SGI provides scalable compute and graphics systems that can solve today's largest technical and creative problems.

SGI® systems are based on the Intel® Itanium® 2 CPU or the Intel® Dual/Quad-core Xeon® CPU and the Linux® operating system. These systems provide maximum flexibility for our customers.

Whether your development focus is on high performance computing (HPC), high performance business solutions, visualization or storage, SGI systems provide the following features that enable your applications to scale beyond traditional compute limits:

• 64-bit computing: expands the size of the problems that can be solved by providing the ability to handle larger scientific simulations, larger data cache, hold greater amount of data in memory.
• Global shared memory: eliminates data transfer overhead by providing a single memory address, allowing all processors to access all the data in the system's memory directly and efficiently.
• NUMAflex® architecture: provides balanced resources even for very large systems as CPUs and memory are added, enabling systems to efficiently scale well beyond the traditional bus-based architecture systems.
• Cluster computing solutions: applies technology innovation to cluster challenges with enhanced reliability and management to deliver flexibility, performance and value for a wide range of workflows, from the simplest, to the most complex.

As an aid in selecting a system or storage to meet your application development needs, please consult the following grids: