel Xeon 6 with electronic cores vs. 5-year refresh performance escalate, including 3.18x improvement in Internet performance: Xeon 6780E (144c) vs. Xeon 8280 (28c).
4 Based on Intel’s May 2024 performance claims compared to 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors. Based on Intel Xeon Gen 6 vs. Intel Xeon Gen 5 architectural predictions: Cloud providers can maximize per-rack performance up to 42% faster for multimedia.
5 Based on Intel’s May 2024 performance claims compared to 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors. Based on architectural forecasts as of August 1, 2023 for the previous generation. Results may vary.