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Lenovo ThinkSystem SC750 V4

A direct water-cooled, dense HPC/AI compute node: two 2-socket nodes per tray, up to 16 nodes in a 13U ThinkSystem N1380 Neptune enclosure, built around Intel Xeon 6900-series processors.

Memory

Slots
24 DIMM (12 per processor, 12 memory channels per processor, 1 DPC)
Max
3 TB per node using 24 x 128 GB TruDDR5 RDIMM
Speed
6400 MHz RDIMM / 8000 MHz RDIMM (6900E+) / 8800 MHz MRDIMM (6900P)
Protection
ECC, SDDC (x4 DIMMs), ADDDC (x4 DIMMs), Bounded Fault, memory mirroring

Storage

Drive bays
Up to 6 x E3.S EDSFF NVMe SSDs per node, non-hot-swap
Max capacity
92.16 TB using 6 x 15.36 TB E3.S NVMe SSDs
Controller
Onboard NVMe ports; RAID 0/1/10 (and RAID 5 with Premium license) via Intel VROC

Expansion

Slot 1
PCIe 5.0 x16 low profile, connected to CPU 1 (mutually exclusive with E3.S bay)
Slot 2
PCIe 5.0 x16 low profile, connected to CPU 2 (mutually exclusive with E3.S bay)

Networking

Onboard
2 x 25GbE SFP28 (Broadcom 57414) + 1 x 1GbE RJ45 (Intel I210)
Options
NVIDIA ConnectX-7 (NDR200/HDR/200GbE, NDR400 InfiniBand) and ConnectX-8 adapters, with Shared I/O and Socket Direct support

Power

Enclosure PSU
Up to 4 x water-cooled hot-swap power conversion stations (PCS), 80 PLUS Titanium
Input
380-480 Vac, 3-phase WYE; 30A per power conversion station
Redundancy
N+1 or N+N depending on power policy and node population

Ports

Front/rear
External diagnostics port, VGA, USB-C DisplayPort video, 2 x USB 3 (5 Gb/s), RJ-45 1GbE XCC management, mini-USB serial

Physical

Tray dimensions
546 x 53 x 760 mm (21.5 x 2.1 x 29.9 in), 799 mm incl. water connections
Tray weight
37.2 kg (82 lb)
Enclosure (N1380)
540 x 572 x 1302 mm (21.3 x 22.5 x 51.2 in), 13U
Enclosure weight
Empty 94 kg (208 lb); fully configured with 4 PCS and 8 trays (16 nodes) 485 kg (1069 lb)

Management

BMC
XClarity Controller 3 (XCC3), ASPEED AST2600; optional XCC3 Premier for remote KVM/media
Enclosure
System Management Module (SMM3) in N1380: power, cooling and leak monitoring for chassis/tray/PCS, daisy-chain up to 99 connections
Protocols
IPMI 2.0, SNMP 3.0, Redfish REST API

Operating systems

Supported & Certified
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4-10.2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6/SP7/16, Ubuntu 22.04/24.04/26.04 LTS, VMware ESXi 9.1 (P-core CPUs)
E-core CPUs
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.8/10.2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16, Ubuntu 24.04/26.04 LTS
Tested
Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux

Processors

  • Intel Xeon 6990E+
  • Intel Xeon 6952P
  • Intel Xeon 6960P
  • Intel Xeon 6966P-C
  • Intel Xeon 6972P
  • Intel Xeon 6979P
  • Intel Xeon 6980P