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Lenovo ThinkSystem SD665-N V3

A single-node, GPU-dense, direct-water-cooled server tray for the ThinkSystem DW612S enclosure, pairing one or two 5th/4th Gen AMD EPYC processors with four NVIDIA H200 or H100 SXM GPUs on NVLink, for large-scale AI training and HPC clusters.

Memory

Slots
24 DIMM (12 per processor)
Type
Lenovo TruDDR5 RDIMM, 3DS RDIMM, 9x4 RDIMM
Speed
Up to 6400 MT/s (5th Gen EPYC), up to 4800 MT/s (4th Gen EPYC)
Max
3 TB per node (24 x 128 GB 3DS RDIMM)
Channels
12 per processor, 1 DIMM per channel
Protection
ECC, SDDC, Patrol/Demand Scrubbing, Bounded Fault, DRAM Address Command Parity with Replay, DRAM Uncorrected ECC Error Retry, On-die ECC, ECS, Post Package Repair
Persistent memory
Not supported

Storage

Drive bays
Internal, not hot-swap, not front-accessible: 2x E3.S 1T (PCIe 5.0 NVMe), or 2x 7mm 2.5" (PCIe 5.0 NVMe), or 1x 15mm 2.5" (PCIe 5.0 NVMe) - drives connect to CPU 1 only
Drive support
NVMe only; SATA and SAS not supported; no hardware RAID
M.2
1x PCIe 4.0 x4 M.2 NVMe boot drive on an adapter mounted above the front processor
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

Expansion

Slots
None (PCIe lanes are dedicated to the 4 onboard GPUs and networking)

Networking

Onboard
2x 25 Gb Ethernet SFP28 (Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx, 10/25 Gb); 1x 1 Gb Ethernet RJ45 (Intel I210)
GPU-direct InfiniBand
Optional 2x OSFP 800 Gb/s cages providing GPU Direct InfiniBand NDRx2 connectivity via 4 onboard NVIDIA ConnectX-7 controllers (dual 400 Gb or single 800 Gb per cage)
Shared NIC
1 Gb port and 25 Gb port 1 can optionally share with XCC for Wake-on-LAN/NC-SI

Power

Enclosure supplies
6x or 9x 2400W/2600W 230V hot-swap air-cooled (80 PLUS Platinum/Titanium), or 2x or 3x 7200W hot-swap water-cooled (Titanium)
GPU power modes
Configurable Total Graphics Power (TGP/EDPc) per node: 700W (max performance), 600W (performance optimized), 500W (power efficiency), set at the factory
Redundancy
N+1 or N+N, depending on configuration and node population
Input
200-240V AC nominal, 50/60 Hz
Power cords
1x C19 per air-cooled PSU; 3x C19 per water-cooled PSU

Ports

Node front
External diagnostics port; console connector (breakout cable provides 1x VGA, 1x USB 3.1 Gen1 (5 Gb/s), 1x DB9 serial); 2x 25Gb SFP28; 1x 1Gb RJ45; optional 2x OSFP 800Gb
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), 1U tray holding 1 node
Tray weight
23.6 kg (52.0 lb)
Enclosure
ThinkSystem DW612S, 6U rack-mounted, 447 x 264 x 933 mm (17.6 x 10.4 x 36.7 in)
Enclosure capacity
Up to 6x SD665-N V3 nodes (1 node per tray) per DW612S enclosure
Enclosure weight
Empty 24.3 kg (53.5 lb); fully configured 182.9-188.7 kg (403-416 lb) without water manifold
Cooling
5th-generation Lenovo Neptune direct water cooling, fan-less; operating water 2-45 degC (ASHRAE W45), operating air 10-35 degC (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
Video
Embedded 2D graphics with 16 MB memory in XCC; max 1920x1200 32bpp @ 60 Hz
Security
TPM 2.0, power-on/admin passwords, Secure Boot

Operating systems

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

Processors

  • AMD EPYC 9135
  • AMD EPYC 9175F
  • AMD EPYC 9255
  • AMD EPYC 9275F
  • AMD EPYC 9335
  • AMD EPYC 9355
  • AMD EPYC 9355P
  • AMD EPYC 9365
  • AMD EPYC 9375F
  • AMD EPYC 9455
  • AMD EPYC 9455P
  • AMD EPYC 9475F
  • AMD EPYC 9535
  • AMD EPYC 9555
  • AMD EPYC 9555P
  • AMD EPYC 9565
  • AMD EPYC 9575F
  • AMD EPYC 9655
  • AMD EPYC 9655P
  • AMD EPYC 9645
  • AMD EPYC 9745
  • AMD EPYC 9825
  • AMD EPYC 9845
  • AMD EPYC 9124
  • AMD EPYC 9174F
  • AMD EPYC 9224
  • AMD EPYC 9254
  • AMD EPYC 9274F
  • AMD EPYC 9334
  • AMD EPYC 9354
  • AMD EPYC 9354P
  • AMD EPYC 9374F
  • AMD EPYC 9454
  • AMD EPYC 9454P
  • AMD EPYC 9474F
  • AMD EPYC 9534
  • AMD EPYC 9554
  • AMD EPYC 9554P
  • AMD EPYC 9634
  • AMD EPYC 9654
  • AMD EPYC 9654P
  • AMD EPYC 9184X
  • AMD EPYC 9384X
  • AMD EPYC 9684X
  • AMD EPYC 9734
  • AMD EPYC 9754