SGI

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Altix

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4700 Serversand Supercomputers

Revolutionary Platform Delivers New Levels of Performance and Flexibility with a Functional Blade Design

System Highlights • Unique modular blade design for superior performance density and ‘plug and solve’ fl exibility? Designed for future upgrade, expansion and integration of next-generation technologies ? Scalable system size for simplifi ed programming, administration and sustained performance ? Standards-based platform reduces cost while delivering uncompromised performance on Linux
® Modular Blade Design for Superior Performance Density and ‘Plug and Solve’ Flexibility SGI
® Altix
® 4700 platform is comprised of modular blades - 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 a variety of standardized blade choices, for perfect system right-sizing. The compact blade packaging of the Altix 4700 rack also provides excellent performance density, delivering over one teraflop per tall rack. SGI Altix 4700 is offered with two alternate compute blades; one optimized for maximum performance with top memory bandwidth and another optimized for cost-effective compute density. Designed for Future Upgrade, Expansion and Integration of Next-Generation Technologies SGI Altix 4700 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 4700 also integrates SGI’s Peer I/O technology which enables high-speed access to SGI’s large shared memory for all system components. Through peer I/O, SGI Altix 4700 is the first SGI platform designed to support new professional computing paradigms, such as reconfigurable computing, that will take over where Moore’s Law leaves off. Scalable System Size for Simplifi ed Programming, Easy Administration and Sustained Performance SGI Altix 4700 platform incorporates the shared-memory NUMAflex™ architec-ture, which simplifies software development, workload management and system administration. It supports up to 512* sockets or 1024 cores under one instance of Linux and as much as 128TB 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 4700 server represents a versatile solution for shared or distributed memory applications of any scale. Standards-Based Platform Reduces Cost While Delivering Uncompromised Performance on Linux
® Operating System Like its predecessors, the SGI Altix 4700 platform has been designed specifically for technical users based on industry standard CPUs, memory and I/O. This infrastructure is supported by a complete HPC solution stack running on industry standard Linux
® operating systems with the choice of Novell
® SUSE
® LINUX Enterprise Server or Red Hat
® Enterprise Linux
® Advanced Server operating systems. SGI
® ProPack™ software provides the tools and enabling applications to optimize performance for Altix systems.