"The SGI Altix ICE platform delivers what Altair Engineering's HyperWorks and PBS GridWorks customers are looking for: leading performance on a highly scalable system with minimal space, energy and cooling demands on the data center. We are pleased SGI has selected Altair's PBS Professional on-demand computing software environment for deployment on these innovative new Altix ICE systems. PBS Professional allows customers to maximize the value of multi-core Intel® Xeon® processor systems while providing a simple and familiar user interface for workload management."

"Demand for widely scalable computing platforms is intensifying as engineering analysis data sets continue to grow in size. SGI's new Altix ICE platform addresses this need by closing the gap between processor speeds and the bandwidth offered by commodity interconnect networks. With its built-in DDR FiberChannel backplane and support for Dual-Core or Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, SGI Altix ICE provides an ideal platform for ANSYS®, ANSYS® CFX® and FLUENT® software, as well as other performance-intensive applications that are a core part of today's engineering analysis environment."

"HPC clusters are popular platforms for STAR-CD and STAR-CCM+, but putting them together has become an increasing headache. With the elegant design of the Altix ICE platform, SGI cleverly takes care of power, cooling and floor space issues, addresses cluster management with a pre-installed software stack, and introduces new levels of blade serviceability with a reduced-cable rack design. On top of all this, we anticipate tremendous CFD application performance from the Altix ICE platform's multi-core Intel Xeon processors and multiple DDR InfiniBand backbones."

"Computationally intensive applications like PAM-CRASH, PAM-STAMP, PAM-SHOCK have benefited greatly from the robust, highly scalable SGI Altix shared-memory server family. With the new SGI Altix ICE HPC solution, our customers now have the ideal platform for running PAM-CRASH solver in distributed memory parallel modes, combining unprecedented price/performance with the same robustness and scalability they’ve come to expect from SGI for today customer’s benefits."

"With applications ranging from early-stage drug discovery to decision support in a clinical setting, InforSense technology empowers scientists and clinicians to rapidly design and implement innovative analytical applications for effective decision making. That objective is made even easier with SGI Altix ICE, a high-throughput solution that is productive out of the box and still offers vast headroom for future expansion. We look forward to working closely with SGI to bring to market new solutions based on Altix ICE and InforSense technology."

"Intel's long history of successful collaboration with SGI has led to important HPC breakthroughs in scalable shared memory and compute density. SGI Altix ICE, built around the double-density Atoka board, is the latest of these achievements to deliver HPC solutions that make the most of standards-based, multi-core Intel processor technology."

"LSTC is excited to see SGI introduce a new platform that provides all the efficiencies of clusters without the associated compromises that some users associate with commodity clusters. With its high-bandwidth architecture and easily scalable design, SGI Altix ICE is an ideal fit for a range of LS-DYNA applications, including collision analysis. For customers requiring larger deployments but can't accommodate another large scale-out of traditional clusters, Altix ICE is an ideal choice."

"Global manufacturers increasingly depend on advanced enterprise simulation technologies such as MD Nastran and high performance computing to drive down costs, improve quality and bring products to market faster. The new SGI Altix ICE platform provides breakthrough scalability and price/performance allowing a growing base of engineers to run multidisciplinary simulations in a cost effective, reliable and timely manner."

"Time and again, customers look to SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server from Novell for a scalable, rock-solid environment that delivers the high-performance computing solution they need. With SGI's innovative new Altix ICE platform, they can do so once again. We're pleased to have SUSE Linux Enterprise Server be the first operating system available for SGI Altix ICE. Aside from its obvious benefits of density, scalability and performance, Altix ICE offers something that some cluster users had given up long ago: immediate productivity and easy manageability."

"As a company committed to simplifying the process of managing and monitoring clusters, Scali is thrilled to see the introduction of SGI Altix ICE. With this new blade platform, SGI has brought to market a system that uniquely combines the performance and management advantages of SMP systems with the cost economies of commodity-based cluster solutions. With the combination of SGI Altix ICE and Scali Manage software, scaling out to meet HPC needs no longer comes with a long list of compromises."

"AMBER and CHARMM have performed exceptionally well on SGI systems for years, due not only to powerful HPC solutions from SGI, but also to the company's close collaboration with us and the rest of the scientific community. We expect this commitment to continue with SGI Altix ICE, a system that aims to match superior performance with a new, easy-to-use architecture that allows scientists to focus on their research - not on system administration."

"Due to advances in computing power and analysis software, product manufacturers are seeking to add ever-increasing realism into their simulation models, including advanced materials and multiphysics. To gain the benefits of realistic simulation, they are accelerating their adoption of Abaqus Unified Finite Element Analysis (FEA), which enables them to leverage common models, data structure, and integrated solver technology to simulate performance attributes such as linear and nonlinear stress, noise and vibration, crashworthiness, coupled thermal-mechanical, structural acoustics, and fluid structure interaction. As their data and computational demands grow, solutions like the new SGI Altix ICE platform offer the scalability and performance density engineers need today and in the future. We look forward to seeing Altix ICE gain acceptance as a powerful platform for SIMULIA's Abaqus Unified FEA product suite and multiphysics solutions."

"SGI systems have been a favorite of scientists running NAMD for years. The SGI® Origin® and SGI Altix platforms have provided a stable and reliable environment for high productivity without sacrificing performance. The new SGI Altix ICE platform continues this tradition with a rapidly deployed, easily administered solution backed by a company that understands the needs of HPC customers."

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