The new Lenovo ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune chassis reshapes water cooling and data centre design with 100% heat removal, enabling customers to run 100KW+ server racks without specialised air conditioning.
Lenovo recently unveiled the ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune – a 6th-generation vertical liquid cooling breakthrough. Rolling out across the company’s partner ecosystem, it enables organisations to build and run accelerated computing for Generative AI while reducing data centre power consumption by up to 40%.
Lenovo also expanded its longstanding collaboration with NVIDIA by announcing Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with NVIDIA and unveiled the ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune. This new system leverages the new ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune to help bring NVIDIA Blackwell and the NVIDIA GB200 to the enterprise market, enabling trillion-parameter AI models in a compact design.
As AI adoption increases, data centres need to be re-engineered for higher thermal densities. With ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune and the new ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune, Lenovo is pioneering data centres in which 100KW+ server racks are running without the need for specialised data centre air conditioning. The innovation is pivotal in advancing new data centre designs that support more dense iron and repurpose power for cooling in the age of AI.
With ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune, data centre power is maximised for AI and research, not for system cooling. The technology uses a reimagined vertical liquid cooling chassis to deliver accelerated computing with advanced efficiency in a compact system that is 100% liquid-cooled, eliminating the need for power-consuming fans. Designed for industry-standard 19-inch racks, organisations of any size can now leverage the highest accelerated computing available one tray at a time using standard power in an open ecosystem.
The ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune supports the next-generation NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and Spectrum-X800 Ethernet platforms for high-performance accelerated networking. In addition, the ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune supports NVIDIA AI Enterprise, a cloud-native software platform that streamlines development and deployment of production-grade AI solutions, including generative AI, computer vision and speech AI.
Bringing NVIDIA GB200 to the enterprise market with 100% heat removal
Lenovo will deliver NVIDIA GB200 rack systems that supercharge AI training, data processing, engineering design and simulation. Featuring open-loop, direct warm-water cooling for the entire NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell system architecture with NVIDIA NVLink interconnect, enterprise customers of any size can use the Lenovo ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune to run trillion-parameter AI models that bring products to market faster, at lower cost and with higher energy efficiency.
With advanced water cooling, the new ThinkSystem server allows critical components to operate at lower temperatures and effectively removes all heat from all components, including GPUs, memory, I/O, local storage and voltage regulators. Combined, the innovations enable AI training and real-time LLM inference for models scaling up to 10 trillion parameters while increasing performance, energy efficiency and reliability in a compact, ultra-quiet system.
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