Lenovo and Intel Announce Multiyear Global Collaboration to Extend HPC and AI Leadership
August 05 2019 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Collaboration Will Build on Long-Standing
Partnership to Further Accelerate Scientific and Business
Innovation and Discovery
Intel and Lenovo today announced a multiyear collaboration
focused on the rapidly growing opportunity in the convergence of
high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI)
to help accelerate solutions for the world’s most challenging
problems. Building on the companies’ long-standing partnership in
the data center, the multiyear global collaboration will speed the
convergence of HPC and AI, creating solutions for organizations of
all sizes.
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Intel chief executive officer Bob Swan
and Navin Shenoy, Intel executive vice president and general
manager of the Data Center Group, meet with Lenovo chief executive
officer Yuanqing Yang and Kirk Skaugen, executive vice president
and president, Lenovo Data Center Group to sign multiyear global
collaboration agreement. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
Lenovo, the leading global system provider of TOP500
supercomputers will be optimizing Intel’s full portfolio of HPC and
AI hardware and software solutions to serve as the foundation for
its market strategy. Working together, the companies aim to
accelerate the convergence of HPC and AI to unlock new levels of
customer insight. The combination of 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable
platform and Lenovo Neptune™ liquid cooling technology has already
produced remarkable results from joint engineering and utilizing a
unique combination of HPC IP from the two companies. Today, 173 of
the world’s TOP500 fastest supercomputers, spanning 19 markets run
on Lenovo servers. Additionally, 17 of the world’s top 25 research
universities rely on Lenovo infrastructure.
“Our goal is to further accelerate innovation into the Exascale
era, aggressively waterfalling these solutions to scientists and
businesses of all sizes to speed discovery and outcomes. We are
passionate in helping researchers solve humanity’s greatest
challenges,” said Kirk Skaugen, executive vice president of Lenovo
and president of Lenovo Data Center Group. “Lenovo’s Neptune™
liquid cooling, in combination with the 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon®
Scalable platform, helps customers unlock new insights and deliver
unprecedented outcomes at new levels of energy efficiency.”
“Intel is laser-focused on helping our customers spur innovation
and discovery through the convergence of AI with HPC,” said Navin
Shenoy, Intel executive vice president and general manager of the
Data Center Group. “Our extended collaboration with Lenovo combines
the best of both companies’ innovations to drive our customers’
progress forward even faster.”
The collaboration plans to focus on three areas:
Systems and solutions: The collaboration brings together
the best of Lenovo’s portfolio, including Lenovo TruScale
Infrastructure™, and Intel’s leading-edge technologies, including
Intel® Xe computing architecture; Intel® Optane™ DC persistent
memory; Intel® oneAPI® programming framework; and both current and
future generations of Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, the only
CPUs with the built-in AI acceleration of Intel® Deep Learning
Boost. This partnership will be critical as breakthrough HPC and AI
technologies are cascaded to users of any size, or what Lenovo
calls “From Exascale to Everyscale™.”
Software optimization for HPC and AI convergence: A key
focus area will be building out Lenovo’s smarter software
offerings, including optimizing Lenovo’s LiCO HPC/AI software stack
for Intel’s next-generation technologies, and alignment with the
Intel oneAPI® programming framework. Additionally, the
collaboration will work to enable DAOS advanced storage frameworks
and other exascale-class software optimizations, targeted at
helping HPC and AI users run their applications with greater ease
than before.
Ecosystem enablement: Additionally, Intel and Lenovo plan
to partner to help create the new ecosystem for the convergence of
HPC and AI. This includes building joint “HPC & AI centers of
excellence” around the world to further enable research and
university centers to develop solutions that address some of the
most pervasive world challenges, including genomics, cancer,
weather and climate, space exploration and more.
About Intel
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), a leader in the semiconductor industry, is
shaping the data-centric future with computing and communications
technology that is the foundation of the world’s innovations. The
company’s engineering expertise is helping address the world’s
greatest challenges as well as helping secure, power and connect
billions of devices and the infrastructure of the smart, connected
world – from the cloud to the network to the edge and everything in
between. Find more information about Intel at newsroom.intel.com
and intel.com.
About Lenovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a US$50 billion Fortune
Global 500 company and a global technology leader in driving
Intelligent Transformation through smart devices and infrastructure
that create the best user experience. Lenovo manufactures one of
the world’s widest portfolio of connected products, including
smartphones (Motorola), tablets, PCs (ThinkPad, Yoga, Lenovo
Legion) and workstations as well as AR/VR devices and smart
home/office solutions. Lenovo’s data center solutions (ThinkSystem,
ThinkAgile) are creating the capacity and computing power for the
connections that are changing business and society. Lenovo works to
inspire the difference in everyone and build a smarter future where
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