Driving green innovation with cutting-edge HPC

To support the development of groundbreaking green and autonomous vehicles, Geely Auto R&D deployed a high-performance computing (HPC) platform based on Lenovo ThinkSystem SR670 servers with Lenovo Neptune™ water cooling—boosting performance by 35% and creating headroom for continued R&D innovation.

Customer Problem

Geely Auto R&D depends on HPC resources to support its design process—but leasing HPC resources from the cloud was becoming prohibitively complex and costly.

Lenovo Solution

The company engaged Lenovo to deploy an on-premises HPC cluster based on Lenovo ThinkSystem SR670 servers with Lenovo Neptune water cooling.

Business Impact

The new cluster boosts HPC performance by 35% while slashing power consumption by 1 million kWh/year—empowering the company to continue its fast-paced R&D innovation.

“With our Lenovo HPC platform, we are helping Geely Group build vehicles that offer even greater efficiency, comfort and safety.”

Hu Bo, Program Architecture Manager, Geely Auto R&D

Results

• ·       35% HPC performance boost
• ·       1 million kWh/year reduction in power usage
• ·       Creates headroom for additional HPC workloads