Compute Blades Graphics Cards
Parallelization Tools Open Source Development Tools Density Confi guration ? 2D Card: ATI™ FireMV 2200 PCI Low Profi le, Max analog resolution 2048 x 1536, 64MB memory? 3D Card: ATI FireGL V7350 PCI-E, Max digital resolution 3840 x 2400, 1GB memory? SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ? MPI: SGI MPT, Intel MPI Library
? OpenMP: OpenMP included w/Intel compilers
? Parallel Software Products ParaWise ? Linuxapps, Freshmeat Two processor sockets per blade
? Up to 78* Intel
Fpga software Development Tool
® Die tools Itanium
® Processor sockets per rack? Dual Core Intel ? SGI’s FPGA-aware gdb
? HLL tools: Mitrionics MitrionC, Celoxica Handel-C
and DK Design Suite
® ? Intel Thread Checker ? Intel Threading Building Blocks Itanium
® Series 9000 1.67GHz, 8, 18 or 24MB/667MHz FSB? 8 DIMM slots per blade: 1GB, 2GB or 4GB DIMMs
SGI
® RASC™ Blade
Bandwidth Confi guration ? Two high performance Xilinx Virtex 4 LX200 FPGA chips with 160K logic cells? 10 QDR SRAM DIMMs per blade? SUSE Linux Enterprise Server One processor socket per blade
? Up to 39* Intel
® Itanium
® Processor sockets per rack? Dual-Core Intel
® Itanium
® Series 9000 1.67GHz, 8, 18 or 24MB/667MHz FSB? 8 DIMM slots per blade: 1GB, 2GB or 4GB DIMMs
External Storage Options
? SGI
Dimensions and Weight
JBOD Individual Rack Unit (IRU)
? Supports up to 10 blade slots
? 10U (17.38”H x 17.5”W x 32.5”D)
? Maximum weight: 263 Lbs (119kg)
Standard Rack ? Four IRU per rack
? 42U (79.5”H x 25.8”W x 45.0”D)
? Maximum weight: 1450 lbs (668kg)
? Lockable front and rear
® Infi niteStorage 120
Memory-only Blade
RAID ? Adds to shared memory without cost of cpu and associated software licenses? 12 DIMM slots per blade: 1GB, 2GB or 4GB DIMMs ? SGI
® Infi niteStorage 4000, 4500, 6700, 10000 NAS and SAN Solutions ? SGI
® Infi niteStorage 2000, 3000 Tape and Libraries - Many Options Available
I/O Blades
? Minimum of One Base I/O blade required for every Linux instance/partition? Up to two hard drives - 300GB SAS
? Two low profi le PCI-X slots? Supports 2D graphics card (details below)
? Supports HW RAID 0,1
? One 4X SAS port, one DVD R/W, two Gigabit Ethernet, and four USB
connectors manufacturers? Double blade width - for use in blade slot 1 only Base I/O Blade
Software
Operating System ? -40C to +60C (-40F to +140F) ? SUSE Linux Enterprise Server ? Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server
? Optional SGI
Environmental (Non-Operating)
PCI-X Expansion Blade - 3 slot Temperature Humidity ? Three full 64-bit/133 MHz 3.3V PCI-X slot, hot plugcapable? Double blade width, for use in blade slots 1 only
® ProPack™ on SUSE
® Linux Enterprise Server ? 8% to 95%, non-condensing
Other
? Complies with the EU ROHS regulation for elimination of toxic substances ? XVM, XVM Ple, XVM Snapshot, XFS Host Storage Software PCI-X Expansion Blade - 2 slot
® , CXFS™, DMF, Infi niteStorage Resource Manager ? Two full 64-bit/133 MHz 3.3V PCI-X slot hot-plug capable? Single blade width ? TCP/IP, NFS V2/V3, DHCP, SNMP manage-ment, SNMP MIB, NIS/ONC+ Networking PCI-Express I/O Blade - 2 slot
Environmental (Operating)
? 5C to +35C(41F to 95F),0-5000ft (0-1524m) MSL 5C to +30C(41F to 86F),5000-10,000ft (1524-3048m) MSL ? Two full PCI-Express slots
? Supports 2 standard height PCIe cards at 16X speeds.? Supports 3D graphics card options (details below)
? Single blade width Temperature PCI-X + PCI-Express I/O Blade - 4 slot
Software Development Tools
? Intel C++ and Fortran Compilers for Linux? GNU
Professional compiler for C and Fortran 77 ? Two 64-bit/133 MHz 3.3V PCI-X slots
? Two full 16x PCI-Express Slots
? Double blade width - for use in blade slot 1 only Compilers Libraries Humidity ? SGI Message Passing Toolkit (MPT)? Intel MPI and Math Kernel Libraries
? SGI Flexible File Input/Output (FFIO)? Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) ? 5% to 90%, non-condensing
? Maximum humidity gradient 10% per hour Electrical and Power ? Hot plug, redundant power
? 200 to 240 VAC, 50/60 Hz, single phase
? Up to four 30 amp circuits per rack
? 21.02 kVA/20.60 kW peak per fully confi gured rack? 20.60 kW/70.29 kBTU peak per fully confi gured rack Debuggers ? Intel Debugger
? Etnus
® TotalView
® ? GNU GDB
? Allinea Software Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT) Analysis Tools ? Intel VTune™ Performance
Professional analyzer
? Intel Trace Analyzer and Intel Trace Collector? SGI Performance Co-Pilot™
Support and Services
SGI offers full support for Altix 4700 hardware and system software. SGI also offers services to
implement and integrate Linux applications in your environment. For more information, please contact your SGI representative.
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* RedHat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 4 support is limited to 128 cpu cores and 1TB of memory. RedHat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 5 support is limited to 128 sockets and 1TB GB of memory.