Lenovo to integrate NVIDIA's full AI stack into its own solution on top of new Blackwell-ready hardware

One of the major highlights at Lenovo Tech World 2024 was the announcement of expanded AI collaborations with NVIDIA, focusing on enterprise and industrial solutions.

For consumer-focused initiatives, Lenovo introduced the 'Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with NVIDIA' offering full-stack AI capabilities and a library of customizable AI solutions. This aims to address the challenge identified in a Lenovo study, which found that 61% of CIOs struggle to demonstrate ROI from AI investments. The collaboration with NVIDIA, the leading AI company globally, aims to tackle this issue by providing robust support.

The partnership also enhances Lenovo AI Fast Start, which accelerates AI deployment by helping businesses validate AI use cases across Personal AI, Enterprise AI, and Public AI platforms within weeks. Powered by the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform, including tools like NVIDIA NIM microservices and NVIDIA NeMo, it facilitates the rapid development and deployment of generative AI solutions tailored to specific business needs, ensuring relevance and scalability.

Additionally, Lenovo’s AI Library offers a suite of proven AI use case accelerators, covering areas like marketing, IT operations, legal, product development, and customer service, all built on NVIDIA AI Enterprise. It will soon integrate NVIDIA Omniverse for fully customizable solutions, and there are plans to collaborate with other AI innovators to incorporate NVIDIA NIM Agent Blueprints in the future.

For businesses facing difficulties in adopting or extracting value from AI technologies, Lenovo offers its Data and Technology Foundations for AI service. This helps organizations assess their AI readiness and modernize their data, applications, and cloud infrastructure. Leveraging NVIDIA’s accelerated computing, networking, software, and AI models, Lenovo helps customers maximize the value of their AI investments.

In terms of hardware, Lenovo will introduce the ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune chassis, featuring 6th-generation vertical liquid cooling technology, and the ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune, equipped with NVIDIA’s upcoming Blackwell GPUs. The duo, when combined, enable 100KW+ server racks to function without specialized air conditioning, marking a significant shift in data center design by focusing on cooling efficiency for AI-driven workloads.

The ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune chassis is designed for standard 19-inch racks and eliminates the need for cooling fans, reducing the total cost of ownership for businesses and data centers ready to adopt Blackwell. It is highly flexible and scalable, ranging from a 13U enclosure to full racks, with eight tray slots and four 15kW power conversion stations for maximum efficiency.

The ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune also supports NVIDIA’s next-gen Quantum-X800 InfiniBand and Spectrum-X800 Ethernet platforms for high-performance networking, as well as NVIDIA AI Enterprise, a cloud-native platform designed to streamline AI solution development and deployment.

With this hardware and partnership, Lenovo offers an alternative in bringing NVIDIA GB200 rack systems to the enterprise market, delivering advanced cooling solutions that keep system components running at optimal temperatures for top-tier AI training and computing performance.

Additionally, Lenovo provides its own TruScale GPUaaS, offering on-demand GPU services with no upfront costs, along with Lenovo Power and Cooling Services to optimize AI workloads.

Further details about this announcement can be found here.