Turn Your Institution into a Powerful AI Hub with Lenovo Workstations

1. On-Campus Lab

Enhance your traditional classroom and lab setups with dedicated desktop workstations or rack-mounted units.

Who: Admin staff

What: Light AI tasks, basic CAD, entry-level programming

Recommendation: ThinkStation P3 Tiny with ThinkCentre Tiny-In-One 24. The ThinkStation P3 Tiny is the world's smallest workstation, offering an Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 processor, 32GB DDR5 memory, and optional NVIDIA discrete graphics. The ThinkCentre Tiny-In-One 24 Gen 5 monitor is a perfect companion for a clean desk solution, enabling multitasking and quick installation.

2. Mobile Labs

Create powerful labs for learning, wherever it takes place, with powerful, flexible and portable workstations.

Who: Teaching staff

What: Remote class prep, light to moderate AI workloads, flexible classroom usage

Recommendation: ThinkPad P16v with ThinkVision M14t. The ThinkPad P16v offers high-performance workstation power in a slim, lightweight model. The ThinkVision M14t is a portable touchscreen with pen support, ideal for annotating materials and engaging students. With Intel vPro® Gen Intel® Core™ processing power, it handles large, heavy workloads and multitasking with ease.

Who: Researchers

What: Data-heavy and complex spreadsheets, statistical software

Recommendation: ThinkPad P1 with ThinkVision M15. Delivers high performance for demand-intensive workflows, perfect for film and media, design and architecture, and computer and data science students. With Intel vPro® with up to Intel® Core™ i9 HX Series processors, it offers powerful performance on campus, at home, and on the go. The ThinkVision M15 provides an extra screen for data analysis, coding, or comparing documents.

3. Faculty Lab

Make it easy to switch to expert mode. Our ultimate desktop workstations are ideal for advanced data science and AI projects.

Who: Master's and PHDs

What: Advanced overall performance, large AI model training, data analytics, complex CAD and research

Recommendation: ThinkStation P5 with ThinkVision P27QD-40. Built to handle complex workloads, ideal for Master's and PHD-level teaching and learning. Students and staff can push performance with Intel® Xeon® CPUs and NVIDIA RTX™™ graphics. The ThinkVision P27QD-40 is a color-accurate powerhouse with effortless connectivity and smart power delivery.

4. Researcher Labs

Our research-ready workstations are built for data collection, inferencing and GPU-intensive workloads.

Who: Researchers

What: Historical Painting Imaging, AI and Machine Learning Development, X-Ray Image Analysis, Archival Document Digitisation, IoT-Based Environmental Monitoring, Edge Computing for Research Fieldwork

Recommendations:

• ThinkStation PX with ThinkVision P27QD-40: Built for extreme computing demands with dual Intel® Xeon 64-core processors, up to four NVIDIA RTX 6000 Blackwell GPUs, and 2TB memory. It empowers researchers to accelerate discovery and innovation. The ThinkVision P27QD-40 setup eliminates workflow interruptions and empowers remote management.
• ThinkPad P16 with ThinkVision P34WD-40: Delivers workstation-class performance in a highly mobile form factor, ideal for researchers in the field or across remote sites. Designed for AI model development, real-time data analysis, and 3D visualization, with up to 192GB memory and an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX Pro GPU with 24GB VRAM. It ensures seamless performance and empowers researchers to work reliably, securely, and efficiently. The ultrawide ThinkVision P34w-40 monitor is perfect for multitasking and data comparison.

5. AI Development Hub

Lenovo workstations give you the power to take on machine and deep learning, large language modeling (LLM), data science, and data analytics—so you can push the boundaries of AI-enabled innovation.

Who: AI Researchers/Academics

What: AI tool development for LLM or SLM, Anaconda and Python

Recommendations:

• ThinkStation P3 Ultra SFF with ThinkVision P27QD-40: Built for compact spaces but packed with performance power. Blazingly-fast Intel vPro® with Intel® Core™ processors and vast memory make light work of AI and other advanced applications. Paired with the ThinkVision P27QD-40, it gives university IT teams the clarity and workspace needed for developing, testing, and fine-tuning AI tools with precision.
• ThinkStation P5 with ThinkVision P34WD-40: Designed with advanced data science and AI projects in mind, these workstations are ideal for AI development and tuning. Available with Intel® Xeon® processors and up to NVIDIA Blackwell RTX Pro, students and staff can break new ground with AI. The ultra-wide, high-resolution curved display allows efficient multitasking across datasets, development environments, and monitoring tools—all on a single screen.

Make the most of it

Services and solutions to complement your devices and optimize the working environment for your users.

A sustainable lifecycle

With Asset Recovery Services, you can lessen your environmental impact, protect sensitive data, and even provide a return on tech investment.

Manage your labs intelligently

Lenovo Device Orchestration helps IT teams manage, monitor, and optimize device fleets across OS platforms with AI-powered tools for performance tracking, software management, and proactive issue resolution.

24/7 Best in class support

With Lenovo's Premier Support and Premiere Support Plus, your school can look forward to a 24/7 advanced technical support solution when your institution needs it most.

Security first

Supplement the built-in, on-device security features with Lenovo's industry leading software solutions that support the needs of educators, including security, classroom management and beyond.

Reduce operational costs and boost productivity, fast

Lenovo's configuration solutions ease the burden of configuring new devices on your IT department while reducing operational costs and allowing people to start using their devices quicker.

Flexibility, scalability and a better bottom line

Lenovo's TruScale Device as-a-Service (DaaS) can help your school to manage costs more effectively, further boost security, and provide a lot more choice when it comes to hardware.

"With this latest TruScale DaaS deal, we have more direct contact with Lenovo and are taking advantage of more support services that wrap around the hardware than we did in the past, strengthening our relationship with Lenovo."

Suzie Chadwick
Head of Service, Cranfield University