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On May 20, Lenovo launched a brand refurbishment campaign with the theme of "Lenovo solution Service, accompanying every step of Intelligent Transformation". A new round of brand advertisements hit 172 screens in the country's top 10 cities. including: Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Shenyang, Chengdu, Changsha, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Xi'an.

It is reported that this is the second round of brand renovation campaign launched by Lenovo this year. Different from the past, this brand renovation campaign focuses more on the ability of computing solutions and services through the introduction of three key case customers of Geely, Nanjing University and Zoomlion, as well as the top three contents of Lenovo servers in the world. especially in the field of high-performance computing.

As the world's largest high-performance computing provider, Lenovo relies on its own technological innovation advantages to promote Lenovo computing services to build its own competitive advantage, and set a new industry benchmark.

We note that both Geely and Nanjing University have adopted Lenovo's high-performance computing solution in the brand renovation campaign. At the same time, in the Lenovo brand renovation content, the + sign appears in the upper right corner of the word "Lenovo solution Service". Lenovo says that its meaning is Lenovo plus all enterprises to provide intelligent transformation services for all enterprises. accompany every step of the intelligent transformation of enterprises.

Lenovo high-performance computing is firmly at the top of the world.

In the era of intelligent change caused by digital technology, computing power, as the core element of the development of digital economy, plays an important role. As the world's largest provider of high-performance computing solutions, Lenovo Group has been in the field of high-performance computing for more than 20 years, and has become a global leader with continuous technological exploration and extensive industry applications. At present, relying on the strategic layout of "globalization + localization", Lenovo has the design, construction, operation and maintenance capabilities of end-to-end full-stack large-scale data centers ranging from underlying servers, networks, storage and supporting software to end-to-end large-scale data centers such as energy conservation and environmental protection, wind, thermal and hydropower, can provide a combination of server products that can adapt to NVIDIA and Cambrian GPU, provide intelligent computing scheduling, and have made outstanding achievements both internationally and domestically.

Lenovo also has more than 20 years of high-performance computing innovation practice, from the launch of the world's trillionth cluster in 2002 to the birth of the world's first large-scale warm water system in superMUC in 2011, and the first TOP500 list manufacturer for the first time in 2018. Lenovo's high-performance computing power continues to innovate in key technical areas, and its strength is well recognized.

It is understood that Lenovo not only topped the global high-performance computer TOP500 list manufacturer's share for 10 times in a row, but also topped the annual total share of China's high-performance computer TOP for 8 times. At present, Lenovo high-performance computing has deployed more than 60,000 warm water-cooled nodes worldwide, and has applied for nearly 100 national invention patents in high-performance computer system technology.

Prior to this, on ChinaSC 2021 in November 2021, Lenovo won China's "HPC TOP100 Annual Total share Championship" with 40 finalists, won the first place for the seventh time, and was awarded the title of "China Intelligent Computing Leader".

By 2020, Lenovo has successfully implemented a high-performance cluster for tens of thousands of users and twice undertaken the task of building the main node of the Network Computing Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Lenovo's "Deep Teng 1800" cluster system is also the first large-scale high-performance cluster system with an actual speed of more than 1 trillion times in the world.

With the advent of the intelligent era, with the development of chatGPT, Internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and three-dimensional imaging technology, the data scale that many enterprises and organizations need to deal with is growing exponentially, and there is more room for growth in high-performance computing in the future.

Asia is the world's largest market for high-performance computing, which is expected to reach US $17.55 billion in 2026. China is the largest high-performance computing market in the world, with a market share of 34.6% in 2021. From the perspective of Lenovo Group, the overall turnover has increased by 24% in three years, profits have increased by 123%, high-performance computing ranks first in the world, and storage devices rank among the top five in the world.

Lenovo's high-performance computing continues to enhance the advantage of "three axes"

As the company with the first share of high-performance computing, Lenovo's high-performance computing platform deployed around the world is comprehensively helping scientific computing, urban management, artificial intelligence development and other fields to simulate some complex physical phenomena, such as weather, fluid power, molecular interaction, celestial computing and so on. Therefore, the demand for stability and reliability of performance is extremely high.

It is reported that an excellent high-performance cluster often requires the following characteristics: first, to have leading performance, based on the latest processor, storage and network technology, to meet the capacity and performance requirements of the business; secondly, rich construction experience is needed. The third is systematic delivery. In order to run at maximum performance, high-performance computing must allow storage, network, computing and other components to run seamlessly together. If the components can not keep up with each other, the performance of the entire high-performance computing infrastructure will also be affected. Therefore, the delivery of high-performance computing requires not only software and hardware equipment, but also comprehensive solutions and technical services from the system layer to the application software layer to protect the application effect.

We can see that Lenovo continues to build high-performance storage, warm water cooling technology and LiCO resource scheduling module "three axes".

It is understood that at the level of high-performance computing software, Lenovo has created a converged intelligent high-performance computing platform LiCO, which is suitable for high-performance clusters of all sizes, with deployment, monitoring, control, distributed file system management, secondary development and other functions. Users can use LiCO to achieve rapid installation, deployment and real-time management of high-performance computing clusters. At the same time, in order to respond to the application trend of artificial intelligence in various industries, Lenovo also launched a set of LiCO-AI to achieve unified resource scheduling, while supporting high-performance computing and AI job running development platform. In addition, Lenovo's high-performance computing cluster system perfectly supports operating systems such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOs, cluster software systems such as IBM Platform and GPFS, and scientific computing applications in many fields such as MOLPRO and GAUSSIAN, to meet the needs of different industries to the greatest extent.

Lenovo's green, energy-saving and environment-friendly data center uses a comprehensive leading warm water cooling technology, and the perfect data center refrigeration facilities PUE is as low as 1.1. At present, Lenovo high-performance computing has deployed more than 60,000 warm-water-cooled nodes worldwide. It is reported that Lenovo has built a warm-water high-performance computing system for the Leibniz High performance Computing Center in Germany, with peak performance of 26.9 trillion floating-point operations per second, saving more than 20 million euros in operating costs per year compared with traditional air cooling. The high-performance computing platform built by Lenovo for the Beijing Meteorological Bureau is composed of 800 servers, which can reach the accuracy of 100 meters and minutes.

In the field of storage, Lenovo has a comprehensive leading high-performance storage scheme, which is suitable for different high-performance application scenarios. Lenovo's industry-leading continuous read and write bandwidth overwhelms its competitors' single-stream performance and excellent IOPS performance, fully meeting all kinds of application scenarios of high performance computing power ji. In the case of Nanjing University, the high-performance computing system can meet the storage needs of PB-level massive data files through full SSD distributed parallel storage and stable, reliable and high-performance GPFS parallel file system. According to the latest SSD parallel storage I / O bandwidth test, 15 nodes have a maximum random write 80.21GB / s and a maximum random read 118.35GB / s. From this, we can see.

In terms of computing performance, the high-performance computing center of Nanjing University can achieve a peak of 870 trillion calculations per second and more than 79.62% computing efficiency, making it one of the top high-performance computing centers in domestic colleges and universities. The second phase of the project of the High performance Computing Center of Nanjing University deployed 910 CPU computing nodes with a total of 21840 CPU cores, with a theoretical calculation peak of 870 trillion times per second. The Linpack test efficiency of the system's parallel computing capability is 79.62%. In fact, Lenovo has not only built a high-performance computing center for Nanjing University, but in the past few years, Lenovo has also built high-performance computing systems for universities such as Peking University, Xiamen University, Qinghai University and Southern University of Science and Technology.

Lenovo computing power and solution service accelerate the integration of data and reality

In years of technological breakthroughs and innovative development, Lenovo has broken through the key technologies of high-performance services, including system design and optimization, system architecture / software, etc., not only developed a series of scalable, easy-to-manage, easy-to-use, stable and reliable high-performance computing server products, but also constantly integrated with industries and scenarios at the same time to create solutions that meet the individual needs of users in various industries.

Through ThinkSystem server and Poseidon warm water cooling technology, Lenovo helped Geely Automobile Group build an intelligent simulation platform and build a new ecology of Geely intelligent research and development. The whole set of high-performance computing platform provides intelligent support in process development, logistics simulation, digital dynamic simulation analysis of new models, 3D simulation resource library and lightweight display platform. Help customers get simulation data faster and accelerate the development of new cars, which can effectively reduce TCO (full cycle cost) while ensuring data security.

Lenovo also actively promotes the development of digital industry with its own advantage of high-performance computing. Lenovo creatively launched the Lenovo Zhenxing TruScale "subscription service" model. In this first TruScale project in China, Lenovo uses a new "subscription service" model, which can be purchased on demand and paid by quantity, helping to promote computing power and the development of digital industry.

In addition to the field of computing services, Lenovo relies on the "end-edge-cloud-network-intelligence" new IT architecture through years of accumulation and precipitation to create a new "giant" engine, accompany customers in the process of intelligent transformation throughout the cycle, and provide customers in all walks of life with full stack products, services and solutions to achieve integrated delivery.

Not long ago, Lenovo and China Information and Communication Institute jointly issued the "China Enterprise Intelligent maturity report", and formed a set of enterprise intelligent maturity model from L1-L5 and a set of intelligent transformation methodology, providing one-stop end-to-end companion service for enterprise intelligent transformation.

In addition, Lenovo took the lead in realizing the full-link intelligent capability of "research, production, supply and marketing service" with 39 years of best practices. Lenovo was selected into Gartner global supply chain Top 25 for the eighth time in 2022, ranking ninth. Lenovo is the only high-tech manufacturing company in China and the Asia-Pacific region, and it is also the highest-ranked Chinese company.

While continuously upgrading the full-stack capability of the new IT, Lenovo China has previously made major organizational adjustments to its major customer business groups, focusing on seven major industries, namely, operators, finance, government, manufacturing, education, Internet and key industries; geographically, it has subdivided the national market into 26 war zones, thus establishing an One Lenovo GTM system (integrated sales body) for major customer groups.

Lenovo's integrated software and hardware services can provide customers with customized services to meet different needs at different stages of intelligent transformation. Whether it is strategic planning, technology selection, system integration or application development, it can provide the professional guidance and solution company it needs. Lenovo, as a leader and enabler in the intelligent era, will inherit the mission of science and technology to enable China's intelligent transformation, relying on the new IT full-stack products of end-side-Cloud-Network-Zhi, technology and solutions will add new momentum to the integration of digital reality.

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