SGI® ICE 8400

image of an SGI ICE 8400 Companies today are dealing with increasingly difficult business problems, with ever-growing amounts of data to manage and process, and pressure to deliver results in record time. Most attack this critical problem by expanding IT infrastructure. But this "bigger faster" approach often comes with unforeseen administration and facilities costs and lower than expected throughput due to data bottlenecks. The SGI ICE 8400 integrated blade cluster was designed for today's data intensive problems and thus avoids these pitfalls. This innovative platform from SGI raises the efficiency bar, easily scaling to meet virtually any processing requirements without compromising ease of use, manageability or price/performance. SGI ICE 8400 delivers unsurpassed customer value, with breakthrough density, efficiency, reliability and manageability.

Built with High Performance Computing (HPC) in Mind

  • Cable-free blade enclosures, integrated switches, and a high-performance interconnect architecture easily scale to thousands of nodes.
  • Performance-dense architecture combines an innovative new board design, with the latest and most powerful Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors or AMD Opteron™ 6200 series processors to deliver up to 64 blades per rack, totaling up to 1536 processing cores in a single 42U rack.

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 the field-proven SGI ICE 8400 power/cooling architecture that delivers leading rack-level power efficiency, with optional water-cooled doors.
  • Flexible configuration options enable customers 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 SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server operating system or Red Hat® Enterprise Linux, and a comprehensive cluster solution stack that includes the SGI® Management Suite system 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 technical computing systems.

Features and Benefits

Feature Benefit
SGI "Power Up & Go" Design Immediate productivity with up to 14.1 teraflops per rack to drive user applications.
Advanced Blade Enclosure Design Reduced cost and complexity and simplified scalability, with cable-free blade enclosures and switchless 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 5600 and AMD Opteron™ 6100 series processors both based on PCI-E 2.0 capable QDR 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® Management Suite 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 an available fully integrated software solution stack that includes SGI® Foundation Software, SGI Performance Suite and Altair® PBS Professional™ workload manager.
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 or Red Hat® Enterprise Linux. Select from an extensive portfolio of 32- and 64-bit applications, with the assurance of industry-leading performance and reliability.