NVIDIA and Lenovo workstation solutions.

Lenovo ThinkStation workstations—featuring NVIDIA® Quadro® and ATI FirePro™ professional graphics and NVIDIA Tesla™ high-performance computing (HPC) solutions—provide a powerful, versatile solution to the graphics and high-performance computing demands of professional users. Lenovo integrates Quadro and Tesla solutions to ensure optimized system performance.

Revolutionary visual computing solutions

You need your applications to perform above and beyond. To solve complex challenges. The answer? A unified architecture: NVIDIA Quadro and ATI FirePro professional graphics solutions. These solutions take the leading computer-aided design (CAD), digital content creation (DCC) and visualization applications to a new level of interactivity by enabling unprecedented capabilities in performance, programmability and precision.

Key points:

• Outstanding GPU performance with NVIDIA unified architecture
• Fastest application performance
• Highest-quality workstation graphics
• Certified on all industry-leading professional applications
• Flexible platform that can be paired with best-in-class industry solutions
• Largest frame buffers
• C programming environment for the GPU
• Reference standard for shader model 4.0
• Application-specific plug-ins, like the Elemental Accelerator™ for Adobe® Premier Pro CS4

GPU computing solutions for HPC

NVIDIA Tesla GPU computing solves the world's most important challenges by advancing HPC with a massively multithreaded architecture. Develop applications faster and deploy them across multiple generations of processors.

Key points:

• Industry's first massively multithreaded architecture with a 240-core computing processor
• World's only C development environment for the GPU
• Suite of developer tools: C-compiler, debugger, performance profiler and optimized libraries
• Largest ISV development community for GPU computing applications
• Fits seamlessly into existing HPC environments
• Faster application development
• Ability to deploy applications across multiple generations of processors
• Elemental Accelerator for Quadro: Up to 11 times faster H.264 video encoding for Web uploading or Blu-ray Disc™ burning and a range of additional plug-ins enabling advanced capabilities for light emulation, effects and color correction

ATI and Lenovo workstation solutions

ThinkStation S20 and D20 models now offer select ATI FirePro graphics adapters.

The latest ATI FirePro graphics technologies

ATI FirePro 3-D workstation graphics cards combine a new ATI OpenGL-optimized driver with the award-winning ATI FireGL graphics technology. The result? A new level of graphics performance and reliability for professional 3-D graphics users. Perfect for CAD, DCC and more.

Key points:

• DisplayPort output for superior 30-bit image quality
• Scalable ultra-parallel processing architecture with 320 unified shaders
• Instinctively optimized performance for multi-application workflow with AutoDetect
• Dual-link DVI output for driving super-high-resolution widescreen monitors
• High dynamic range (HDR) rendering with 8-bit, 10-bit and 16-bit per RGB color component support
• Hardware acceleration of DirectX® 10.1 and OpenGL® 2.1 advanced features
• Optimized and certified for many CAD and DCC applications
• PCI Express 2.0-compliant