SGI® Altix® 350

image of an SGI Altix 350 SGI Altix 350 is a powerhouse mid-range server that offers SGI's industry-leading Altix® architecture at a breakthrough price point.
Altix 350 delivers more real-world performance than any other system in its class, and provides breakthrough capabilities for technical database, departmental server and throughput cluster applications.

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Raise the Bar on Cost-Effectiveness

  • Modular architecture that can scale processors, memory, and I/O resources independently
  • Unified Linux platform that scales seamlessly from 1 to 32 processors to eliminate costly "fork-lift" system upgrades
  • Extensible system design enables you to "start small" and grow seamlessly to meeting changing compute and business requirements

Discover Breakthrough Performance

  • Advanced design that scales to 32 processors and 384GB of memory per system
  • High-performance, shared-memory SGI® NUMAlink® interconnect for unparalleled I/O at 6.4GB/second
  • Efficiently supports complex, mixed workloads easily meeting dynamic resource requirements

Maximize Investment Protection with Open Standards

  • Industry-leading HPC platform with Intel® Itanium® 2 processors
  • Choice of SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server or Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Advanced Server (up to 32 CPU cores and 128GB memory)
  • Turbo-charge HPC application performance with SGI ProPack™

Features and Benefits

Feature Benefit
Expand on Demand Seamlessly and independently scale system resources (CPU, I/O, and memory) to meet current and changing compute needs.
Global Shared Memory Dramatically shorten time to solution by processing data sets and large analytic models using a single, system-wide, shared memory that scales to 384GB per system.
High Bandwidth, Low Latency Increase productivity by achieving maximum performance on all your data with SGI world-leading 6.4GB/second interconnect technology.
Open and Industry standards components Leverage innovation with industry and open standards components - Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and Linux® operating system.
SGI ProPack™ Turbo-charge HPC applications for maximum performance.
Seamless Growth Path Easily scale Altix 350 from 1P to 32P without incurring any additional expense to change-out systems.
Single Source Support Resolve all hardware and system issues with a single vendor: SGI.