New 6th-Gen Lenovo Neptune™ Liquid Cooling Powers the Era of AI

Boost AI and HPC performance with Lenovo Neptune™ Liquid Cooling. With over a decade of liquid-cooling expertise and more than 40 patents, we leverage our experience in large-scale supercomputing and AI to help organizations deploy high-performance AI at any scale.

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Overview

New high-performance applications using AI technology require more system power than ever, increasing energy demands. Lenovo 6th Generation Neptune™ Liquid Cooling tackles this problem by using liquid to remove heat, which is much more efficient than traditional air cooling and provides maximum performance while dramatically improving energy efficiency.

For customers who need maximum AI and HPC performance but don’t have liquid cooling infrastructure, we partner with leading colocation companies to offer Neptune™-ready infrastructure for private AI workloads.

Lenovo Neptune™ Liquid Cooling is HPCwire’s Best HPC Server Product or Technology for 2023, one of HPCwire’s Top 5 New Products or Technologies to Watch in 2023, CRN’s 2024 Best Green Energy Product of the Year, winner of the 2024 SEAL Sustainable Product Award.

Neptune's holistic approach to liquid cooling goes beyond simply cooling the CPUs. It includes:

Direct warm water cooling of entire systems for maximum performance and efficiency, turning waste heat into value by allowing hot water reuse in the facility
Direct water cooling of individual system components, available throughout our mainstream ThinkSystem portfolio
Liquid-assisted cooling for the benefits of liquid in an air-cooled system
Rack-level rear door water cooling
Energy Aware Runtime (EAR) and XClarity Energy Manager software to optimize performance and power

Lenovo Tech World 2023: Wall of Neptune™

Check out our Neptune™ Liquid Cooling demo from Lenovo Tech World, where we showed how our cooling technology helps keep even the hardest working AI servers cool.

Why choose Lenovo for liquid cooling technology?

Neptune™ enables performance without compromise.

Performance

Lenovo Neptune™ Liquid Cooling boosts CPU, GPU, and system speed, delivering faster results for new server workloads like AI and HPC.

Sustainability

Meet environmental goals and align with carbon reduction initiatives without sacrificing the ability to deliver the computing power your organization needs to compete and thrive.

Density

Neptune™ delivers more computing power in a compact footprint to support your most demanding workloads.

Competitive advantage

Whether your organization is competing for faster time-to-market, scientific breakthroughs, or research grants, your business will benefit from super-efficient high-performance computing that delivers results more quickly.

“Moving from air cooling to Lenovo Neptune™ liquid cooling, our cluster delivers four-times greater performance than our previous infrastructure within the same physical footprint, increasing our processing power so we can run cutting-edge research faster.”

- Scott Yockel, University Research Computing Officer, Harvard University

Solutions

Meet Lenovo’s Neptune cooling technologies

Rack water cooling

Keep heat down in the rack with either a rear-door heat exchanger (RDHX) or in-rack cooling distribution units (CDU).

Direct water cooling

With full systems and core systems available, direct water cooling removes heat from key components – including power supplies – for completely fanless operation.

Liquid-assisted cooling

With either a thermal transfer module (TTM) or liquid-to-air heat exchanger (L2A), traditional air-cooled systems benefit from liquid cooling with specially designed heat handling, without added plumbing.

Energy Aware Runtime & XClarity software

By optimizing power states, turning off unused components, and routing workloads to the most efficient resources, our software helps deliver optimal performance at a low level of energy consumption.

Products

Lenovo ThinkSystem SR665 V3

The ThinkSystem SR665 V3 provides the performance to manage next gen applications like AI, Virtualization and Software-defined infrastructure. Optional CPU Direct-water cooling increases performance capabilities and improves energy efficiency.

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Lenovo ThinkSystem SD665 V3

The ThinkSystem SD665 V3 delivers maximum AMD CPU performance, extreme density, and leading energy efficiency.

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Lenovo ThinkSystem SD665-N V3

Bringing Exascale performance to your AI & HPC workloads, the ThinkSystem SD665-N V3 Neptune™ server delivers maximum NVIDIA GPU performance.

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Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3

From single-node enterprise deployments to the largest supercomputers in the world, the SR675 V3 server can scale to meet any performance demand.

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Lenovo ThinkSystem SD650 V3

The ThinkSystem SD650 V3 dual-node tray contains Neptune™ cooling technology designed for technical computing, grid deployments, and analytics workloads.

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Customer success stories

Case study

DreamWorks success story

See how DreamWorks Animation is bringing bigger, bolder ideas to life with Lenovo Neptune™ and High-Performance Computing solutions.

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Article

Geely Auto R&D

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 SD650 V3 servers with Lenovo Neptune™ water cooling—boosting performance by 35% and creating headroom for continued R&D innovation.

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Case study

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Sparking new scientific possibilities helping researchers deepen their understanding of life on Earth and the universe with Lenovo Neptune™ liquid-cooling technology.

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Case study

Harvard University Faculty of Arts & Sciences Research Computing

Discover how Harvard University Faculty of Arts & Sciences Research Computing accelerates research with Lenovo ThinkSystem servers, and Lenovo Neptune™ liquid cooling technology.

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Case study

Korea Meteorological Administration

See how the Korea Meteorological Administration will deliver more accurate weather forecasts with a state-of-the-art supercomputer based on Lenovo ThinkSystem SD650 V2 and SD530 servers, Intel

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Resources

Tomorrow’s High Performance Computing Systems Must Perform for the Planet

Discover further insights into how Lenovo is fostering sustainable maximum computing performance.

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The world’s AI generators: rethinking water usage in data centers to build a more sustainable future

The world’s data centers are set to grow in numbers and in power consumption in order to provide AI capabilities to the world. Read how Lenovo is leading the industry in using water to cool the most demanding workloads while building a brighter, more sustainable future.

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Celebrating 10 years of industry-leading Lenovo Neptune™ cooling

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 SD650 V3 servers with Lenovo Neptune™ water cooling—boosting performance by 35% and creating headroom for continued R&D innovation.

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SD650 V3: 3D Tour

Learn how our SD650 V3 dense server uses Neptune™ Liquid Cooling to deliver high performance computing.

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SD665-N V3: 3D Tour

Take a virtual 3D tour of our SD665-N V3 dense server, which uses Neptune™ Liquid Cooling to deliver high performance computing.

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Services

TruScale Infrastructure Services

Lenovo TruScale is an as-a-service, cloud-like experience with on-prem security and control. It scales very easily, to give you all the power and strategic advantage of the latest data center hardware through a pay-as-you-go business model.

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Professional Services

We’ll design the best way to get you from where you are to where you want to be by manging end-to-end architecture, hardware installation, data migration, and system deployment, accelerating your time to productivity and maximizing your ROI.

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Support Services

Enjoy one-call support with Premier Support warranty upgrades and extensions. For more complex issues, a Technical Account Manager with in-depth expertise, serves as a single point of accountability for all your infrastructure services.

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Managed Services

Lenovo Managed Services helps businesses like yours, to gain better performance, limited downtime and peace of mind. With a tailored service, you control and predict your costs and improve system availability and capacity, while reducing your operating expenses.

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