Lenovo, in collaboration with NVIDIA, has announced new hybrid artificial intelligence (AI) solutions at NVIDIA Global Telco Consult (GTC). The solutions deliver power of tailored generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications to every enterprise and cloud, bringing transformational capabilities to every industry. Innovations help enterprises and cloud providers with critical accelerated computing capabilities needed to succeed in the AI era, taking AI from concept to reality and empowering businesses to efficiently develop and deploy new AI use cases that drive innovation, digitalisation, and growth.
Commenting on the collaboration, Sumir Bhatia, president, Asia Pacific (AP), infrastructure solutions group (ISG), Lenovo,, said, “As we witness the unveiling of our groundbreaking AI solutions in collaboration with NVIDIA, we are particularly proud of our commitment to sustainability and energy efficiency. By pioneering innovative cooling technologies and designing systems with minimal environmental impact, Lenovo is not only advancing AI capabilities but also leading charge toward a greener, more sustainable future. This partnership underscores our dedication to driving positive change and delivering responsible, high-performance computing solutions to businesses worldwide.”
The hybrid solutions are purpose built through engineering collaboration to efficiently bring AI to customer data, where and when users need it the most, from pocket to the cloud, advancing Lenovo’s vision to enable AI for all and delivering time to market support of breakthrough architecture for next generation of massive scale GenAI. Lenovo hybrid solutions, already optimised to run NVIDIA AI enterprise software for secure, supported, and stable production AI, will now also provide developers access to just-announced NVIDIA microservices, including NVIDIA NIM and NeMo Retriever.
Meanwhile, Amit Luthra, managing director, Lenovo ISG, India, said, “As Lenovo introduces its latest hybrid AI solutions in partnership with NVIDIA, we are excited to bring potential of tailored GenAI applications to enterprises and clouds across India. This collaboration represents a pivotal moment in our commitment to empowering businesses in India with transformative AI capabilities. By leveraging advancements in real- time computing and power efficiency, Lenovo aims to democratise AI, fostering innovation, digital transformation, and economic growth within the Indian market.”
As industries around the globe seek to use AI for analysing vast bodies of data, power efficiency remains crucial to making the rollout of these compute-intensive workloads accessible for all businesses. Lenovo has been at forefront of enabling efficient, high-power computing without compromise, pioneering Lenovo NeptuneTM liquid cooling technology and ranking one on Green500 list for cutting-edge designs powered by NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) that accelerate computing capabilities while keeping things cool even in high- heat, multi-GPU environments.
Lenovo has launched the expansion of Lenovo ThinkSystem AI portfolio, featuring two new powerful 8-way NVIDIA GPU systems that are purpose-built to deliver massive computational capabilities with uncompromised power efficiency to accelerate AI implementation. Engineered for GenAI, natural language processing (NLP), and large language model (LLM) development, with time-to-market support for NVIDIA HGX AI supercomputing platform, including NVIDIA H100 and H200 Tensor Core GPUs and all-new NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB200 Superchip, as well as the advanced, next-generation NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and Spectrum-X800 Ethernet networking platforms.
Lenovo ThinkSystem AI servers with NVIDIA B200 Tensor Core GPUs are set to power the new era of GenAI. NVIDIA Blackwell architecture’s GenAI Engine, alongside faster NVIDIA NVLink interconnect and enhanced security capabilities, propel the data centre into a new era. With up to 25 times more real-time inference to accelerate trillion-parameter language models, B200 GPUs are designed for the most demanding AI, data analytics and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.
With an ultra-efficient power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1, new Lenovo ThinkSystem SR780aV3 is a 5U system that uses Lenovo NeptuneTM liquid cooling. By using direct water cooling of central processing unit (CPU) and GPUs and NVIDIA NVSwitch technology, the system can sustain maximum performance without hitting any thermal limits. For more than a decade, Lenovo’s Lenovo Neptune direct water-cooling solution, which recycles loops of warm water to cool data centre systems, enabling customers to realise up to a 40 per cent reduction in power consumption and a 3.5 times improvement in thermal efficiencies compared to traditional air-cooled systems.
Also accelerating the portfolio, Lenovo ThinkSystem SR680a V3 is an air-cooled, two-socket system built for maximum acceleration for complex AI with Intel processors and a choice of NVIDIA GPUs. The highly accelerated systems deliver massive computational capability and use industry- standard 19-inch server racks, allowing for dense hardware configurations that maximise efficiency without occupying excessive floor space or requiring shelving. For high-performance inference on popular AI models from NVIDIA and its ecosystem, customers can run NVIDIA NIM inference microservices included in NVIDIA AI enterprise on Lenovo enterprise infrastructure.
The portfolio includes Lenovo’s XClarity Systems Management, giving businesses a simplified and centralised resource management system, as well as Lenovo’s Intelligent Computing Orchestration (LiCO), a unified platform that streamlines use of clustered computing resources for AI model development and training and HPC workloads. The portfolio also supports the 4th and 5th generation of Intel xeon scalable processors and provides thermal headroom for future higher-power GPUs.
To help companies quickly build and deploy a wide range of purpose-built AI, HPC and Omniverse applications, Lenovo has collaborated with NVIDIA to build accelerated models faster using NVIDIA MGX modular reference designs. Leveraging the designs, cloud service providers receive customised models faster with the delivery of accelerated computing for AI and Omniverse workloads economically and at scale. Including time-to-market support for the NVIDIA H200 GPU, the systems will enable scientists and researchers to tackle the world’s most challenging problems by accelerating complex AI and HPC applications running terabytes of data.
Lenovo’s new offerings built with the NVIDIA MGX modular reference server design include:
- New Lenovo HG630N – MGX 1U: An open-standard server with Lenovo Neptune direct liquid cooling to reduce power consumption while supporting the highest-performing GPUs.
- New Lenovo HG650N – MGX 2U: A highly modular, GPU-optimised system that is air-cooled, supports industry-standard racks, and enables NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip deployments.
- New Lenovo HG660X V3 – MGX 4U: A system that supports up to 8 600W NVIDIA GPUs in an air- cooled environment, ideal for NVIDIA Omniverse and AI workloads. Lenovo is a NVIDIA design partner for MGX 4U.
- New Lenovo HR650N – MGX 2U: A high-performing Arm CPU server with multiple cores and flexibility for storage and front input/ output (IO), leveraging the energy-efficient NVIDIAGrace CPU superchip and supporting data processing units (DPUs).
Lenovo’s real-time solutions powered by NVIDIA are using AI and Lenovo infrastructure to help customers accelerate smarter futures and realise new potential across industries. In retail, these solutions are analysing customer movement and behaviour to improve traffic flow and better manage inventory in real time. In manufacturing, integrated Lenovo and NVIDIA solutions help improve safety between workers and machines by refining assembly line inspection processes. Across cities, integrated Lenovo edge AI solutions are helping city planners to get the most out of data by optimising space, infrastructure, and asset utilisation to help manage people in traffic flows and reduce power consumption.
Lenovo’s announced AI services centre of excellence (CoE) combines business advisors, data scientists, and AI-optimised infrastructure as-a-service to maximise outcomes, meeting customers where they are on their AI journey. Following Lenovo’s proven AI-readiness methodology covering security, people, process, and technology, AI CoE offers the expertise and capabilities to enable businesses to fast-track their journey to implementing powerful, responsible, and sustainable AI. Lenovo’s new AI professional services offerings include:
- New AI discover: Helps customers uncover the art of the possible for AI. By conducting interactive workshops and assessments, looking across the entire ecosystem, and mapping out AI strategy, Lenovo builds the blueprint for AI success.
- New Fast Start GenAI services with NVIDIA: Leverages powerful data insights and achieves a competitive advantage with GenAI. Lenovo offers full-stack solutions to support the complete product lifecycle, plus services to implement, adopt, and scale GenAI solutions.
- New TruScale GenAI as-a-service: Provides AI capabilities through a service model which increases flexibility, scalability, and predictability. With Lenovo TruScale, infrastructure is always right sized to procure, deploy and manage AI Innovation.
- Enhanced professional services for AI: Helps customers accelerate their AI transformation by providing business advisors, data scientists, and AI-optimised infrastructure-as-a-service, ensuring a seamless utilisation of sustainable AI.
