Dual socket compute blades supporting dual-core Intel® Itanium® 2 processors code-named Montecito, plus I/O and memory expansion graphics and SGI® RASC™ blades

• Unlimited flexibility and fine-grained control over system configuration
• Excellent performance density and power efficiency
• Optimize for any workload

Socket compatible with future Intel Itanium 2 processors, including dual core CPU's code-named Montecito and Montvale

• Investment protection
• Expand on demand
• Easily upgrade or service individual components

Scales to 38 socket or 76 core system size and as much as 456GB globally addressable memory

• Superior sustained performance for any programming model or workload
• Simplified programming
• Easy, low-cost administration

• 6.4 GB/s bandwidth, <1 microsecond latency
• SGI Message Passing Toolkit

• Industry-leading cluster application efficiency to hundreds of processors or more
• Scale out to hundreds or thousands of CPU cores while retaining global memory address

• Fault prevention, detection, recovery
• Special focus on memory RAS
• Serviceability of blades

• Linux® performance and choice without compromised reliability
• Maximum uptime, higher utilization

• Leading price-performance versus high-end RISC/Unix servers
• SGI-level quality at affordable cost

SGI supplied and supported

• Easier system bring-up
• One-stop support