A powerful and versatile HPC platform, the Altix 3700 runs standard Linux and delivers breakthrough performance. The newest generation of SGI's high-end servers, Altix 3700 Bx2 continues to win awards for its performance, ease of use and breakthrough capabilities. Its growth is fast outpacing the industry. Altix 3700 also leverages industry standard components to offer the most value in high end computing, starting at around $100,000.
Altix 3700 is:
The most versatile platform to handle large HPC workloads
- Scale up or scale out on one platform—up to 512P in one system
- Run small to large jobs in any programming model
- Highly efficient development and administration environment
The power behind breakthroughs in science and engineering
- Break new barriers with up to 24 TB of addressable memory
- Scale even stubborn applications for real sustained performance
- Extraordinary "Peer I/O" capability: direct high speed link to memory
The only supercomputing solution fully devoted to Industry standards, including Linux® and Linux only
Scaling to 512 Itanium 2 processors in a single node, Altix 3700 Bx2 is SGI's newest and most powerful Linux
solution for high performance computing. Altix 3700 Bx2 leverages the powerful
SGI® NUMAflex® global shared-memory architecture to derive maximum application
performance from new high-density CPU bricks. The latest configuration also doubles available bandwidth between
Altix bricks with
SGI's NUMAlink™ 4 interconnect technology—the industry's
fastest at 6.4GB/sec and less than 1 microsecond MPI latency. Each node in an Altix 3700 system can contain 16 to
512 processors, up to 6 terabytes of
global shared memory, and 48 XIO™ buses; and delivers over 3 gigabytes
per second of sustained I/O bandwidth.
