SGI® Altix® 330

image of an SGI Altix 330 SGI Altix 330 is an entry-level mid-range server that offers SGI Altix capabilities at a new breakthrough price point. The combination of SGI's advanced Altix architecture and entry-level pricing results in industry-leading price/performance that delivers exceptional value.

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Discover Breakthrough Capabilities at an Entry-level Price

  • SGI Altix advanced features and capabilities
  • Ultra-dense 1U form factor delivers rack-optimized density without sacrificing scalability
  • Extensible system design enables you to "start small" and easily grow to meet changing compute and business requirements

Unleash Productivity with Industry-leading HPC Application Performance

  • Ample headroom for growth, scales to 16 processors and 128GB of memory per system
  • High-performance, shared-memory SGI® NUMAlink® interconnect for unparalleled I/O at 6.4GB/second
  • Proven performance superiority on HPC industry applications and mixed HPC workloads

Maximize Investment Protection with Open Standards

  • Powerful combination of Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and Linux® operating system
  • Choice of SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server or Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Advanced Server (up to 16 processors and 128GB memory per system)
  • Turbo-charged HPC application performance on Novell® SUSE® Enterprise LINUX server with SGI ProPack™

Features and Benefits

Feature Benefit
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.