Lenovo has been famous for their laptops for a long time, but they also have a strong business in computer servers. They offer hardware for data centers as well as edge locations, along with a SaaS style pricing model called TruScale.
According to Robert Daigle, Director of Global AI at Lenovo, a new system called the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE455 V3 makes it possible to run compute-heavy tasks such as generative AI in a workplace at “the edge.” The SE455 is only half as loud as comparable servers, and can survive at a temperature of 55°C, and therefore can co-exist with people in a typical office or research center.
The SE455 is powerful, with 64 cores (AMD 8004 EPYC processors), and energy-efficient. Thus, compute-heavy applications that most organizations used to run in the cloud can be done on-premises.
Daigle offers many reasons for running AI locally, especially for healthcare organizations. Keeping sensitive data from flowing over the wide-area network helps protect privacy. Local processing cuts down the cost of transferring data over the network. And a real-time application can stay up even in the face of failures in the wide-area network.
Daigle says that AI is increasingly real-time, instead of running as a background job for hours. Applications include traditional compute-heavy tasks such as medical imaging and clinical decision support. But AI is also being used now for risk segmentation, processing IoT device data, and even to improve the patient experience or to support employee queries.
Watch the video for more insights about the current and potential uses of AI and details of the new edge server from Lenovo.
Learn more about Lenovo: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/servers-storage/solutions/analytics-ai/
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