An HPC Portfolio to Meet Your Needs

Spanning entry x86 servers through supercomputers, converged storage servers, and intelligent cluster solutions, Lenovo can provide you with the right system to meet your high-performance computing (HPC) and big data needs.

• System x offers a broad portfolio of x86 servers designed to support a wide variety of business and technical applications. System x rack-mount and high-end servers offer an outstanding balance of performance and flexibility for HPC and big data users
    * The System x3550 M5 and System x3650 M5 are ideal for HPC entry through supercomputing needs when ultimate configurability is needed
    * The high-end System x3750 and System x X6 family uniquely offer large memory and storage capacity to address your mission-critical database and high-performance big data workload needs
• NeXtScale System delivers the density, flexibility, and scale needed to cost-effectively process your most demanding workloads. With an integrated architecture approach, you can easily mix and match air- or water-cooled servers, accelerators, and storage in a dense chassis and use industry-standard networking and racks for ultimate cost savings
• Flex System enables you to combine the latest x86 compute nodes with integrated storage, networking, and switch backplane for a robust blade system that’s ideal for enterprise clients
• Lenovo Solution for GPFS Storage Server (GSS) provides a best-in-class, high-performance converged storage platform comprised of System x servers, just a bunch of disks (JBODS), networking, and IBM® GPFS™—the industry-leading enterprise parallel file system for big data management and elastic storage
• Lenovo Intelligent Cluster delivers a factory-integrated, tested, and fully supported cluster. Comprised of best-in-industry components—Lenovo servers, storage, software, networking, and third-party devices—this solution can help you significantly reduce deployment time, risk, and costs

HPC Management Choices

In order to simplify deploying and managing a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster, grid, or HPC cloud, to run more simulators faster, and to minimize data bottlenecks, you should consider deploying HPC management software. Lenovo can provide you with the right software for your needs.

Elastic Storage Management

IBM® General Pallel File System (GPFS™) is the most widely used commercial parallel file system for online storage management, fast, highly scalable data access, and integrated information lifecycle management. GPFS is capable of managing petabytes of data and billions of files without disrupting applications, and is recommended as an integral part of your software-defined storage strategy.

HPC Workload & Resource Management

IBM Platform Computing can help pool your computing resources, manage resources efficiently across multiple clusters, grids, or HPC clouds, and fundamentally help you get the most out of your IT investments. With a broad suite of powerful workload and resource management products designed to work together seamlessly, IBM Platform Computing software, when integrated with Lenovo systems, can help help simplify the deployment, optimization, and management of your high-performance infrastructure.

Broad ISV Ecosystem

Since Lenovo has performed Intel® Cluster Ready testing, you can be confident your Lenovo HPC cluster will run a wide-variety of ISV applications and industry-standard components as it should—right away. Visit the Intel Cluster Ready site for a list of registered software solutions that have been validated through this program.

Lenovo & Third-Party Networking Choices

Networking is an important element of high-performance computing (HPC) clusters and scale-out environments, providing connectivity and increased bandwidth for data exchanged between nodes, racks, and beyond. Today, Ethernet and InfiniBand are the primary technologies used in the industry for building clusters. What’s unique about Lenovo is the level of integration and choice of entry through high-end, low-latency networking products to meet your workload needs.

• Lenovo Networking offers a portfolio of Lenovo-engineered and designed low-latency 1 Gb, 10 Gb, and 40 Gb Ethernet switches, which can be used in building clusters with traditional rack servers, Flex System, and NeXtScale offerings. As a result of being developed in-house, Lenovo Ethernet products deliver exceptional performance and are extremely energy efficient, with attractive pricing.
• Mellanox® offers the industry's most robust InfiniBand and Ethernet portfolio including industry-leading EDR 100 Gb/s InfiniBand switch capable of delivering aggregate data throughput up to 7 Tb/s of non-blocking bandwith with 130 ns port-to-port latency. To provide you with more flexibility, Lenovo sells Mellanox adapters and switches as standalone products or as part of an integrated Lenovo Intelligent Cluster solution.
• Extreme® Networks provides a family of high-performance 1 Gb, 10 Gb, 40 Gb, and 100 Gb Ethernet switching and routing products that can be used extensively in any vertical. Extreme Networks products can also be sold by Lenovo as part of a Lenovo Intelligent Cluster solution.
• Solarflare® offers very low-latency Ethernet adapters, including 10/40 Gb Ethernet, Precision Time Protocol (PTP) adapters, adapters with pre-packed FPGA applications, as well as packet capture and monitoring adapters to secure network data. Solarflare products are widely used in scale-out server environments such as electronic trading, HPC, cloud, virtualization, and big data. Lenovo supports the latest 10 Gb Ethernet adapter, the SFN7122F, as an option, as well as other options via the Lenovo VLH third-party option program.

Better Results, Lower Cost & Faster Time-to-Market

Lenovo offers a broad range of high-performance computing (HPC) solutions to address business and technical challenges across many industries. Learn how Lenovo is helping engineering firms accelerate simulation and analytics, life sciences research and development organizations speed drug discovery and genomics sequencing insights, and financial services firms boost high-frequency trading and risk analytics applications.

Lenovo Solutions for Engineering Analysis

The defense and transportation industries, including automotive, aerospace, rail, and shipping are rapidly changing. Financial pressures are growing while the expectation for innovation remains high with increased pressure for faster time to market.

Lenovo HPC systems, software, and integrated solutions provide you with an optimized high-performance infrastructure and managed environment for your product design and engineering applications. These offerings are ideal platforms to help accelerate the design and simulation of parts, components, or full-body simulations. Lenovo HPC solutions excel at processing and managing industry applications in diverse disciplines such as structural mechanics (structural integrity/vibration analysis/acoustics); computational fluid dynamics (aerodynamics/HVAC/cooling/combustion); explicit analysis (crash/impact); and computer aided design (CAD) via remote 3D Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI).

The Lenovo Solutions for Engineering Analysis offers a flexible, yet powerful approach to configuring and deploying low-cost, high-performance engineering clusters for computer-aided engineering (CAE). Using a domain-specific, building-block approach, Lenovo provides a fast and simple way of ordering and deploying optimized CAE clusters sized to your needs.

Lenovo Solutions for Life Sciences and Healthcare

Personalized healthcare with novel drug and treatment options are advancing at a rapid pace. Healthcare and life sciences organizations are incorporating new methods of big data analysis, drug discovery, and delivery to enable personalized medicine and to deliver diagnoses and treatment regimens based on an individual’s unique genetic makeup reducing side effects and improving patient outcomes. Advancements like these are becoming a reality thanks to new genomic sequencing techniques, big data analysis, and process improvements, which utilize HPC infrastructure for analysis and data management.

Lenovo offers high-performance and large memory systems, software, and solutions to meet the diverse needs of pharmaceutical, genomics, and healthcare companies. Providing an optimized, high-performance infrastructure and managed big data environment, Lenovo HPC solutions for Life Sciences are designed with a building-block approach to simplify cluster management and accelerate time-to-results for all your compute- and data-intensive computing needs.

Lenovo Solutions for Financial Services

With growing regulatory demands and increased focus on risk analysis, financial services companies are looking for better insights into market needs and ways to improve IT performance to meet these demands while reducing operating costs. Banks and other financial firms must constantly assess their risk exposure to comply with current regulations, using complex analysis that requires greater compute resources.

At the same time, brokerage firms, exchanges, and other trading organizations are implementing the latest high-frequency trading solutions to seize emerging opportunities and maximize gains. For these organizations, the race to zero latency continues. Finding new ways to increase workload performance, improve data throughput, and alleviate processing and networking bottlenecks is critical to achieve near-instantaneous decision making. Lenovo can help.

Lenovo and its ecosystem partners offer a broad portfolio of solutions that can help financial services organizations manage risk and capitalize on new opportunities without becoming locked into expensive, complex, proprietary environments. Solutions from Lenovo and its partners range from high-performance servers, storage systems, and networking equipment to file system and grid management software. These offerings enable organizations to accommodate compute- and data-intensive applications and deliver results rapidly.