Rob Herman, Vice President e General Manager, Workstation e Client AI Group di Lenovoillustrates the opportunities arising from the collaboration with Lenovo e NVIDIA to leverage generative AI.
It’s always nice to return to NVIDIA’s GTC! We are proud to continue our partnership with NVIDIA and be continually stimulated by the possibilities we are able to offer together with industry experts and data scientists. All committed to exploring the immense opportunities offered by the Lenovo ThinkStation desktop and ThinkPad mobile workstations, AI and generative AI.
Secure supercomputing environments
Evolving Data Science and Gen AI workflows, especially with large language models (LLMs), require powerful NVIDIA GPUs. Like the NVIDIA A800 40GB Active, designed specifically for AI workflows, or the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation for performance multipurpose never seen before. Available in Lenovo ThinkStation and ThinkPad systems, these GPUs enable you to create secure, personal supercomputing environments suitable for organizations working with all types of AI workflows.
Lenovo and NVIDIA in collaboration
For example, the ThinkPad P16 Gen 2 with NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU represents an example of innovative technology suitable for the most professional workloads challenging. These powerful laptops are designed to enhance mobile AI development. They also offer LLM tuning with unprecedented performance for tasks that require significant power calculation.
Reliable and customizable solutions
Generative AI compliant Lenovo workstations. From the ThinkPad P-Series mobile workstations, perfect for data scientists on the go, to the ThinkStation PX, the world‘s fastest, most powerful and most advanced workstation for AI workflows. The Lenovo workstation portfolio is the broadest range of AI-Ready products on the market. A range capable of offering highly developed solutions MIXED for today’s AI workloads.
Furthermore, Lenovo’s commitment to the development of open-source operating systems is continuous and every year it invests resources in Linux development and certifications. The commitment is demonstrated by the industry’s broadest range of certified Linux workstations, supported by comprehensive pre- and post-sale Linux services. Lenovo’s proactive approach not only highlights its competence technical, but also underlines its commitment to satisfying the needs of a heterogeneous clientele looking for reliable and customizable solutions.
Lenovo and NVIDIA helping AI developers
In order to help AI developers ad increase productivity through automated workflows, Lenovo is proud to announce Lenovo Workstations with NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA AI Workbench. Built on the NVIDIA CUDA computing platform, they leverage CUDA-X libraries to accelerate data processing for a variety of data types. These include the NVIDIA RAPIDS cuDF library, which using an NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPU can accelerate the work of approximately 10 million data scientists. These use pandas software up to 110×4, without requiring any code changes.
Better productivity and efficiency
RAPIDS cuDF, NVIDIA AI Workbench and NVIDIA AI Enterprise will be available within the Lenovo AI solutions portfolio. Thus offering an enterprise-class full stack AI developer software platform. A solution capable of improving the productivity and efficiency of Data Science, of training of generative AI and LLM and the fine-tuning of workflows. Independently from where and when they are performed. With NVIDIA AI Enterprise, Lenovo workstations now also support NVIDIA NIM and NeMo Retriever microservices for inference and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). This allows developers to work on generative AI applications directly on their powerful local systems.
Leverage and implement existing models
Today, many organizations are moving towards privately developed and managed LLM and small-language (SLM) models. Especially because of the problems of safety related to the exploitation of proprietary data in these models and the increased costs associated with training data and LLMs. Many companies are finding that if they want to start working with generative AI, it’s easier and advantageous leverage existing models and augment them with your own data in a more secure sandbox environment. By leveraging Lenovo workstations with NVIDIA AI Enterprise, AI professionals and data scientists can rely on proactive LLM and SLM recommendations.
Promote technological progress
Lenovo’s focus on enhancing open-source technologies is manifested through investments. Investments that confirm the commitment towards processes rigorous certification and qualification requirements across a wide range of NVIDIA-certified platforms. These include workstations, servers and edge devices from its extensive assortment. Expanding By actively supporting Linux and open-source initiatives, Lenovo demonstrates a forward-thinking approach to driving technological progress. And also meet the changing needs of its customers.
How to anticipate and satisfy user requests
The management proactive use of high-performance configurations, adapted to the diverse needs of generative AI, highlights Lenovo’s focus on innovation. Through strategic partnerships with NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA AI Workbench for its renowned line of ThinkStation desktops and ThinkPad P-series mobile workstations, Lenovo is leading the way in delivering breakthrough results in AI.
Lenovo and NVIDIA in collaboration
These configurations have been meticulously designed to increase performance. They also highlight the commitment Lenovo has put intomove up and meet the demands of users engaged in numerous generative AI applications and complex datasets. The collaboration with NVIDIA highlights Lenovo’s leadership in world-class solutions for cutting-edge AI projects. Thus confirming its role as a pioneer in the sector.
“Turnkey” Digital Twin solutions
Digital Twins are a lot demanding in terms of performance. Existing hardware structures are unable to support the performance requirements required by these applications. To help customers realize the potential of digital twin solutions, Lenovo has partnered with NVIDIA to create turnkey solutions. Solutions that help consumers start their journey with NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise and the digital twin.
Lenovo and NVIDIA
The combination Lenovo ThinkStation PX’s unique power, performance and capacity with up to 4 NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPUs and NVIDIA ConnextX-6 high-performance networking allows customers to simplify their digital transformation journey with NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise. Thus reducing the complexities, costs and business concerns related to the digitalization of workflows.
Solutions to expand well and quickly
This digital twin platform offers consumers the ability to achieve fast, impactful business outcomes across a broad number of verticals. This allows customers to start small and quickly and easily expand to larger, more complex digital twin projects on a single workstation. The Lenovo ThinkStation Digital Twin solution can be launched from your desktop. In fact, being completely montabile on racks, it can be extended to the data center, thanks to NVIDIA OVX. That is, NVIDIA’s deployment model for large-scale digital twins.
Achieve end-to-end digital computation
The digitalisation in some sectors is progressing at a very rapid pace and companies are looking for ways to digitize their businesses. However, organizations across a wide range of verticals are struggling to adopt digital twin solutions with spatial computing. This is because of the complicated hardware and software tools required by different vendors.
What is spatial processing for?
Spatial computing technology can be defined as the process of digitizing activities involving machines, people, objects and their environments through immersive technologies such as AR, VR, MR and AI and ML. This is to offer a completely environment and platform interactive and collaborative to visualize digital twins. Spatial computing can be very CPU, GPU, and system resource intensive, requiring a large amount of physical CPU cores, GPUs, memory and network bandwidth. While bringing these requirements together has proven difficult, Lenovo’s enterprise-class virtual reality and workstation portfolio offers the capabilities needed for a high-performance solution. The ThinkStation PX, ThinkReality VRX HMD, and ThinkReality MDM software are the perfect recipe for spatial computing in the enterprise.
A variety of sectors
The end-to-end solution, Lenovo Spatial Computing Appliance, can truly enable enterprises to materialize the possibilities offered by digital twin technology. The stand-alone workstation can be mounted in a rack environment in a company’s office. Additionally, using professional software like Autodesk VRED or NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise, collaborative VR experiences between multiple users can be easily pixel-streamed from a single ThinkStation PX workstation to four separate ThinkReality VRX headsets simultaneously.
A single centralized resource
Having a single, centralized on-site resource capable of delivering immersive experiences reduces the latency and offers the end customer a higher quality and reproducible experience. Plus, with VR experiences streamed to the ThinkReality VRX headset via NVIDIA CloudXR, users will no longer need to be tied to a fixed workstation. The machine will support four ThinkReality VRX headsets. Each of them will have free access to a dedicated NVIDIA RTX6000 Ada GPU, ensuring a top-level professional VR experience, independently by the size or complexity of the project.