What's New - ThinkSystem V2 Servers

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Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group announces the next-generation Lenovo ThinkSystem servers
showcasing a unique balance of performance, security and efficiency – all built on 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon®
Scalable processors and PCIe Gen4.
As companies of all sizes continue to work on solving real-world challenges – they require powerful
infrastructure solutions to help them gain faster insights and remain competitive. With this new generation of
ThinkSystem solutions, Lenovo introduces innovations for real-world workloads including high performance
computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), modeling and simulation, cloud, virtual desktop infrastructure
(VDI) and advanced analytics.

The new servers can be divided into two groups based on customer workload:
Mainstream servers in rack, tower and blade form factor offering enhanced performance, reliability,
flexibility and security:
ThinkSystem SR650 V2 - 2U rack server
ThinkSystem SR630 V2 - 1U rack server
ThinkSystem ST650 V2 - tower server
ThinkSystem SN550 V2 - blade server
HPC/AI performance-optimized servers that provide massive computing power in minimal floor
space with reduced energy consumption:
ThinkSystem SR670 V2 - 3U GPU-optimized air-cooled server
ThinkSystem SD650 V2 - water-cooled CPU-optimized server
ThinkSystem SD650-N V2 - water-cooled GPU-optimized server
ThinkSystem SD630 V2 - air-cooled 2U4N dense compute nodes
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ThinkSystem V2 servers
Learn more about each of the new servers from Lenovo.

ThinkSystem SR650 V2
Ideal for scalability from SMB to large enterprises and managed cloud
service providers, the 2U two-socket server is engineered for speed
and expansion, with flexible storage and I/O for business-critical
workloads. It provides outstanding performance and memory capacity
supported by Intel Optane persistent memory 200 series for database
and virtual machine deployments, with support for PCIe Gen4 networking to reduce data bottlenecks.
Learn more:
Product web page (US)
Datasheet
Product guide
Interactive 3D Tour
Walkthrough video

ThinkSystem SR630 V2
Built for business-critical versatility, the 1U two-socket server features
optimized performance and density for hybrid data center workloads
such as cloud, virtualization, analytics, computing and gaming. Like the
SR650 V2, it provides high performance and memory capacity with support for Intel Optane persistent
memory 200 series, and support PCIe Gen4 high-speed networking.
Learn more:
Product web page (US)
Datasheet
Product guide
Walkthrough video

ThinkSystem ST650 V2
A versatile mainstream tower server with enterprise manageability and redundancy, the
ST650 V2 includes the industry’s latest technology best suited to remote offices, branch
offices (ROBO), technology and retail, while optimizing workloads. Support for up to 32x
2.5-inch drive bays or 16x 3.5-inch drive bays to maximize internal storage capacity. Can
be converted to a 4U rack is desired.
Learn more:
Product web page (US)
Datasheet
Product guide
Walkthrough video

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ThinkSystem SN550 V2
Designed for enterprise performance and flexibility in a compact footprint, the
newest building block in the Flex System family, this blade server node is
optimized for performance, efficiency and security – designed to tackle
business-critical workloads such as cloud, server virtualization, databases and
VDI.
Learn more:
Product web page (US)
Datasheet
Product guide

ThinkSystem SR670 V2
This highly versatile acceleration platform is designed for HPC and AI
training workloads, supporting the NVIDIA Ampere datacenter GPU
portfolio. With six base configurations that support four high-
performance SXM4 GPUs or up to eight PCIe double-wide GPUs, the
SR670 V2 allows customers the flexibility to GPUs and supporting I/O
that they need. SXM4 configurations feature the Lenovo Neptune
liquid-to-air heat exchanger that provides the benefits of liquid cooling without the adding plumbing.
Learn more:
Product web page (US)
Datasheet
Product guide
Interactive 3D Tour

ThinkSystem SD650 V2
Based on industry-acclaimed fourth generation, Lenovo Neptune
cooling technology, utilizes a highly reliable copper loop and cold plate
architecture removing up to 90% of the systems heat (1). The
ThinkSystem SD650 V2 is built to tackle compute-intensive workloads
such as HPC, AI, cloud, grid and advanced analytics.
Learn more:
Product web page (US)
Datasheet
Product guide

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ThinkSystem SD650-N V2
Expanding the Lenovo Neptune platform, direct water-cooling
technology for GPUs, this server combines two 3rd Gen Intel Xeon
Scalable processors with four NVIDIA A100 SXM4 GPUs to deliver
maximum performance in a dense 1U package. A rack of Lenovo
ThinkSystem SD650-N V2 delivers enough compute performance to
place in the top 300 of the TOP500 list of supercomputers (2)
Learn more:
Product web page (US)
Datasheet
Product guide
Interactive 3D Tour

ThinkSystem SD630 V2
This ultra-dense, ultra-agile server handles twice the workloads per
server rack unit of rack space vs. traditional 1U servers. By leveraging
Lenovo Neptune Thermal Transfer Modules, the SD630 V2 supports
processors up to 250W, driving 1.5 times the performance of the
previous generation in the same rack space (3).
Learn more:
Product web page (US)
Datasheet
Product guide

Additional resources
For additional resources about the new servers:
ThinkSystem Server Comparison
Intel Xeon Scalable Processor Reference for Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers
ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile GPU Summary
Lenovo Server Operating System Interoperability Guide (OSIG)
ThinkSystem SSD Portfolio
See our partner page on Intel's launch page " How Wonderful Gets Done"?

ThinkSystem security
With the ThinkSystem V2 servers, Lenovo is now enhancing security aspects of the servers, both in the
manfacturing supply chain and in the delivery of firmware updates.

Intel Transparent Supply Chain

With Intel ThinkSystem servers and Intel Transparent Supply Chain, you can add a layer of protection in
your data center and have peace of mind that the server hardware you bring into it is safe authentic and
with documented, testable, and provable origin.
Lenovo has one of the world’s best supply chains, as ranked by Gartner Group, backed by extensive and
mature supply chain security programs that exceed industry norms and US Government standards. Now we
are the first Tier 1 manufacturer to offer Intel® Transparent Supply Chain in partnership with Intel, offering
you an unprecedented degree of supply chain transparency and assurance.

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For more information on this offering, see the paper Introduction to Intel Transparent Supply Chain on
Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers, available from https://lenovopress.com/lp1434.

Platform Firmware Resiliency - Lenovo ThinkShield

Lenovo's ThinkShield Security is a transparent and comprehensive approach to security that extends to all
dimensions of our data center products: from development, to supply chain, and through the entire product
lifecycle.
The systems includes Platform Firmware Resiliency (PFR) hardware Root of Trust (RoT) which enables the
system to be NIST SP800-193 compliant. This offering further enhances key platform subsystem
protections against unauthorized firmware updates and corruption, to restore firmware to an integral state,
and to closely monitor firmware for possible compromise from cyber-attacks.
PFR operates upon the following server components:
UEFI image – the low-level server firmware that connects the operating system to the server
hardware
XCC image – the management “engine” software that controls and reports on the server status
separate from the server operating system
FPGA image – the code that runs the server’s lowest level hardware controller on the motherboard
The Lenovo Platform Root of Trust Hardware performs the following three main functions:
Detection – Measures the firmware and updates for authenticity
Recovery – Recovers a corrupted image to a known-safe image
Protection – Monitors the system to ensure the known-good firmware is not maliciously written
These enhanced protection capabilities are implemented using a dedicated, discrete security processor
whose implementation has been rigorously validated by leading third-party security firms. Security
evaluation results and design details are available for customer review – providing unprecedented
transparency and assurance.
The systems includes support for Secure Boot, a UEFI firmware security feature developed by the UEFI
Consortium that ensures only immutable and signed software are loaded during the boot time. The use of
Secure Boot helps prevent malicious code from being loaded and helps prevent attacks, such as the
installation of rootkits. Lenovo offers the capability to enable secure boot in the factory, to ensure end-to-
end protection. Alternatively, Secure Boot can be left disabled in the factory, allowing the customer to
enable it themselves at a later point, if desired.
The following table lists the relevant feature code(s).

Table 1. Secure Boot options

Part number Feature code Description Purpose

Tip: If Secure Boot is not enabled in the factory, it can be enabled later by the customer. However once
Secure Boot is enabled, it cannot be disabled.

(1) Based on internal research by Lenovo - 90% heat removal via water. Jan-Mar 2021
(2) Avg Rmax Perf per node ~ 50TF * 36 Nodes (1 rack) = 1.8PF >1.79PF in position 297 on the November
2020 TOP500 list
(3) Intel Xeon 8360Y CPU has 36 cores with floating point (FP) results of 419 vs. Intel Xeon 8280 CPU has
28 cores with FP results of 270 = 1.55x FP performance improvement

Related product families

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Related product families
Product families related to this document are the following:
ThinkSystem SD630 V2 Server
ThinkSystem SD650 V2 server
ThinkSystem SD650-N V2 server
ThinkSystem SN550 V2 Server
ThinkSystem SR630 V2 Server
ThinkSystem SR650 V2 Server
ThinkSystem SR670 V2 Server
ThinkSystem ST650 V2 server

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