SGI® Altix® Clusters

image of an SGI Altix Cluster The SGI® Altix® 1330 cluster delivers SGI's award-winning Altix® architecture in a fully-integrated cluster solution. SGI Altix 1330 provides customers with the quality and performance that they've come to expect from SGI —in a cost-effective cluster platform. Altix 1330 leverages SGI's NUMAflex® architecture to uniquely provide a cluster solution that can support the most demanding application mix in a multi-user environment, with unsurpassed scalability in all dimensions.

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Achieve world-class performance at a cost-effective price

  • Modular architecture that can independently scale processors, memory, and I/O resources on the node for ultimate in system right-sizing and resource efficiency.
  • Highly scalable nodes that can handle more real work with fewer systems, dramatically reduces the overall cost of solution by decreasing requirements for interconnect fabric, software licenses, and administration.
  • Industry-standard architecture, built on Linux® operating systems and Intel Itanium 2 processors, for the best performance and enhanced investment protection.

Discover Breakthrough Productivity

  • Advanced system design leverages the best of large node capability PLUS cluster capacity—with nodes that can scale to 16 processors and 128GB of memory.
  • High-performance, shared-memory SGI® NUMAlink® interconnect technology for unparalleled I/O at 6.4GB/second on each Altix cluster node virtually eliminates I/O bottlenecks.
  • Efficiently supports complex, mixed workloads and dynamic resource requirements—eliminating the need to expend precious resource in decomposing or parallelizing code.

Designed with ease of administration in mind

  • Fully integrated cluster solution that includes the industry's leading cluster, interconnect and system management tools from SGI, Voltaire and Scali.
  • Large node Altix 1330 clusters result in fewer systems to deploy, manage and provision.
  • Comprehensive support for Altix 1330 hardware and system software provided by SGI.

Features and Benefits

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.