Delivering Solutions and Services for Extreme
Performance and Improved Business Outcomes
Lenovo Group (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) today announced a
comprehensive new suite of purpose-built AI-centric infrastructure
systems and solutions to advance Hybrid AI innovation from edge to
cloud. Lenovo is delivering GPU-rich and thermal efficient
solutions intended for compute intensive workloads across multiple
environments and industries. In industries such as financial
services and healthcare, customers are managing massive data sets
that require extreme I/O bandwidth and Lenovo is providing the IT
infrastructure solutions vital to management of critical data.
Across all these solutions is Lenovo TruScale, which provides the
ultimate flexibility, scale and support for customers to on-ramp
demanding AI workloads completely as-a-service. Regardless of where
customers are in their AI journey, Lenovo Professional Services are
simplifying the AI experience as customers look to meet the new
demands and opportunities of AI that businesses are facing
today.
“Lenovo is working to accelerate insights from data by
delivering new AI solutions for use across industries delivering a
significant positive impact on the everyday operations of our
customers,” said Kirk Skaugen, President of Lenovo ISG. “From
advancing financial service capabilities, upgrading the retail
experience, or improving the efficiency of our cities, our hybrid
approach enables businesses with AI-ready and AI-optimized
infrastructure, taking AI from concept to reality and empowering
businesses to efficiently deploy powerful, scalable and right-sized
AI solutions that drive innovation, digitalization and
productivity.”
Accelerating the Most Compute Demanding AI Workloads
In collaboration with AMD, Lenovo is delivering the ThinkSystem
SR685a V3 8GPU server, bringing customers extreme performance for
the most compute-demanding AI workloads, inclusive of GenAI and
Large Language Models (LLM). The powerful solution provides fast
acceleration, large memory, and I/O bandwidth to handle huge data
sets, needed for advances in the financial services, healthcare,
energy, climate science, and transportation industries. The new
ThinkSystem SR685a V3 is the optimal solution for both enterprise
private on-prem AI as well as for public AI cloud service
providers.
In financial services, the ThinkSystem SR685a V3 is designed to
help with fraud detection and prevention and KYC (know your
customer) initiatives. The system is also ideal for applications
supporting algorithmic trading strategies, risk management
(real-time transaction monitoring and value-at-risk), credit
issuance (loan analysis and approval recommendations), wealth
management and advisory services, streamlining and augmenting
regulatory compliance, and forecasting. Key features of the new
system include:
- Accelerated for intense compute with leading edge 4th
Generation AMD EPYC™ Processors and 8 new AMD Instinct™ MI300X
GPUs.
- Fully interconnected with AMD Infinity Fabric™, providing 1.5TB
of high-bandwidth (HBM3) memory capacity and up to 1TB/s peak
aggregate theoretical GPU I/O bandwidth performance and the speed
necessary for training and deploying AI models.
- With substantial thermal headroom via air-cooling, the Lenovo
SR685a V3 can sustain maximum performance of high-power CPUs and
GPUs.
- Ultimate flexibility including support for NVIDIA’s latest
HGXTM (H100/H200/B100) GPUs and drop-in support for the next
generation of AMD CPU.
“Together with Lenovo, we are accelerating AI transformation for
the enterprise in multiple manners – helping guide customers
through this monumental shift in computing, while providing robust
end-to-end solutions at scale,” said Forrest Norrod, executive vice
president and general manager, Data Center Solutions Group, AMD.
“We have a proven track record of bringing amazing solutions,
jointly, to the market and are excited to add AMD Instinct MI300X
to Lenovo’s portfolio, helping enterprises to rapidly adopt
AI.”
One of the Most Powerful Edge for Azure Stack HCI Server on
the Market
Lenovo is bringing AI inferencing and real time data analysis to
the edge with the new Lenovo ThinkAgile MX455 V3 Edge Premier
Solution with AMD EPYCTM 8004 processors. A versatile AI-optimized
platform delivers new levels of AI, compute, and storage
performance at the edge with the best power efficiency of any Azure
Stack HCI Solution. Offering turnkey seamless integration with
on-prem and Azure cloud, Lenovo’s ThinkAgile MX455 V3 Edge Premier
Solution allows customers to reduce TCO with unique lifecycle
management, gain an enhanced customer experience and allows the
ability to adopt software innovations faster. Lenovo’s ThinkAgile
MX455 V3 Edge Premier Solution, ideal for retail, manufacturing and
healthcare includes key features to:
- Reduce management overhead with automation, near zero-touch
provisioning and unique Lenovo Open Cloud Automation (LOC-A)
features to deploy faster and manage from anywhere in the cloud
using Azure Arc enabled architecture.
- Reduce maintenance time and costs with single point of contact
support and centralized, cloud-based fleet management.
- Increase security, reliability, and reduced downtime with
continuous testing and automated software updates, validated by
Microsoft and Lenovo.
“We hear from our customers every day that they need the power
of Microsoft Azure to extend into their diverse, real-world
environments – from manufacturing floors and retail spaces to
fast-food outlets and other distributed locations. Our
collaboration with Lenovo allows us to deliver just enough Azure to
these critical edge sites while simplifying deployment and life
cycle management,” said Douglas Phillips, Corporate Vice President,
Azure Edge + Platform. “The ThinkAgile MX455 V3 Edge Premier
Solution gives our shared customers a seamless experience from the
cloud to the edge, wherever their data lives. This new solution and
the power of our adaptive cloud approach enables businesses to
unify teams, streamline operations, and harness the power of
cloud-native and AI technologies so they can focus on transforming
their business, rather than managing infrastructure.”
Solving for Compute Intensive Workloads
Lenovo and AMD are unveiling a multi-node, high-performance,
thermally efficient server designed to maximize performance per
rack for intensive transaction processing. The Lenovo ThinkSystem
SD535 V3 is a 1S/1U half-width server node powered by a single 4th
Gen AMD EPYC processor and is engineered to maximize processing
power and thermal efficiency for workloads including cloud
computing and virtualization at scale, big data analytic,
high-performance computing and real-time e-commerce transactions
for businesses of all sizes. Key features include:
- Industry-leading support of CPU technology venders in a 2U 4
node offering – allowing customers full flexibility to optimize
workloads based on AMD or Intel architecture in same 2u
chassis.
- Scale agility allowing configuration of 2, 3 or 4 nodes
installed within one chassis.
- Simplify large scale automation, orchestration, and deployment
with Lenovo XClarity system management software.
- Unified power and cooling implementation delivering up to 30%
reduction in power consumption vs. Standard 1U rack server.
Simplifying the AI Experience with Professional
Services
To empower businesses and accelerate success with AI adoption,
Lenovo has introduced with immediate availability Lenovo AI
Advisory and Professional Services that offer a breadth of
services, solutions and platforms designed to help businesses of
all sizes navigate the AI landscape, find the right solutions to
put AI to work for their organizations quickly, cost-effectively
and at scale, bringing AI from concept to reality. The practice can
be broken into a five-step process:
- AI Discover: Lenovo tailors AI Discover engagements to
help customers visualize and map out their strategy and resources
for AI adoption. Lenovo’s experts assess the organization’s AI
readiness across security, people, technology, and process – using
proven methodology – with recommendations that put customers on a
path to AI success.
- AI Advisory: Lenovo’s experts recommend the most
effective security posture, change management plan, technology
architecture, and adoption plan for AI, based on customer strategy
and objectives. Lenovo helps define the desired outcomes of AI at
any scale, from pocket to cloud, and co-develops the roadmap to get
there.
- AI Fast Start: Lenovo’s experts design and build
critical AI elements to showcase how those key customer outcomes
can be achieved, whether they are business, operational, or
technology outcomes. This may take the form of a proof of concept
or MVP (minimum viable product) in either Lenovo or customer
labs.
- AI Deploy and Scale: Lenovo deploys the tools and
frameworks to implement a fully secure and scalable AI system or
fleet. Customers may choose to deploy via Lenovo TruScale
as-a-service, which can further reduce the upfront costs to help
deploy GenAI and scale with ease.
- AI Managed: Lenovo offers specialized guidance to
maintain, manage, and optimize the AI system. Lenovo partners with
customers to support IT deployments for their lifetime and
continuously cultivates and qualifies an ecosystem of AI Innovators
so that AI use cases can grow with AI maturity.
With Lenovo AI Advisory and Professional Services, customers can
leverage the support of proven expert teams to mitigate the
complexity of AI implementation and see real business outcomes
fast. Through a combination of end-to-end services, hardware, and
AI applications, Lenovo empowers customers to succeed at every
stage of their AI journey. By simplifying the rollout of AI, we
make AI accessible to organizations of all sizes and enabling
transformative intelligence across all industries.
For more information, visit
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/servers-storage/alliance/amd/
About Lenovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a US$62 billion revenue
global technology powerhouse, ranked #217 in the Fortune Global
500, employing 77,000 people around the world, and serving millions
of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to
deliver smarter technology for all, Lenovo has built on its success
as the world’s largest PC company by further expanding into growth
areas that fuel the advancement of ‘New IT’ technologies (client,
edge, cloud, network, and intelligence) including server, storage,
mobile, software, solutions, and services. This transformation
together with Lenovo’s world-changing innovation is building a more
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