Dense Customer Presentation

Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530 Customer Deck For Non-HPC Patrick Moakley, Director of Marketing HPC & AI June, 2017

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Agenda • Customer Challenges • The ThinkSystem Dense Pillars • Dense Systems Workloads • The ThinkSystem SD530 • Customer References


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Today’s Challenges

$17,9001 – Cost per rack per year for space and power

60% – the CAGR of hyperconverged systems 2015 through 20202

5 milliseconds – The expiration time for Algorithmic trading data3

1. Power cost $17K per year per rack. Real Estate costs $900 rack/year 2. Gartner: Crossroads for Server Virtualization Decisions Thomas J. Bittman page 12 3. Gartner: Your Digital Business Is DOA Without APM , page 5

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The Pillars of ThinkSystem SD530 Ultra-Dense

Extreme Compute

 More in less  Dense compute  Storage choice

 Wide CPU range  GPU support  Enhanced memory

IO Flexibility  Fabric Choice  Simplified management  IO Shuttle design


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ThinkSystem SD530 Workloads

SD530 2U Chassis with four 2P Nodes

Cloud


Virtualization & VDI

Hyperconverged

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Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530 The density of blades, the economics of racks

• Ultra-dense • Extreme Compute

• Flexible IO


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Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530 Delivers The density of blades, the economics of racks Ultra-dense  2X the density of 1U Rack systems  Storage up to 3.8PB per rack  Faster memory, up to 84TB per rack

Extreme Compute ✔Up to 84 nodes per rack ✔2U add-on tray supports 2 GPUs per node ✔Supports both Intel Phi & NVIDIA GPUs

Flexible IO  Choice of rear shuttle  x16 Simple Swap supports HPC workloads  x8 shuttle supports infrastructure, cloud, and hyperconverged 2017 LENOVO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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Lenovo ThinkSystem SD530 ThinkSystem SD530 ‒ Succeeds the sd350 for non-HPC workloads ‒ Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum CPUs up to 165W ‒ 16 DIMM Slots/ 1TB max memory

‒ 24 storage device bays (6 per node) ‒ 6 NVMe bays (2 per node) ‒ Up to eight x8 PCIe adapters ‒ 4x10GbE standard ‒ Direct NVMe eliminates the need for switch cards

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SD530 & D2 Enclosure

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Conclusion: ThinkSystem Blade Systems

SD530 & D2 Enclosure

• Ultra-Dense • Extreme Compute • IO Flexibility 2017 LENOVO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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Case Study

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Citations 1. “IBM® Flex System® Network Architecture: VM Migration and Aggregate Network Performance versus Cisco UCS” Tolly Report #214104 © 2014 TOLLY ENTERPRISES, LLC 2. http://www.lenovo.com/images/products/system-x/pdfs/whitepapers/xclarity_admin_flex_system_wp.pdf 3. $2,500 per rack per year: Flex 15% less power consumption compared to IBM BladeCenter, average per rack cost of power is $17,000 https://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/prod_development/downloads/DC_Energy_Metrics.pdf

4. 80% more dense than rack environments: 14 2P/7 4P Flex nodes + 4 switches (2 each Ethernet & Fibre Channel) in 10U. 14 2P/7 4P rack systems + 4 switches = 18U


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