Configurations

Enabling Power Users. Delivering ROI and Room to Grow. Transforming Team Productivity. Tackling Extreme Problems
The Silicon Graphics Prism® family comes in three basic configurations— power, team, and extreme. Each configuration provides fine-grain scalability so that you can create the perfect balance of computational, bandwidth, and rendering power to meet your requirements. And as your needs change, modules can be easily added to your existing system to provide you more visualization power in the future.
 
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Silicon Graphics Prism in the power configuration Delivering ROI and Room to Grow
The Silicon Graphics Prism power configuration is ideally designed for small teams. Whether supporting a number of concurrent users or dedicated to a single large problem, the power configuration offers high return on investment by enabling the ability to blaze through the most demanding data sets. Delivering 20M pixels of highly interactive graphics, Silicon Graphics Prism has enough power to interactively drive two ultrahigh-resolution 10M pixel LCD displays and offers the ability to scale visualization, compute, and memory to larger configurations as your organization grows.
 
Image of the Silicon Graphics Prism in the team configuration Transforming Team Productivity
Today's workflow, data sets, and distributed teams provide tremendous challenges to all organizations. The Silicon Graphics Prism team configuration brings the performance, power, and production capability of large-scale SGI® Reality Center® facilities to small team rooms. Team productivity is transformed by the ability to load data sets at multi-gigabytes-per-second rates, interact with 32GB of data in memory, and scale graphics capability seamlessly, all in a deskside form factor.
 
Image of the Silicon Graphics Prism in the extreme configuration Tackling Extreme Problems
The Silicon Graphics Prism extreme configuration is designed to enable leaders in their fields to understand the world's most demanding problems. Breakthroughs and discoveries are possible with Silicon Graphics Prism system's ability to rapidly digest and visualize multi-terabyte data sets, transforming insurmountable problems into powerful assets. Imagine groundbreaking insights that can come from driving holographic displays and interactively roaming through terascale computational data sets.


  Power Level Team Level Extreme Level
  Small Teams Team Rooms, Collaboration Mission Critical, Transformational
Technical Specifications
Processors 2-8 Intel Itanium 2 CPUs 8-16 Intel Itanium 2 CPUs 16-256 Intel Itanium 2 CPUs
Graphics pipes 2-4 ATI FireGL GPUs 4-8 ATI FireGL GPUs 4-16 ATI FireGL GPUs
Memory Up to 96GB Up to 192GB Up to 3.0TB
I/O expansion Up to 16 PCI/PCI-X slots (13 available) Up to 28 PCI/PCI-X slots (25 available) Up to 96 PCI/PCI-X slots (91 available)
Form factor 19" rack mount or 17U short 19" rack 19" rack mount or 39U tall 19" rack 19" rack mount or multiple 39U tall 19" rack
Height (each U is 1.75 inches) 4U - 8U 8U - 20U 23U +
Input Voltage per module 120/240 VAC auto-sensing worldwide power supply 120/240 VAC auto-sensing worldwide power supply 120/240 VAC auto-sensing worldwide power supply and 48VDC with Power Bay
System Power (unracked) 2000 W max. 4500 W max. Varies by Configuration
System Heat dissipation (unracked) 6500 BTU/hr max. 14500 BTU/hr max. Varies by Configuration

For more specifications, please see the datasheet (PDF 791K)