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RSS altixExploring High Bandwidth Filesystems on Large Systems
White Paper This paper presents the results of an investigation conducted by SGI into streaming filesystem throughput on the Altix platform with a high bandwidth disk subsystem. The paper starts by describing some of the background... [08 Jul 2008]
The SGI Altix 3000 Global Shared-Memory Architecture
White Paper This paper describes the global shared memory architecture and benefits of the SGI Altix 3000 family of servers and super-clusters. It describes the current implementation of the Altix 3000 system... [03 Jul 2008]
Roadrunner runs away with supercomputing prize
News Rounding out the top 10 is Sun Microsystem's Ranger at number four, Cray's Jaguar at number five, SGI's Encanto at number seven, and SGI's Altix at number 10. Roadrunner has topped the Top500 supercomputers released... [19 Jun 2008]
SGI Altix: Enhanced Return on Investment for the Datacenter
White Paper SGI Altix servers and clusters eliminate bottlenecks, enable real-time access to complex data sets, and scale with customer needs. Altix provides a unique combination of an open environment, a powerful... [26 Apr 2008]
SGI Altix: Enhanced Return on Investment for the Datacenter
SGI Altix servers and clusters eliminate bottlenecks, enable real-time access to complex data sets, and scale with customer needs. Altix provides a unique combination of an open environment, a powerful... [26 Apr 2008]
Leibniz Computing Center Achieves 10x Faster Supercomputer Data Services With NetApp Solution
White Paper The challenge was to implement a storage solution to deliver project file services in a 4,096-CPU SGI Altix 4700 supercomputing environment. The Leibniz Computing Center provides IT services for Munich universities and... [20 Jul 2007]
Scaling Linux to the Extreme: From 64 to 512 Processors
White Paper SGI announced the SGI Altix 3000 family of servers. As announced, the SGI Altix 3000 system supported up to 64 Intel Itanium 2 processors and 512 GB of main memory in a single Linux image.... [18 May 2007]
Intel Technology Powers Cutting-Edge Research for Leading Scientists at Erlangen University
White Paper Local systems integrator, transtec, equipped the university with a server cluster running 300 Intel Xeon processors to support life sciences and physics research, and SGI delivered Altix 3700 and 330 servers powered by a... [25 Apr 2007]
Novell Case Study: Leibniz Computing Centre
White Paper The Leibniz Rechenzentrum (Leibniz Computing Centre) operates a supercomputer for scientific research, based on the SGI Altix 4700 server platform and running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Founded in 1962, the Leibniz... [13 Apr 2007]
Comparing Linux Clusters for the Community Climate System Model
White Paper Specifically, the authors examine the execution time and scalability of the Community Atmospheric Model (CAM) and the Parallel Ocean Program (POP) on Linux clusters with Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors, using Dolphin, Myrinet, and... [01 Apr 2007]
OpenEye Scientific Software: Drug Discovery - The Best in Class Tools for Competitive Advantage
White Paper Find out why these programs running on the SGI Altix platform with Intel Itanium 2 processors provide for a faster analysis of molecular structures and their conformers than you can expect with other computer-aided drug... [15 Feb 2005]
The ANSYS Big Memory Breakthrough on the Itanium® 2-Based SGI® Altix® High-Performance Computing Platform
White Paper For engineers who work with CAE models of complex, detailed assemblies, productivity has been limited by computing architectures that cannot hold and process large models in a timely way. This white paper reviews how ANSYS, Intel, and... [09 Nov 2004]
Meeting the High-performance Demands of Industrial Computing
White Paper While the cost of previous computing solutions, based on specialized processors and proprietary operating systems, have escalated, the SGI® Altix 3000 server platform provides a cost-effective, high-performance solution... [09 Nov 2004]
A Framework for Evaluating High Performance Computation Solutions: Small-node Clusters and the SGI Altix 3000
White Paper To illustrate this framework two specific architectural approaches are considered: small-node clusters with commodity interconnects, and the SGI Altix, a next-generation cluster combining commodity processors, memory,... [02 Apr 2004]
Linux Scalability for the Altix 3000: A Software Environment for HPC Applications
White Paper The SGI Altix system was designed to bring the performance advantages of robust shared-memory architecture into an industry-standard, open-source Linux environment. The purpose of this paper is to describe the features,... [02 Apr 2004]
