“The Lenovo HPC environment has been ideal for supporting our research. The Lenovo servers and NVIDIA GPUs provide the performance needed for AI and sophisticated analytics workloads, while the storage offers ample capacity for current projects and headroom for future expansion.”
At-a-Glance
- Customer: Centre for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology at Zhejiang University
- Industry: Academic Research
- Product Family: Servers
- Region: China
- Processor: NVIDIA
- Topic: Artificial Intelligence,Big Data and Analytics,Data Management,High Performance Computing,IT Transformation ,Industry-specific Solutions
Centre for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology at Zhejiang University supports groundbreaking biology research with Lenovo
The Centre for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology at Zhejiang University aims to aims to understand the original of species. Working with Lenovo, the Centre deployed a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster, featuring ThinkSystem servers equipped with NVIDIA® A10 Tensor Core GPUs, that helps scientists make progress on pioneering research projects.
Customer Problem
Scientists and students at the Centre rely on rapid access to data to drive forward research—but performance bottlenecks in the IT infrastructure slowed their work on important projects.
Lenovo Solution
To support its analytics environment, the Centre engaged Lenovo to design and implement a new HPC infrastructure, including Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 systems accelerated with NVIDIA A10 Tensor Core GPUs.
Business Impact
The powerful, resilient, and scalable HPC environment has eliminated performance bottlenecks, increased data availability, and helped researchers to work more productively.
“The Lenovo servers and NVIDIA GPUs provide the performance needed for AI and sophisticated analytics workloads, while the storage offers ample capacity for current projects and headroom for future expansion.”
He Yunqiu, Secretary, Centre for Evolutionary & Organismal Biology, Zhejiang University
Results
- · 99.999% data availability for researchers
- · 1000s of operational hours without incident
- · Supports pioneering research projects
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