The SGI Altix 3000 Global Shared-Memory Architecture
White Papers 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 communication infrastructure.
[April 2, 2004, 0:04]
Linux Scalability For The Altix 3000: A Software Environment For HPC Applications
White Papers 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, scalability enhancements...
[April 2, 2004, 0:04]
A Framework For Evaluating High Performance Computation Solutions: Small-node Clusters And The SGI Altix 3000
White Papers 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, and Linux with large-scale...
[April 2, 2004, 0:04]
Scaling Linux To The Extreme: From 64 To 512 Processors
White Papers 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. Altix now supports up to 256 processors in a single Linux...
[May 18, 2007, 1:00]
SGI Has Powerful Linux System In Pipeline
News SGI, which sells a 64-processor Altix 3000 computer based on the open-source operating system, will release a 128-processor version in spring 2004, the company said on Tuesday. Results of customer tests of the more-powerful Altix 3000 will be...
[August 7, 2003, 11:40]
SGI Plans Linux Renaissance
News Silicon Graphics (SGI) will start showing off the Altix 4000 Monday, the second generation of the company's technical computing machines based on Itanium processors that run on Linux. The high-performance systems will accommodate as many as 512...
[November 14, 2005, 8:15]
SGI Releases Mid-range Linux Server
News Silicon Graphics on Monday brought its Linux servers into the mid-range, unveiling the Altix 350 model that will bring the Itanium-based line into the sub-£10,000 price bracket. The maker of high-end computers and storage systems introduced its...
[January 12, 2004, 16:15]
SGI Begins High-end Linux Push
News The system -- which had been code-named SN2 and now is called the Altix 3000 series -- is geared for customers who need to make heavy-duty numerical calculations such as car-crash analysis or aircraft aerodynamics.
[January 7, 2003, 8:24]
Meeting The High-performance Demands Of Industrial Computing
White Papers 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 to FEA (Finite Element...
[November 8, 2004, 23:00]
SGI Slashes Another 600 Jobs
News SGI hopes to grow by selling its new Onyx4 and Tezro visualisation systems based on the company's MIPS processors and Irix operating system, its Altix 3000 line based on Intel Itanium processors and the Linux operating system, and its storage...
[August 28, 2003, 10:10]
Silicon Graphics To Announce Next-gen Linux Server
News The company has shipped 800 Altix systems with a total of 30,000 processors, Bishop said. The system is the next generation of the Altix 3000 family that SGI launched in 2003 for high-performance computing tasks.
[October 27, 2004, 9:20]
SGI's Midrange Unix Server Gets An Update
News In January, the company debuted its Altix 3000 system with 64 Intel Itanium 2 processors that runs Linux. SGI announced on Tuesday its Origin 350 Unix server, a descendant of the two-year-old Origin 300 that has more new processors, additional...
[April 16, 2003, 10:47]
