ThinkSystem SD650 V2 High-Density Server
Liquid cooling innovation for a highly efficient data center
Neptune™ Liquid Cooling technology in the ThinkSystem SD650 V2 delivers greater performance and density while reducing energy costs up to 40% vs. air-cooled systems.
Features

Lenovo Neptune™ technology
The ThinkSystem SD650 V2 with Lenovo Neptune Direct to Node (DTN) technology utilizes warm-water cooling (up to 50⁰C) to remove heat from the CPUs, memory, I/O, local storage, and voltage regulators. Because water provides superior heat removal compared to air, the critical components all operate at lower temperatures, delivering greater performance and density in quiet, energy efficient system.

Greater performance, density
The ThinkSystem SD650 V2 is powered by dual 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Platinum processor CPUs. Because of Neptune™ liquid cooling technology, it can run CPUs up to 270W in a compact, 1/2U form-factor, compared to 165-205W CPUs for air-cooled 1/2U systems. A single rack of ThinkSystem SD650 V2s can deliver half a Petaflop of compute power without using accelerators.

Quiet efficiency
Because water cooling keeps the components cooler, the ThinkSystem SD650 V2 does not have fans, which are a major consumer of energy. Customers who have implemented Neptune™ DTN systems have estimated up to 40% savings on energy costs. Removing the system fans eliminates the fan noise, providing nearly silent operation.
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Tech Specs
Form Factor | Full-wide 1U tray (two SD650 V2 nodes per tray, six per DW612 Enclosure) |
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Chassis | DW612 Enclosure (6U) |
Processors | Two third-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors per node; 2x nodes per 1U tray |
Memory | Up to 2TB using 16x 128GB 3200MHz TruDDR4 DIMMs per node |
I/O Expansion | Up to 2x PCIe Gen4 x16 low-profile adapter slots (2x supported without internal storage) per node for HDR InfiniBand or Intel Omni Path. SharedIO supported. |
Internal Storage | Up to 2x 2.5-inch SATA SSDs (7mm height) or 1x 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs (15mm height) per node; up to 2x M.2 SATA SSDs for operating system boot functions |
RAID Support | Onboard SATA controller with SW RAID or Intel VROC |
Network Interfaces | Two onboard Ethernet interfaces: 1x 25GbE SFP28 LOM (1Gb, 10Gb or 25Gb capable; supports NC-SI) and 1x 1GbE RJ45 (supports NC-SI) |
Power Management | Rack-level power capping and management via Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit (xCAT) |
Systems Management | Systems management using Lenovo Intelligent Computing Orchestration (LiCO) and XClarity Controller (XCC). Supports TPM 2.0 for advanced cryptographic functionality. SMM management module in the enclosure, supports daisy chaining to reduce cabling requirements |
Front access | All adapters and drives are accessible from the front of the server. Front ports include KVM breakout connector and External Diagnostics Handset port for local management. |
Rear access | 2x RJ45 on the SMM management module in the enclosure for XCC with daisy chain support; USB 2.0 for SMM FFDC log collection |
Power Supply | 6x hot-swap power supplies, either 1800W or 2400W, supporting N+1 redundancy |
OS Support | Red Hat, SUSE, CentOS (with LeSI support); Visit lenovopress.com/osig for more information. |
Limited Warranty | 3-year customer replaceable unit and onsite limited warranty, next business day 9x5, service upgrades available |
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