Vendor Highlight: Silicon Graphics
The SGI Altix family of servers is based on one of the most flexible and scalable architectures in the world today. Customers can combine 8 high-density, interchangeable blades to configure just the right amount of compute, memory, I/O and visualization resources for their particular requirements. The SGI Altix 4700 scales up to 1,024 Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and 128 TB of globally shared memory. The smaller SGI Altix 450 scales up to 36 dual-core processors and up to 456 GB of shared memory.
Both systems can run under a single Linux image, which simplifies software development, workload management and system administration. The innovative blade-to-NUMAlink™ architecture also provides industry-leading bandwidth and latency, for superior performance for distributed memory applications. With standards-based components, configurable systems and extreme scalability, SGI gives customers unprecedented flexibility for solving some of today’s most compute-intensive problems.
Products for Intel® Itanium® 2 Architecture
