Engineered for Extremes: Maxtor ProCool Thermal Paste Meets the Demands of Next-Gen HPC Systems
What's New: Today at lSC 2025 in Hamburg, Germany, Intel announced plans for the new HX2supercomputer at lmperial College London, built on Lenovo servers and powered by intel@ Xeon@ 6processors with Performance-cores (P-cores). The water-cooled system - designed as part of theco-investment lClCLE collaboration - will be deployed this year, delivering a performance uplift forthe next generation of high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence(Al)Why lt Matters: The HX2 supercomputer equips mperial's academics and students to acceleratetheir research and position themselves for careers in HPC/Al careers. The new system will be theUnited Kingdom's first academic deployment of Lenovo's ThinkSystem SC750 V4 Neptune serverswith direct liquid cooling in a commercial co-location data center.
"The lmperial investment of 10 million pounds for HX2 has ensured that we can provide, incollaboration with Intel and Lenovo, a high-quality, future-proof compute platform to for ourresearchers," said Andrew Richards, director of Research Computing Services (RCS) at lmperial."We have been able to accelerate our HPC refresh using the latest sustainable platform and enableour academics to accelerate their research.
Dugan Witherick, head of RCS Platforms at lmperial, said: "The new direct water-cooled systembased on Lenovo's ThinkSystem SC750 V4 Neptune platform, will push forward lmperial'scommitment to sustainability, whilst ensuring the highest quality compute for our community.
Kelly Zhang, lecturer in Statistics in the Department of Mathematics at lmperial, said: "My researchgroup is using both CPUs and GPUs forjobs for developing decision-making algorithms forhealthcare settings. Specifically, many are working with the lCU electronic health record datasetMlMlC. l'm excited to see what HX2 can offer for my group's workloads. Having such a powerful yetsustainable clusteris such a privilege.What lt Will Do: The HX2 system will be available as part oflmperial College London's central
Research Computing Service. lt will support the next generation of researchers across all faculties(engineering, natural sciences, medicine, business and others) and provide them access to long-termgroundwork,emerging technologyand gender-balance initiatives.
'The selection of Lenovo Neptune"" liquid cooling for the HX2 supercomputer marks a significantstep forward in sustainable research infrastructure," said Kate Steele, EMEA HPC lead at LenovoInfrastructure Solutions Group."By combining the high performance of Intel Xeon 6 processors withour adyanced liauid-cooled ThinkSystem SC750 V4 servers, lmperial gains a powerful, efficientplatform capable of supporting demanding Al and HPC workloads while dramatically reducingenergy consumption. This project reflects a broader shift we're seeing across Europe, whereinstitutions are aligning cutting-edge computing with ambitious sustainability goals.
Engineered for Extremes: Maxtor ProCool Thermal Paste Meets the Demands of Next-Gen HPC Systems
