Lenovo Dense Servers for the next generation: the NeXtScale System

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Lenovo Dense Servers
NeXtScale System
Delivering Insight Faster
Patrick Moakley, Director of Product Marketing – Dense Systems
March 2016
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Lenovo NeXtScale System
 Make better decisions by running larger, more sophisticated models
 Spot trends faster and more effectively by reducing total time to results
 Manage risk better by increasing accuracy and visibility of models and datasets
 NeXtScale does this with efficient hardware, control beyond the server and
powerful energy management
NeXtScale System provides the scale, power and density to help
clients solve problems faster

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NeXtScale Value
 Ultra-Dense for customers who want to
quickly scale large numbers of systems
 6U chassis with 12 node bays
 Up to 84 servers per rack
 Streamlined “Essentials Only” design
for extreme scalability
 Cost optimized chassis, server nodes and
options
 For customers who just want “the basics”
 Optimized for power savings
 Efficiency across chassis & nodes
 Lowers power consumed 8-18%1
 Water Cooled Option saves up to 40%5

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Lenovo NeXtScale Systems
 Scalable and simple platform that delivers
easy expandability from small clusters to
large grids
 Powerful HPC capabilities for workloads in
analytics, scientific, modeling and big data
 Extreme Density with twice as many
servers per rack as 1U rack systems
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NeXtScale n1200 Enclosure
NeXtScale nx360 M5 Node
NeXtScale 2U GPU/Storage NeX
Nx360 M5 + Storage & GPUs
Big Data and
Analytics
Financial &
Scientific
Modeling
HPC Research
Enterprise
Apps

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NeXtScale Systems ‒ Delivering Critical Insight Faster
NeXtScale nx360 M5NeXtScale n1200 Enclosure NeXtScale nx360 M5 with PCI NeX
Scalable Powerful Dense
Up to 84 nx360 M5 nodes in a
standard rack; 2X the density of
1U rack systems
Broadest array of GPGPU,
accelerator support
33% higher GPU density with
2U NeX tray
12%Faster Memory vs.
previous generation2
22%More Cores vs.

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Lenovo NeXtScale nx360 M5 Compute Node
Delivering Critical Insights Faster
Lenovo Trusted
Platform Assurance
• Leverage flexible node configurations with NeX
expansion trays for acceleration, storage or both
• Simplify and centralize enterprise systems management
and increase data center agility with Lenovo XClarity
• #1 Reliability industry-wide – Maximize uptime with
Enhanced Predictive Failure Analysis, Light Path
Diagnostics
 Nearly 3,700 cores, and 43 TB of DDR4 memory in 42U rack
 2P Intel Xeon E5-2600 v4 (44 cores) with TruDDR4 Memory
(up to 32GB DIMMs, 512 GB), 2400 MHz
 2X the density of 1U Rack Systems, up to 84 per rack
Big Data and
Analytics
Financial &
Scientific
Modeling
HPC Research
Enterprise
Apps
44%
Faster Computational
Fluid Dynamics vs.

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xCAT
• Provides remote & unattended methods to
assist with Deploying, Updating, Configuring,
and Diagnosing
ToolsCenter
• Consolidated, integrated set of management tools
• Powerful bootable media creator, FW updating
Platform Computing
• Workloads managed seamlessly w/Platform LSF
• Deploy clusters easily with Platform HPC
SDN Friendly
• Networking direct to system; no integrated
proprietary switching
• Support for 1/10/40Gb, InfiniBand, FCoE, & VFAs
UEFi and iMM
• Standards-based hardware that combines
diagnostic and remote control; No embedded SW
• Richer management experience and future-ready
OpenStack Ready
• Deploy OpenStack with Chef or Puppet
• Mirantis Fuel, SuSE Cloud, IBM SmartCloud
IPMI 2.0 Compliant
• Use any IPMI compliant mgt. software –
Puppet, Avocent, IBM Director, iAMT, xCAT, etc.
• OpenIPMI, ipmitool, ipmiutils, FreeIPMI
compatible
System Monitoring
• Friendly with open source tools like Ganglia,
Nagios, Zenoss, etc.
• Use with any RHEL/SuSE (and clones) or
Windows based tools.
Designed on Open Standards
Delivering Seamless Integration

NeXtScale Details
Product Descriptions, Benefits, Differentiators, Features,
Specifications

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Characteristics
 6U, 12 half-wide bays – 2X the density
of standard rack servers
 Enclosure delivers power and cooling
only- no chassis management needed
 Mix and match servers, storage, GPU’s
and PCI cards to customize configs
 Power Optimized design saves 8-18%1
 80 Plus Platinum power supplies
 Smart sharing of fans and PSUs
 Extreme efficiency voltage regulation
 Larger, more efficient heat sinks
Simplified design for optimal scale

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NeXtScale: Built for Density and Scale
 Small and powerful
 Smaller footprint servers
 Pack 2X the servers into the same
floor/rack space
 Saves on real estate costs
 Saves on management costs
 Enclosure integrated power & cooling
 75% fewer PSU’s - energy efficient
 Water Cooled Technology (WCT) Option
 Easy Scalability
 Add nodes to the enclosure
 Add enclosures to the rack
 Add racks to the data center
12U
24 Power
Supplies
12 2P Rack Servers
6U
6 Power
Supplies
12 2P NeXtScale Servers

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NeXtScale - Choice of Air or Water Cooling
NeXtScale System
 Innovative direct water cooling
 No internal fans
 Extremely energy efficient
 Extremely quiet
 Lower power
 Dense, small footprint
 Lower operational cost and TCO
 Ideal for geographies with high electricity
costs or space constraints
 Air cooled, internal fans
 Fits in any datacenter
 Maximum flexibility
 Broadest choice of configurable
options supported
 Supports Native Expansion nodes
 Storage NeX
 PCI NeX (GPU, Phi)
Air Cool Water Cool Technology
Your
Choice

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NeXtScale nx360 M5 Compute Node
Customer Benefits
 Simple, “essentials only” half-wide
design saves cost, weight, & rack space
 NeX (Native Expansion) to easily add
storage or PCI, like GPU’s
 Front access KVM, networking for
easier management & deployment
 Front-access labeling tag for easier
asset tracking and management
 Choice of either 2 HS HDD’s or single
PCI models
nx360 M5
2 Hot-Swap
SFF HDDs or
SSDs
Std full-high,
half-length PCIe
3.0 Slot
Great things come in small packages
Target Workloads
Big Data
and
Analytics
Financial &
Scientific
Modeling
HPC Research
Enterprise
Apps
Database

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nx360 M5 WCT Compute Tray (2 nodes)
Power,
LEDsDual-port ML2
(IB/Ethernet)
Labeling
tag
1 GbE
ports
PCI slot for
Connect IB
CPU
with
liquid
cooled
heatsink
Cooling
tubes
x16
DIMMs
1 GbE
ports
n1200 WCT Enclosure
6 full wide bays
12 compute nodes
n1200 WCT Manifold
Systeminfrastructure
Water Cool Node & Chassis
 Full wide, 2-node compute tray
 6U Chassis, 6 bays (12
nodes/chassis)
 Manifolds deliver water directly to
nodes
 Water circulated through cooling
tubes for component level cooling
 Intel E5-2600 v3 CPUs
 16x DDR4 DIMM slots
 InfiniBand FDR support (ML2 or PCIe)
 6x 900W or 1300W PSU
 No fans except PSUs
 Drip sensor / Error LEDs
NeXtScale System with Water Cool Technology (WCT)

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Simple: “Essentials Only” Design
 Only includes the essentials
 Two production 1Gb Intel NICs; dedicated or shared 1Gb
for management
 Standard PCI card support
 Flexible ML2/Mezzanine for IO expansion
 Power, Basic LightPath, and KVM crash cart access
 Simple ‘pull out’ asset tag for naming or RFID
 Not painted black  just left as silver
 Clean, simple, and low cost
 Blade-like weight/size – rack server like individuality/control
 NeXtScale delivers basic, performance -centric IT
“I can’t see my servers, don’t care what color they are”
“I don’t use 24 DIMMs why pay for a system to hold them?”
“I only need RAID mirror for OS don’t want extra HDD bays”
“I only need a few basic PCI/IO options”
NeXtScale nx360 M5
Target Workloads
Big Data
and
Analytics
Financial &
Scientific
Modeling
HPC Research
Enterprise
Apps

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NeXtScale PCI Native Expansion (NeX)
 Half Wide, 1U Tall PCI Native Expansion (NeX)
 2 full height full length PCI slots for GPUs and Intel Xeon Phi adapters
 GPU support: NVIDIA K80, K40, GRID K1, GRID K2
 Intel Xeon Phi support: 7120p
 Requires 1300W PSUs in n1200 chassis
 CUSTOMER BENEFITS:
 Simply attach NeX to the top of the compute node
 Single architecture for compute, storage, and acceleration
 Low cost PCI NeX that can be attached to existing nodes
 Sweet spot GPU density with up to 2 per node
PCIe Node
nx360 M5 server
+
PCIe Native Expansion (NeX)
1/2 Wide, 2U Tall
PCIe Native
Expansion (NeX) with
GPU’s
Achieve extreme acceleration with GPUs
Target Workloads
Financial &
Scientific
Modeling
HPC Research

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NeXtScale Storage Native Expansion (NeX)
 Half Wide, 1U Tall Storage Native Expansion (NeX)
 7 additional 3.5” drives (Total of up to 11 per node)
 Up to 12Gb/sec data transfer rate
 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6TB HDDs
 CLIENT BENEFITS:
 Simply attach NeX to the top of the compute node
 Single architecture for compute, storage, and acceleration
 Sweet spot storage density with up to 66TB capacity
 Low cost RAID/Non RAID option (RAID 0,1,5)
 >2VMs/Core with up to 256GB memory density Storage Node
nx360 M5 server
+
Storage Native Expansion (NeX)
1/2 Wide, 2U Tall
Storage Native
Expansion (NeX)
Dense Storage Node with up to 66TB per node disk capacity
Target Workloads
Big Data and
Analytics
HPC
Enterprise
Apps

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NeXtScale 2U GPU/Storage NeX
GPU
Compute
Node
4x HS HDDs
• Half-wide, 2U high Native Expansion tray attaches above a NeXtScale nx360 M5
compute node.
• Supports up to 4x GPU cards (up to 300W each) via 2x 3U risers connecting to PCI slots
on the compute node.
• Delivers a 2/1 GPU/CPU capability
• Enables density of 2.67 GPUs / U (16 GPUs / 6U enclosure)
• Includes one HDD cage supporting 4x 2.5” front Hot-Swap HDD.
Supported Cards:
• Intel Xeon Phi 7120P
• NVIDIA Grid K1, K2
• NVIDIA Tesla K10, K40, K80
GPU
Four GPU Capacity +
Onboard Storage

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NeXtScale or Flex System?
Lenovo offers dense systems to address different customer needs
Target Workloads: NeXtScale
 6U/ 12 servers max, up to 6 PSU’s
 Integrated, shared power & cooling
 Networking on Nodes
 Extensive GPGPU support
 “Just the Basics” design
 2P nodes only
Flex System Enterprise Chassis
 10U/ 14 servers max, up to 6 PSU’s
 Integrated, shared power & cooling,
networking and chassis management
 Carrier-Grade option
 Highly integrated, next-decade design
 2P, 4P and scalable to 8P nodes
Target Workloads: Flex System
Big Data
and
Analytics
Financial &
Scientific
Modeling
HPC Research
Enterprise
Apps
Database
Consol-
idation
Virtual-
ization
Infra-
structure
Cloud
Enterprise
Apps

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Lenovo Dense Systems
NeXtScale ThinkServer sd350 2U4N
Ultra-Dense 6U12N system supporting top bin CPUs
with extensive GPGPU support.
Water-cooled option.
Perfect for HPC and similar compute-intensive
workloads.
Ultra-Dense, cost effective, 2U4N system
supporting mid-tier CPUs
Lots of direct attach storage.
Perfect for Hyper-converged solutions and
distributed enterprise.
NeXtScale nx360 M5 with PCI NeX
NeXtScale nx360 M5

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HPC Solutions built on NeXtScale
Leading HPC ISVs using NeXtScale as their platform of choice
Genomic Research - Easy to use, performance optimized solution architected
for CLC bio Genomic Server and Workbench software.
Risk Management - Optimized high-performance
solution for risk analytics
Modeling - high-performance simulation environment for
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Structural Mechanical
Links to papers and reference architectures in footnote section

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NeXtScale Highlights
Simple
Addition of storage
and GPU’s
80%
less racks per solution4
2X
the density of 1U rack
servers
44%
Faster Computational Fluid
Dynamics vs. previous generation3
90% fewer fans and
75% fewer power
supplies than 1U rack servers
Less is More!

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Customer Reference: Caris Life Sciences
Rapidly deploys a high-performance computing solution to advance
personalized care for patients
Client success summary
As it worked to transform personalized cancer treatment, Caris Life Sciences needed to more efficiently
process, analyze, manage and store terabytes of laboratory-generated data each day. The NeXtScale
solution enabled Caris Life Sciences to speed up the quest for better treatment options for patients with
an improved ability to make sense of vast, complex and ever-changing volumes of molecular data
“One of the key features of the
architecture that attracted us to the
NeXtScale System was the fully
integrated information storage
system. Couple that with the
underlying core processing speed
and you have a very robust system
capable of doing a massive amount
of multi-threaded analysis on this
incredible dataset that we generate
every day” —
Dr. David Spetzler, Vice President of Research and
Development, Caris Life Sciences
Solution components
Hardware
• NeXtScale System nx360 M4
Software
• IBM® General Parallel File System
(GPFS™)
• IBM Platform™ HPC
Business Partner
• Re-Store

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Customer Reference: University of Notre Dame
Center for Research Computing
Building a high-performance computing landscape for
multi-disciplinary research
The Center for Research Computing (CRC) at the University of Notre Dame is an innovative and
multidisciplinary research environment in data intensive areas spanning engineering, life and geospatial
sciences.
With the NeXtScale System cluster in place, the CRC is able to support exciting new research projects in a
wide variety of fields. For example, as part of the multi-scale/multi-physics initiative, materials science
researchers at Notre Dame are working on shockwave processing of advanced reactive materials.
““Over the past five years, our user-
base has grown five-fold, from 300
to 1,500, and the number of cores in
our cluster has grown from 8,000 to
more than 20,000. The NeXtScale
System gives us the platform we
need to keep up with ever-growing
demands.
Dr. Jarek Nabrzyski,
Director of the Center for Research Computing,
University of Notre Dame
Solution components
Hardware
• NeXtScale System nx360 Nodes
with Intel Xeon processors
• 10 Cores per CPU/20 per node
• 2GB of memory per node
• Mellanox FDR Infiband
Software
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.X
• Extreme Cluster/Cloud
Administration Toolkit (xCAT)

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University of Oxford
Supporting world-class academic research with Lenovo supercomputer
The University of Oxford, renowned for its academic excellence, wanted to better support
researchers from all faculties. With its existing cluster struggling to cope with growing
demand for high performance computing, the university worked with Lenovo and OCF to
deploy a Lenovo NeXtScale System M5 cluster with over 5,000 Intel processor cores.
With the Lenovo solution, the university can now offer researchers from a wide range of
disciplines a truly state-of-the-art research tool, helping to maintain its sparkling
reputation.
“The Lenovo supercomputer
is helping the University of
Oxford maintain its excellent
reputation for research.”
— Dr. Andrew Richards, Head of
Advanced Research Computing,
University of Oxford
Solution components
Hardware
• Lenovo NeXtScaleTM System
nx360 M5
• Lenovo RackSwitchTM G8332
Software
• SLURM Workload Manager
Education
Read the Case Study

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Customer Reference: STFC Hartree Centre
Advances UK business with high-performance computing on NeXtScale System
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is a publicly funded research council based in the
United Kingdom, and one of the largest multi-disciplinary research organizations in Europe. The STFC
Hartree Centre needed a powerful, flexible server system with maximum usable density that could drive
research in energy efficiency as well as economic impact for its clients
By combining computing power with reduced energy use, the STFC Hartree Centre expects the NeXtScale
System to drive its research in energy efficiency.
““We can do more in simulation and
modeling than by traditional methods.
And because we’re not creating a
physical object, we can actually
reduce the cost to the client. We
anticipate that the NeXtScale System
will give us a number of opportunities
to tune software code to be more
efficient, run faster and consume less
energy,”
Cliff Brereton, director of the STFC Hartree Centre.
Solution components
Hardware
• NeXtScale System nx360 M4 Nodes
• Intel Xeon processors
• System x GPFS Storage Server
Software
• IBM® Platform™ Computing
• IBM General Parallel File System
(GPFS™)
Read the Case Study

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Summary
Lenovo NeXtScale System was designed to be an ultra-dese solution for customer who
want large, affordable scalability, without frills or extras. NeXtScale delivers the
affordability of rack servers with the power savings of a blade architecture, with better
density than both. NeXtScale delivers high-performance computing in a small package.

Useful Links
Product Information Datasheets, brochures,
Videos, Case Studies and Papers are all
located in the Lenovo Server & Storage
Resource Library
lenovo.com
For more
information
contact your
Lenovo sales
representative
• Caris Life Sciences Solution Case Study
and Video Overview
• SFTC Hartree Case Study
• University of Notre Dame CTC Case Study
• CLC Bio solution brief and reference
architecture
• Algorithmics analyst paper and reference
architecture
• Ansys solution brief and reference architecture.

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Footnotes
1. 8-18% figure from the following:
A. 80 Plus Platinum power supplies at over 94% efficiency – saves 3-10%
B. Extreme efficiency voltage regulation – saves 2-3%
C. Larger, more efficient heat sinks require less air – saves 1-2%
D. Smart sharing of fans and power supplies reduce power consumption – saves 2-3
2. Intel E5-2600 v4 supports up to 22 cores per CPU vs. 18 for v3; v4 also supports 2400MHz memory vs. 2133 MHz for v3
3. Intel testing of E5-2600 v4. Simulation HiFUN - CFD - Aerospace:1-Node, 2 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v3 on Grantley-EP (Wellsburg) with
32 GB Total Memory on Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 7.1 kernel 3.10.0-229 using (error). Data Source: Request Number: 1960, Benchmark: Simulation
HiFUN - CFD - Aerospace, Score: 1 vs. 1-Node, 2 x Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2697 v4 on Grantley-EP (Wellsburg) with 32 GB Total Memory on
Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 7.1 kernel 3.10.0-229 using (error). Data Source: Request Number: 1960, Benchmark: Simulation HiFUN - CFD -
Aerospace, Score: 1 Lower is better
4. As compared to a a traditional 1U server like HP DL360 Gen 8 Weight (maximum config) 17.69kg (39lbs) nominal configuration 13Kgs for
comparison. Versus NeXtScale nx360 M4 (6 kg) + apportioned chassis (39kg/12 or 3.25kg) = 9.25kg maximum. 9.25 v 13= 40% more weight using
1Us versus NeXtScale nx36 M4for similar processing power.
5. Based on comparisons between air-cooled iDataPlex M4 server and water-cooled iDataPlex M4 servers

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