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Lenovo ThinkSystem SD650-I V3

A direct-water-cooled, single-node 1U tray for the ThinkSystem DW612S enclosure pairing two Xeon Scalable processors with four Intel Data Center GPU Max Series (Ponte Vecchio) accelerators linked over Xe Link, built for HPC and AI training/inference clusters. Superseded by the SD650-N V3 with NVIDIA H100 GPUs.

Memory

Slots
16 DIMM (8 per processor)
Type
Lenovo TruDDR5 RDIMM, 3DS RDIMM, 9x4 RDIMM
Speed
Up to 4800 MT/s
Max
2 TB (16 x 128 GB 3DS RDIMM)
Channels
8 per processor, 1 DIMM per channel
Protection
ECC, SDDC, Patrol/Demand Scrubbing, Bounded Fault, DRAM Address Command Parity with Replay, On-die ECC, ECS, Post Package Repair

Storage

Drive bays
One of: up to 4x E3.S 1T (PCIe 5.0 NVMe); up to 4x 7mm 2.5" (SATA or PCIe 5.0 NVMe); up to 2x 15mm 2.5" (PCIe 5.0 NVMe)
Bay/slot tradeoff
Full bay count with 0 PCIe slots; half with 1 slot; 0 bays (M.2 only) with 2 PCIe slots
M.2
1x PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe M.2 (2280/22110) on an adapter above the front processor
Controllers
Onboard SATA and NVMe; RAID via Intel VROC
Max capacity
61.44 TB (4x 15.36 TB E3.S NVMe); 30.72 TB (4x 7.68 TB 7mm SATA) or 15.36 TB (4x 3.84 TB 7mm NVMe); 7.68 TB (2x 3.84 TB 15mm NVMe)
Optical
No internal bay; external USB drive only

Graphics

GPUs
4x Intel Data Center GPU Max Series OAM board: Max 1550 (128 GB HBM2e, 600W), Max 1550VG (128 GB HBM2e, 600W), Max 1450 (128 GB HBM2e, 600W), or Max 1350 (96 GB HBM2e, 450W)
Compute (Max 1550/1450)
52 TFLOPS FP64/FP32, 839 TFLOPS XMX BF16/FP16, 1678 TOPS XMX INT8, 3.2 TB/s memory bandwidth, 1.6 GHz max
Compute (Max 1350)
44 TFLOPS FP64/FP32, 711 TFLOPS XMX BF16/FP16, 1422 TFLOPS XMX INT8, 2.4 TB/s memory bandwidth, 1.55 GHz max
Interconnect
Intel Xe Link 636 GB/s (Max 1550/1350) or 318 GB/s (Max 1450) bi-directional, plus PCIe Gen5 x16 (128 GB/s) per GPU
Power management
Selectable TGP presets of 450W or 550W, factory-set, in addition to the 600W/450W nominal TGP

Expansion

Slots
Up to 2x PCIe 5.0 x16, low-profile form factor (each slot mutually exclusive with one drive bay)

Networking

Onboard
2x 25 Gb Ethernet SFP28 (Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx, supports 10/25Gb), 1x 1 Gb Ethernet RJ45 (Intel I210)
Shared NIC
1 Gb port and 25 Gb port 1 can share with XClarity Controller for Wake-on-LAN/NC-SI

Power

Enclosure supplies
6x or 9x air-cooled hot-swap (80 PLUS Titanium/Platinum), or 2x or 3x water-cooled hot-swap, installed at the rear of the DW612S enclosure
Input
200-240V AC nominal, 50/60 Hz

Ports

Node
External diagnostics port; console connector (breakout cable provides 1x VGA, 1x USB 3.1 Gen1 5Gb/s, 1x DB9 serial)
Enclosure (SMM)
2x RJ45 10/100/1000 Ethernet, daisy-chainable across up to 7 enclosures

Physical

Tray dimensions
438 x 41 x 693 mm (17.2 x 1.6 x 27.3 in)
Tray weight
20.5 kg (45.2 lb)
Enclosure
ThinkSystem DW612S, 6U rack-mounted, 447 x 264 x 933 mm (17.6 x 10.4 x 36.7 in)
Enclosure weight
Empty 24.3 kg (53.5 lb); fully configured 182.9-188.7 kg (403-416 lb)
Cooling
5th-generation Lenovo Neptune direct water cooling, fan-less; water 2-45°C (ASHRAE W45), air 10-35°C (ASHRAE A2)

Management

BMC
XClarity Controller 2 (XCC2) on ASPEED AST2600
Enclosure management
System Management Module (SMM2) in the DW612S enclosure
Protocols
IPMI 2.0, SNMP 3.0, Redfish REST API
Optional
XCC Platinum: remote KVM, remote media, FIPS 140-3
Power monitoring
TI INA226-based power/energy meter, >97% accuracy, 100 Hz sampling
Security
TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, AES-NI, Intel SGX Enclave (up to 512GB via Intel On Demand), power-on/admin passwords

Operating systems

Certified
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Ubuntu
Tested
Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux

Processors

  • Intel Xeon Gold 6526Y
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6534
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6542Y
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6544Y
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6548Y+
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6558Q
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8558
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8562Y+
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8568Y+
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8570
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8580
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8593Q
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6426Y
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6434
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6442Y
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6444Y
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6448Y
  • Intel Xeon Gold 6458Q
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8458P
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8460Y+
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8462Y+
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8468
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8468V
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8470
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8470Q
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8480CL
  • Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H
  • Intel Xeon CPU Max 9462
  • Intel Xeon CPU Max 9460
  • Intel Xeon CPU Max 9468
  • Intel Xeon CPU Max 9470
  • Intel Xeon CPU Max 9480