SGI
Altix
ICE Integrated Blade Platform
A New Era in High Performance Professional computing for Breakthrough Performance and Power with Unsurpassed Value
System Highlights ?
Purpose-built for High Performance Computing (HPC)
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Effi cient blade architecture reduces complexity, minimizes downtime, and simplifi es management
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Integrated storage infrastructure, based on SGI
Infi niteStorage high performance storage product line
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Factory integrated, with SGI Power Up & Go design for easy deployment & immediate productivity
Designed with Performance in Mind SGI
Altix ICE was built with High Performance Computing in mind. The SGI Altix ICE integrated blade architecture was designed from the ground up to minimize system overhead, and drive the best possible performance density for optimal use of valuable data center resources. SGI Altix ICE combines the powerful Dual- and Quad-core Intel
Xeon
Processor architecture with a unique board design that yields maximum performance density, delivering up the 512 processor cores in a single rack, and easily scaling to thousands of nodes to address the most challenging compute problems. And, with fl exibility to optimize for sheer performance or price/performance, SGI Altix ICE delivers breakthrough value by precisely addressing customer needs - today and tomorrow. Across the Board Effi ciency with Maximum Uptime and Simplifi ed Usage SGI Altix ICE raises the bar for HPC value in a platform designed to drive power/cooling effi ciency and advanced reliability, easily addressing the demanding requirements of todays data center. The SGI Altix ICE platform leverages SGIfi eld-proven power and cooling technology innovations, fi rst developed for the SGI
Altix
line of supercomputers. SGI has leveraged this and other Altix technology innovations in SGI Altix ICE, virtually eliminating cables in SGI Altix ICE blade enclosures, designing in system component redundancy for enhanced reliability. The SGI Altix ICE diskless blade architecture further enhances reliability and eliminates a critical point of system failure, while reducing power/ cooling requirements and overall system cost. The result? A system with unmatched reliability, effi ciency, performance, and overall value. Power Up & Go with SGI Altix ICE The SGI Altix ICE Power Up & Go design delivers 6 TFlops of compute power per rack for an immediate boost in processing power and productivity. An elegant design that integrates blades, switches, storage, and interconnect, makes it easy to build and manage SGI Altix ICE systems. SGI follows the same design principle of simple and clean on the software side, delivering SGI Altix ICE as a fully integrated system that ships with the SGI
Tempo systems management tool, supplemented by the SGI
ProPack library, with features to further enhance application performance and software development. SGI Altix ICE sets a new standard for simplicity and ease of use in the world of scale-out computing. Designed with Customer Success in Mind
With a 25+ year track record as an HPC industry leader, SGI backs SGI Altix ICE with a complete range of
high performance server and storage solutions along with industry-leading professional services and support to enable customers to overcome the challenges of complex data-intensive workfl ows and accelerate breakthrough discoveries, innovation, and information transformation.