SGI NUMAflex is the third-generation shared-memory system architecture that is the basis of SGI® HPC servers and supercomputers. NUMAflex is specifically engineered to provide technical professionals with superior performance and scalability in a design that is easy to deploy, program, and manage.

NUMAflex enables you to achieve your technical breakthroughs faster by delivering scalable, low-latency memory access and efficient resource management with your choice of programming model and operating environment. This combination of capability and deployability makes NUMAflex the ideal architectural solution for high-productivity computing.

• System scalability with low-latency memory access--The NUMAflex architecture incorporates a low-latency, high-bandwidth interconnect that is designed to maintain performance as it scales, allowing efficient access to local and remote memory without the bottlenecks associated with switches, backplanes, and other commodity interconnect technologies.

• Efficient resource management--The NUMAflex architecture is designed to run complex models frequently, and because the entire memory space is shared, large models fit into memory with no programming model restrictions. Rather than waiting for all of the processors to complete their assigned tasks, the system dynamically reassigns resources to more complex areas, resulting in faster time to solution.

• Ease of deployment--The NUMAflex architecture is easy and cost-effective to scale and deploy. NUMAflex offers an unrivaled choice of operating environments, processors, and components, spanning the gap between proprietary and standard solutions by supporting MIPS® or Intel® processors, PCI or XIO™ interconnect schemes, and both the IRIX® and Linux® operating systems. This allows you to customize the system to your high-productivity computing needs and easily scale the system over time as your performance requirements evolve.