How Lenovo Water Cooling Solutions can Power NVIDIA AI

The next era of Lenovo Neptune Water Cooling aims to efficiently power NVIDIA Blackwell and AI at every scale.

At Tech World, leading technology company Lenovo debuted its ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune, a sixth-generation vertical liquid cooling breakthrough. Designed to power a new era of efficient computing for generative AI (Gen AI) the solution hopes to enable businesses around the world to build and run accelerated computing for Gen AI, alongside reducing data centre power consumption by as much as 40%.

The company also announced Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage in partnership with leading chipmaker Nvidia. The platform is built on Lenovo’s services and infrastructure capabilities with Nvidia AI software and accelerated computing and is designed to help organisations create AI that transforms data into actual business outcomes.

Supporting the NVIDIA Blackwell platform

Lenovo also unveiled a range of additional offerings as part of its Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage. In particular, Lenovo ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune reshapes water cooling and data centre design, according to the company, with 100% heat removal that enables customers to run 100kW+ server racks without specialised air conditioning.

Likewise, Lenovo ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune server helps bring the NVIDIA Blackwell platform to businesses everywhere, supercharging AI training, data processing, engineering design and simulation.  

The company is eager to deliver supercomputing to organisations of all sizes with scalable solutions and services. Expanding its long-term partnership with Nvidia, the company unveiled the ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune, which leverages the new ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune to help bring NVIDIA Blackwell and the NVIDIA GB200 to the enterprise market. 

As AI adoption continues to increase, data centres are having to be reimagined to support these high-intensity workloads. With this in mind, ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune and the new ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune are designed to support 100kW+ server racks without the need for facilities to have specialised air conditioning.

Innovations like this are pivotal in advancing new data centre designs that support more dense iron and repurpose power for cooling in the age of AI.  

“For more than a decade, Lenovo has pioneered liquid cooling innovations, with the goal of bringing the power of high-performance computing to every organisation,” said Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang. 

“Through groundbreaking liquid-cooling engineering and technology integration, ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune is unlocking a new era of data centre efficiency and design that will help bring NVIDIA Blackwell and trillion-parameter AI to all, while fundamentally changing how power is used in the data centre.” 

Deploying technology to support AI growth

With ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune, Lenovo states that data centre power is maximised for AI and research. Its technology uses a reimagined vertical liquid cooling chassis to deliver accelerated computing with advanced efficiency in a compact system that is 100% liquid cooled. 

Designed for industry standard 19-inch racks, the hope is that organisations of any size can now leverage the offering using standard power in an open ecosystem.

The ThinkSystem SC777 V4 Neptune also supports NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Nvidia’s cloud-native software platform that streamlines development and deployment of production-grade AI solutions, including generative AI, computer vision and speech AI. 

With advanced water cooling capabilities, 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. 

As a result, these innovations seek to enable greater AI training and real-time LLM inference for AI models, in addition to increasing performance, energy efficiency and reliability within the data centre system.

Empowering the next generation of AI-ready data centres

This industry offering is particularly timely, given the demand of AI workloads placing continued power and emission strains on data centres worldwide.

Already, the integration of AI in data centres has revolutionised how facilities operate, from providing advanced efficiency, to maximising scalability. The technology has been touted as a vital solution for data centres, who are seeking to bolster their operations and achieve greater impact across the industry.

Nvidia is just one example of a technology company who has experienced rapid growth on account of AI-ready data centres. In 2024, it was predicted its data centre business will reach US$17.06bn in sales for its fiscal fourth quarter at the end of 2024.

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