SGI® Altix® 1330 Cluster delivers SGI class performance and quality in a cost-effective Intel® Itanium® 2 cluster.
| Feature |
Benefit |
| Scalable Nodes |
Reduce the overall cost of solution, with Altix 1330 nodes that scale to 16 processors and 128GB memory—dramatically decreasing the cost of compute nodes, software license, interconnect fabric, and administration. |
| Complete Cluster Solution |
Achieve immediate productivity, with a fully integrated cluster solution that includes Altix 1330 cluster nodes, Platform Manager, SGIconsole™ remote multiserver management system and choice of InfiniBand (with VoltaireVision™ Interconnect Manager), Gigabit Ethernet or Quadrics® high-speed interconnect. |
| High Performance Scale-up/Scale-out |
Achieve maximum performance with SGI world-leading 6.4GB/second NUMAflex interconnect technology on each Altix 1330 node. In scale-out configurations, Altix 1330 supports up to eight InfiniBand Host channel Adapters (HCA) on each compute node for unparalleled performance and deployment flexibility. |
| Advanced Linux Cluster Platform |
Leverage the best of open systems, with a choice of Red Hat® EL 4 or SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 9, and the option of turbo-charging HPC applications with SGI ProPack™ on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. |
| Industry-leading HPC Platform |
Built on the industry's leading high-performance, 64-bit platform: Intel Itanium 2. |
| Seamless Growth Path |
Easily scale Altix 1330 nodes from 1P to 16P without incurring any additional expense to switch systems or chassis. |
| Single Source Support |
Resolve all hardware and system issues with a single vendor: SGI. |
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