| Feature |
Benefit |
| World-leading Altix® Architecture with NUMAflex® |
| Cost-effective |
Industry-leading price/performance in an SGI Altix caliber system, available at under $9,000 (USLP). |
| Global Shared Memory |
Dramatically shorten time to solution by processing data sets and large analytic models using shared memory that scales to 128GB per system. |
| High Bandwidth, Low Latency |
Increase productivity by achieving maximum performance with SGI NUMAflex interconnect technology, with industry-leading bandwidth of 6.4GB/second. |
| Industry standard components |
Leverage innovation with industry and open standards components—Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and choice of Linux® operating system. |
| Linux OS |
Choice of Novell SUSE® LINUX® Enterprise Server 9 or Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 4.0. |
| SGI ProPack™ |
Option available with Novell® SUSE® LINUX Enterprise Server to turbo-charge HPC applications for maximum performance. |
| Seamless Growth Path |
Easily scale Altix 330 from 1 to 16 processors and up to 128GB of memory. |
| Flexible Configuration |
Develop/deploy on SGI Altix 330 server, and easily extend base configuration,
or transition to SGI Altix 350, SGI Altix 1350, and/or SGI Altix 3700 systems as requirements change. |
| Advanced Storage Options |
Easily extend data storage with workgroup JBOD and RAID storage, plus support for the latest SAS drive technology. |
