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Lenovo ThinkSystem SD650-N V3

A direct-water-cooled, single-node 1U tray for the ThinkSystem DW612S enclosure pairing two Xeon Scalable processors with four NVIDIA H200 or H100 SXM5 GPUs on an NVLink-connected HGX board, with optional 800 Gb/s GPU-Direct InfiniBand — built for large-scale HPC and generative-AI training clusters.

Memory

Slots
16 DIMM (8 per processor)
Type
Lenovo TruDDR5 RDIMM, 3DS RDIMM, 9x4 RDIMM
Speed
Up to 5600 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 2x E3.S 1T (PCIe 5.0 NVMe); up to 2x 7mm 2.5" (PCIe 5.0 NVMe); 1x 15mm 2.5" (PCIe 5.0 NVMe)
M.2
1x PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe M.2 on an adapter above the front processor
Controllers
Onboard NVMe; RAID via Intel VROC
Max capacity
30.72 TB (2x 15.36 TB E3.S NVMe); 7.68 TB (2x 3.84 TB 7mm NVMe); 3.84 TB (1x 3.84 TB 15mm NVMe)
Optical
No internal bay; external USB drive only

Graphics

GPUs
NVIDIA HGX H200 or H100 4-GPU board: 4x SXM5 GPUs interconnected with NVLink 4.0
Options
H200 141GB 700W, H100 SXM5 94G HBM2e 700W, or H100 SXM5 80G 700W
Compute (all)
34 TFLOPS FP64, 67 TFLOPS FP64 Tensor / FP32, 989 TFLOPS TF32 Tensor, 1,979 TFLOPS BF16/FP16 Tensor, 3,958 TFLOPS/TOPS FP8/INT8 Tensor (sparse)
Memory
H200: 141 GB HBM3e @ 4.8 TB/s; 80GB H100: 80 GB HBM3 @ 3.35 TB/s; 94GB H100: 94 GB HBM2e @ 2.40 TB/s
Interconnect
NVLink 900 GB/s, PCIe Gen5 128 GB/s per GPU
Power management
700W TGP with selectable power-capping modes (700W/600W/500W) affecting nodes-per-enclosure and required inlet water temperature

Expansion

Slots
Optional 1x PCIe 5.0 x16 via 1-slot riser (trades off against internal drive bays); none by default

Networking

Onboard
2x 25 Gb Ethernet SFP28 (Mellanox ConnectX-4 Lx, supports 10/25Gb), 1x 1 Gb Ethernet RJ45 (Intel I210)
GPU Direct
Optional 2x OSFP 800G cages, 4x onboard NVIDIA ConnectX-7 controllers, up to 800 Gb/s NDRx2 InfiniBand GPU-Direct per port
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 on the front of the node (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 714 mm (17.2 x 1.6 x 28.1 in)
Tray weight
22.7 kg (50.05 lb)
Enclosure
ThinkSystem DW612S, 6U rack-mounted, 447 x 264 x 933 mm (17.6 x 10.4 x 36.7 in)
Cooling
5th-generation Lenovo Neptune direct water cooling, fan-less

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 for CPU and GPU board, >97% accuracy, 100 Hz sampling
Security
TPM 2.0, 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