Lenovo and AMD empower enterprise customers and leading research institutions worldwide with energy-efficient, high-performance computing solutions that enable advanced modeling and simulations and help organizations achieve faster scientific breakthroughs and shorter time-to-market.
As announced at SC25 today, Lenovo has retained its place as the world’s leading supercomputing provider by systems share, coming in as the #1 high-performance computing (HPC) vendor on the TOP500 list of supercomputers. Also announced on the Green500, Lenovo ThinkSystem servers power some of the world’s most energy-efficient supercomputers, including the #1 greenest systems in the Netherlands and Canada, the top two in Turkey, the #2 in North America, and multiple top-three systems in both Germany and Spain.
Lenovo and AMD Propel Scientific and Industrial Advancements
High-performance computing (HPC) continues to transform our understanding of the world. From engineering and thermodynamics to molecular biology and meteorology, HPC helps drive progress in the public and private sectors and sparks research breakthroughs every day.
Lenovo servers, powered by AMD EPYC™ processors, are consistently included on the TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
Lenovo’s Experience in Liquid-Cooling Provides the Platform for Performance and Efficiency
Public institutions are focused on both cost savings and energy efficiency. With two clusters ranked in the top ten of the world’s most energy-efficient supercomputers, Lenovo and AMD deliver outstanding compute density and performance per watt.1 Lenovo Neptune® Liquid Cooling Technology enables supercomputers and other high-performance servers to run faster and more efficiently. By using water to dissipate heat from server clusters, Lenovo Neptune reduces fan speed and air conditioning demands. In addition to easing the pressure on power-constrained data centers, Lenovo cooling technology enables more density within a given physical footprint.
Neptune represents over a decade of Lenovo innovation supporting demanding computing workloads that help deliver scientific breakthroughs. Neptune’s liquid-based technology offers up to 100% heat removal, enabling organizations to maximize performance and system density. 2
Performance Per Watt Doubled for Chile’s National Laboratory
Research institutions use AMD CPU and GPU technology, together with Neptune, to minimize their footprint while enabling high-profile research programs. For example, Chile’s National Laboratory for High Performance Computing (NLHPC) supports researchers in areas such as climate modeling, astrophysics, and genomics.
NLHPC’s cluster is based on Lenovo ThinkSystem servers, featuring AMD EPYC CPUs (with a total of 6,912 cores) and AMD Instinct™ GPUs. Paired with Lenovo Neptune Liquid Cooling technologies, the cluster provides 2x the performance per watt compared to NLHPC’s previous cluster.
“By combining Lenovo Neptune Liquid Cooling technology and high-performance AMD Instinct GPUs, we can run more floating-point operations per second with more energy efficiency,” adds Ginés Guerrero, Executive Head of NLHPC.
This project represents an unprecedented national alliance, uniting 65 academic and industrial institutions to build a robust ecosystem that will foster innovation, enhance productivity in key economic sectors, and accelerate AI adoption across Chile.
The Potsdam Institute Realizes 10x Performance Boost, Tackling Climate Challenges with Sustainable Supercomputing
The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) is another organization using Lenovo and AMD technologies to address real-world challenges and grow in both AI and Machine Learning. PIK is one of the world’s key players in developing integrated models covering the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and the Anthropocene to deliver crucial insights and scientific advice for policy decision-making.
With over 250 Lenovo ThinkSystem servers powered by AMD EPYC processors and featuring Lenovo Neptune direct water cooling (DWC) technology, PIK researchers have seen a 10x performance boost, as well as 5x more computational capacity, compared to their previous cluster. DWC harnesses excess heat from the new cluster to heat 250 employee workspaces, supporting sustainable operations and cutting costs.
“Lenovo and AMD are a winning combination for HPC, with the AMD EPYC™ processors delivering exceptional performance,” comments Karsten Kramer, Head of IT Services and HPC at PIK.
The new HPC solution was implemented by Lenovo Professional Services and pro-com DATENSYSTEME GmbH. PIK is seeing rapid increases in demand for its new GPU services, with around 50% of workload being large language models (LLMs).
Zuse Institute Berlin keeps costs down for AI and research progress
Another joint Lenovo and AMD success story is Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB). Through its MODAL research campus, a public and private partnership connecting businesses to cutting-edge research, ZIB supports over 30 industrial partners. It supports their work in growth areas such as green energy, mobility, healthcare, and nano sciences sectors by running advanced modelling, simulation, and optimization workloads. Expanding its HPC capabilities while staying cost-effective, ZIB deployed 168 Lenovo ThinkSystem servers powered by AMD EPYC processors and with Lenovo Neptune DWC cooling technology, delivering 9 petaflops (PFLOPS) of performance.
“Driven by increasing energy costs, our number one priority is always compute efficiency,” says Dr. Thomas Steinke, Head of Supercomputing at ZIB. “Lenovo designed a solution that uses Lenovo Neptune direct warm water cooling to achieve an impressively high heat absorption in water of 98%. That’s higher than any other system we evaluated, and it keeps our cooling costs down. As a side effect, this also boosts our overall sustainability, and the outstanding performance density means that we still have enough space available for future extensions.”
Today, ZIB runs over 120,000 CPU cores and more than 50 GPU nodes, achieving peak performance by using Lenovo Neptune direct water cooling across its clusters, greatly simplifying heat management in its data center.
Empowering a More Sustainable Future for HPC
With rising energy consumption in data centers becoming a growing concern around the globe, organizations across both academia and industry are turning to Lenovo and AMD to help boost their computational efficiency.
Lenovo offers a range of HPC servers powered by AMD processors, designed to accelerate complex workloads such as computer-aided engineering (CAE), electronic design automation (EDA), and other demanding manufacturing workloads. SC25, November 16-21, is the premier international conference for high performance computing, AI, networking, storage and analysis, attracting more than 18,000 attendees annually. To see how industry leaders like Lenovo and AMD are shaping the future of AI and high-performance computing with their innovative solutions, visit Lenovo at booth #3814 and AMD at booth #2307.