By: TOP500 Team

Lenovo today announced the opening of the company’s first global High Performance Computing (HPC) innovation centre, offering a permanent R&D and application benchmarking site as well as a new ecosystem of partners that will collaborate on projects to bring the commercial benefits of HPC to a broader spectrum of clients and workloads.  Located in Stuttgart, Germany, the centre marks Lenovo’s commitment to enterprise computing and ambitions to become the number one Open Systems vendor in the market.
 
Coinciding with the opening, Lenovo has also been accepted as a full member of the European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing (ETP4HPC) – an industry-led forum that leverages the transformative power of HPC to boost European competiveness in science, business and industry.
 
Working closely with Intel, the centre offers the latest Intel® Xeon® E5 2600 v3 processor with Mellanox EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand interconnect fabric leveraging Lenovo’s dense NeXtScale System as base compute platform.  It will leverage the deep knowledge and specific skills of several specialised client partners from across Europe that will collaborate to further expand capabilities and advance localised research.
 
“Today marks a milestone in our ambition as an enterprise company," said Aymar de Lencquesaing, EMEA president and senior vice president, Lenovo. "Not only are we opening the company’s first global HPC centre but we are reaffirming our commitment, investment and ambitions in the enterprise. The EMEA market has huge potential for HPC and provides a fertile ground for us to lead major advancements in projects and research that have an incredible impact on both industry and society.”