SGI® Altix® ICE 8200

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Built with High Performance Computing (HPC) in Mind

  • Cable-free blade enclosures, integrated switches, and a high-performance interconnect architecture easily scale to 1000s of nodes.
  • Performance-dense architecture combines an innovative new board design, with the latest and most powerful Intel® Xeon® processors to deliver up to 64 blade severs per rack, providing up to 768 processing cores in a single 42U rack.
  • Off-blade storage and hierarchical management system for highly efficient scalability and manageability at node, rack unit (IRU), rack, or system.

Datasheet for Altix ICE 8200 (PDF 523K)

Configurations for Altix ICE 8200

Delivers Unsurpassed Value and Efficiency

  • Advanced Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) features, including redundant power supplies, redundant cooling fans and hot-swappable blades.
  • SGI innovation in power/cooling, incorporates field proven SGI® Altix® power/cooling architecture that delivers leading rack-level power efficiency, and water-cooled doors (optional).
  • Flexible configuration options enables customer to optimize for performance or cost, with customer value that scales with system size.

Drives Immediate Productivity - Power Up & Go!!!

  • SGI "Power Up & Go" design, with systems that are fully integrated and tested in the factory, enabling scalable cluster solutions in hours, not weeks.
  • Based on industry standards, delivered with the SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server operating system and a comprehensive cluster solution stack that includes the SGI® Tempo management software for quick deployment and easy management.
  • Backed 100% by SGI's world-class services organization, with an unmatched track record for successfully building, deploying, and supporting the world's most complex HPC systems.

Features and Benefits

Feature Benefit
SGI "Power Up & Go" Design Immediate productivity with up to 9.0 teraflops per rack to drive user applications.
Advanced Blade Enclosure Design Reduced cost and complexity and simplified scalability, with cable-free blade enclosures and switch less topology. Optimize for maximum performance or ultra cost efficiency (price/performance).
Flexible Packaging Leading value and Return on Investment (ROI), with ability to choose from blades and blade enclosures and optimize for raw performance or lowest possible cost.
HPC Optimized Compute Blades Leading performance density for optimal data center space utilization. Blade options include support for the powerful Intel Xeon 5500 and 5600 series processors and PCI-E 2.0 based InfiniBand connectivity.
SGI Patented Power Design Enhanced power efficiency for reduced overall cost of deployment.
SGI Water Chilled Doors Increased reliability by maintaining an optimal operational environmental temperature, preventing overheating that could otherwise lead to system outages.
SGI® Tempo Management Tool Simplified scalability and easier management, based on a Hierarchical Management Framework (HMF) that provides the ability to manage, monitor and provision at blade, blade enclosure, rack, and system level. Efficiently scales to thousands of nodes.
Comprehensive Solution Immediate productivity, with a fully integrated software solution stack that includes SGI® Tempo management tools, SGI ProPack™ for Linux® 5, Altair® PBS Professional™ workload manager, SGI Infiniband fabric and subnet managers.
Industry-standards Based Fully satisfies IT OS, applications, and security compliancy requirements, and delivers all of the benefits of open industry-standard, with SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server. Select from an extensive portfolio of 32- and 64-bit applications, with the assurance of industry-leading performance and reliability.