Lenovo HPC and AI: Strategy and ProductsLuigi Brochard, Distinguished engineer, HPC and Artificial Intelligence

PRC HPC Summit, June 30, 2017

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Topics

Topics

Who we are in HPC

ThinkSystem Announcements

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Our AI Mission and Vision

Conclusion

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United States

Lenovo powers research innovation at:

Harvard University

MIT

Caltech

Princeton University

Yale University

University of Chicago

UK

Largest Astrophysics computer worldwide

Lenovo powers research innovation at:

University of Oxford

Imperial College London

Denmark

Largest Supercomputer built on Lenovo systems

VESTAS

HPC and Data Analytics

Germany

First warm water-cooled system in world built on

Lenovo systems

LRZ

Italy

Largest Supercomputer built on Lenovo systems

CINECA

3 of top 6 supercomputers are built

on Lenovo systems

CINECA / ENI

China

Twice as many Xeon PetaFLOPS than

closest competitor

Australia

Largest single system for AI research & training

Univ. of Adelaide

Malaysia

Largest Water cooled System in Asia

Metrological Malaysia

Lenovo HPC Around the World

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#1 Intel Skylake Cluster on TOP500!

• 48 racks with 3,450 ThinkSystem SD530 nodes

• Skylake 8160 - Next generation Xeon processors

• Central memory of 390 Terabytes

• Over 11 Petaflop/s, 10 times more performance than the MareNostrum3

• Consumes only 30% more power, reaching 1.3 MW/year

6.2 PF

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A Relentless Pursuit of Better

Different is BetterThe Future-Ready Data Center

Server, storage & networking solutionsfor the future-ready data center

Next Generation IT for software-defined infrastructure

Engineered Solutions

Lenovo Services

Simplify infrastructure, workload & service delivery

A relationship of trust across every phase of the IT lifecycle

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A Relentless Pursuit of Better

Different is BetterThe Future-Ready Data Center

Server, storage & networking solutionsfor the future-ready data center

Next Generation IT for software-defined infrastructure

Engineered Solutions

Lenovo Services

Simplify infrastructure, workload & service delivery

A relationship of trust across every phase of the IT lifecycle

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ML/AI End-to-End WorkflowRequires specialized architectures for each process step

Store Train Deploy

ModelData

• Storage

• Preparation

• Feeding

• Hadoop/Spark

• HPC characteristics

- Compute intensive

- Scale up and out

- Accelerators/high-

speed networks

• Enterprise/device

computing

• Scale out architectures

• CPU/accelerators

Input

Big Data Training Inference/Scoring

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DATA (STRUCTURED / UNSTRUCTUED)

AI EXPERTS AND CONSULTANTS

AI HW / SW RESOURCES

Barriers to AI Adoption

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INFRASTRUCTURE

PARTNERS

FRAMEWORKS

RESEARCHINSTITUTIONS

TECHNOLOGYPARTNERS

ECOSYSTEMPARTNERS

STUTTGARTGERMANY

MORRISVILLEU.S.A

BEIJINGCHINA

Announcing: Lenovo AI Innovation Center

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ACCESS TO EXPERTs

AI INFRASTRUCTURE

TOOLS FOR FAST START

OCTOBER 2017

Announcing: Lenovo AI Innovation Center

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INTEL NVIDIAINTEL NVIDIA

Deep Learning HW Portfolio

x3650 + GPU (P40)

SD530+ 2 GPU (P100/P40)

x3650 + 2GPU

BDW Xeon (x3550/3650)

Knights Landing Server

2017-182016-17

NeXtScale + 4GPU (P100/P40)

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SKL Xeon(SR 550/650)

Knights Mill Server

SR650 + P40

2U + 2GPU (P100/P40)

Develop HW

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Adding AI Frameworks to LiCO

• AI Frameworks will be integrated and orchestrated for distributed training

• GUI for managing AI workflows such as creating, submitting, monitoring and validating AI jobs

Workflow GUI

Configure neural networks

Monitor training Validate accuracy

Develop HW

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Reference Architectures for AIBring it all together

Big data nodes

Training nodes

Inference nodes

Networking

Value of Lenovo AI RA: Eliminates the complexity in configuring the right infrastructure to deploy AI end-to-end for optimum performance

• Infrastructure for high volume movement of data, training and inference

• End-to-end solution verification

• Documentation, best practices, and configurations

Management nodes

Develop Solutions

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Lenovo HPC & AI Strategy and Vision

Expand reach with our partner ecosystem 01

02Invest across engineering and technological innovation

Deliver E2E AI specific solutions and services 03