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Lenovo Showcases High-Performance Computing Innovations at Supercomputing 2014
NEW ORLEANS --(Business Wire)--
At Supercomputing 2014 (SC14), Lenovo
(SEHK:0992) (Pink Sheets:LNVGY) today announced several new initiatives
featuring the latest advancements in high-performance computing (HPC),
that bring the commercial benefits of HPC to a broader spectrum of
clients and workloads.
"HPC is fueling major advancements in areas with high impact to both
industry and humanity," said Adalio Sanchez, senior vice president,
Enterprise Systems Group. "These span the discovery of the world's new
energy reserves to biomedical research improving global healthcare. To
take advantage of this opportunity, clients seek an IT partner with
extensive skills and experience in designing solutions that can meet
their unique needs. Our Lenovo (News - Alert) team has a long heritage of industry
expertise in HPC leading-edge technology. We are investing in
innovation, both in research and development, and in services and
support to help clients capitalize on emerging trends in HPC - including
cloud and big data analytics."
The announcements today include a state-of-the-art innovation center and
a record-setting benchmark.
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Lenovo HPC Innovation Center in Stuttgart, Germany - This
new center will establish a permanent benchmarking and R&D site for
Lenovo, and will offer a broad ecosystem of technologies and skills to
help clients optimize their applications. With support from key
partners including Intel® and Mellanox (News - Alert), Lenovo is creating a
state-of-the-art system, the foundation of the innovation center,
powered by the new Intel Xeon® E5 2600 v3 + Xeon Phi™ coprocessors and
leveraging new Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand interconnect fabric.
While the core facility will reside in Stuttgart, the Lenovo HPC
Innovation Center will call on the talents of several specialized
client partners from across Europe that will operate satellite sites
to further expand capabilities and advance localized research. Lenovo
will leverage the newest technology, cooperation with client partners
and expansive HPC skills to advance the science and broaden the
adoption of high-performance computing. The installation of the
Stuttgart center will begin in Decembe and will be online for client
use in January 2015. Collaboration with key client partners is already
underway.
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The world's highest-performing, two-socket server with the Intel (News - Alert)
Xeon E5 2698A v3 processor - Lenovo and Intel collaborated to
create the Intel Xeon E5-2698A v3, a CPU optimized for HPC workloads
and available only in specially designed servers such as the NeXtScaleTM
System with Water Cool Technology (WCT). The Intel E5-2698A v3, when
installed in the NeXtScale with WTC, is the industry's
highest-performing, two-socket server platform1,
effectively breaking the single-node one teraflop barrier (1.083
teraflops) without the need for accelerators. The unique processor
features 16 cores running at up to 3.2GHz with turbo mode enabled. In
addition to record-setting performance, NeXtScale with WCT allows
clients to create a green data center that achieves the ultimate
combination of energy efficiency and performance while helping to
lower total cost of ownership. Owing to the extreme efficiency of the
water-cooled thermal design, processors running in the NeXtScale with
WCT can reduce power consumption at a processor level by six percent
and at a data-center level by more than 40 percent, as most
installations can run without the need for costly chilled-water
systems.
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A futuristic petaflop demonstration - Lenovo's "peta cube"
demonstration showcases how one petaflop of performance - initially
supported by nearly 6,000 square feet with 296 racks weighing upwards
of half a million pounds - will soon be available within a condensed
42U tall, four foot- by-four foot space comprised of two standard
racks. This unique engineering leverages NeXtScale System with WCT and
Intel Knights Landing technology to deliver huge computing capacity in
only two racks of space. The capability will allow Lenovo to provide
petaflop compute capacity to mainstream clients that might currently
lack the operating budget and data-center capacity to support a
petaflop system.
Those attending SC14 this week can learn more by visiting Lenovo at
booth #1749.
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About Lenovo
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500 company and a leader in providing innovative consumer, commercial,
and enterprise technology. Our portfolio of high-quality, secure
products and services covers PCs (including the legendary Think and
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1 As measured by LinPACK for a system without any
accelerators.
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