SGI

®

Altix

®

450 Professional servers

Revolutionary Mid-range Server Delivers New Levels of Performance, Effi ciency and Flexibility with aModular Blade Design

System Highlights ? Scalable blade design for excellent performance density and ‘plug and solve’ fl exibility? Delivers industry-leading power effi ciency—best sustained fl ops per watt ? Designed for future upgrade and expansion ? Scalable system size for simplifi ed programming, administration and sustained performance ? Standards-based platform reduces cost while delivering uncompromised performance on Linux Innovative Modular Blade Design for Excellent Performance Density and ‘Plug and Solve’ Flexibility SGI
® Altix
® 450 servers are configured from interchangeable compute, memory, I/O and special purpose blades for ‘plug and solve’ configuration flexibility. The innovative blade-to-NUMAlink™ architecture enables users to mix and match nine standardized blade choices, for perfect system right-sizing. The compact blade packaging of the Altix 450 rack also provides excellent performance density—up to half a teraflop per half rack—as well as industry-leading power efficiency. Designed for Future Upgrade, Expansion and Integration of Next-generation Technologies SGI Altix 450 supports Dual-Core Intel
® Itanium
® Processors, and offers easy upgrade or expansion of memory, I/O or other capabilities. This flexible growth path makes it possible for customers to adjust system configurations to meet current and changing requirements easily and cost-effectively— minimum risk for maximum productivity. Altix 450 also features peer-connectivity for all com- ponents which enables high-speed access to SGI’s large shared memory. Scalable System Size for Simplifi ed Programming, Easy Administration and Sustained Performance SGI Altix 450 incorporates the shared-memory NUMAflex™ architecture, which simplifies software development, workload management and system administration. It supports up to 38 sockets* (76 cores) under one instance of Linux and up to 864 GB of globally addressable memory. Supporting these powerful capabilities is the NUMAlink™ interconnect, which leads the industry in bandwidth and latency for superior performance on cluster applications. The SGI Altix 450 represents a versatile solution for shared or distributed memory applications. Standards-based Platform Reduces Cost While Delivering Uncompro-mised Performance on Linux SGI Altix 450 servers have been designed specifically for demanding users based on industry standard cpu’s, memory and I/O. This infrastructure is sup-ported by a complete solution stack running on industry standard Linux
® oper-ating systems with the choice of Novell
® SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or Red Hat
® Enterprise Linux
® Advanced Server 4 operating systems. SGI
® ProPack™ software provides the tools and enabling software to optimize performance for Altix systems.