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Lenovo DE6600: The Storage Engine Built for HPC Acceleration

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Lightning fast with oodles of capacity, meet the DE6600

High-Performance Computing (HPC) isn’t just about raw compute—it’s about feeding those processors with data at blistering speed. That’s where Lenovo’s ThinkSystem DE6600 series comes in. Designed from the ground up for extreme throughput and ultra-low latency, DE6600 delivers the performance HPC workloads demand without compromise.

With end-to-end NVMe architecture, DE6600 achieves sub-100µs latency and up to 2 million IOPS, ensuring your compute nodes never idle waiting for data. Sequential read bandwidth of 42–44 GB/s means massive datasets stream effortlessly to simulation engines, AI training clusters, and real-time analytics platforms. For organizations chasing faster time-to-insight, this is a game-changer.

Scalability? DE6600 starts at 367 TB and scales to 1.8 PiB in all-flash or 7.7 PiB in hybrid configurations, supporting exponential growth without disruptive migrations. It integrates seamlessly with HPC staples like BeeGFS and supports high-speed protocols—NVMe over RoCE, NVMe-FC, InfiniBand, and iSCSI—to fit any cluster design.

Reliability is baked in: active-active controllers, Dynamic Disk Pools for advanced protection, and 99.9999% uptime keep workloads running even under peak demand. Add Lenovo XClarity for simplified management, and you’ve got a platform that’s as easy to operate as it is powerful.

The bottom line? DE6600 isn’t just fast—it’s efficient. Compared to legacy SAS arrays, NVMe doubles throughput while optimizing cost per IOPS, freeing budget for compute resources and accelerating innovation.

Ready to supercharge your HPC environment? Explore Lenovo DE6600 and see how it can transform your data pipeline. https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/data-center/storage/thinksystem-de-series or connect with Lenovo HPC experts to design your next-generation architecture.

Contributed by Lenovo.