Configurations

 
Compute Blades
Price/Performance option: Performance option:
One or two Intel® Xeon® Processors One or two Intel® Xeon® Processors
Embedded I/O:
  • Dual 4x DDR InfiniBand ports
  • Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports
Memory:
  • Supports up to 32GB per blade
  • 8 fully buffered memory DIMM slots per blade
  • 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB 667MHz DIMMs
Blade Enclosures ICE 8200 ICE 8200LX ICE 8200EX
  • Two 4x DDR IB switch blades, two planes
  • Hypercube topology
  • 16 Price/Performance blades
  • One 4x DDR IB switch blade, one high performing plane
  • Hypercube or CBB Fat Tree topology
  • 16 Performance blades
  • Four 4x DDR IB switch blades, two high performing planes
  • Hypercube or CBB Fat Tree topology
  • 16 Performance blades
  • Dedicated Gigabit Ethernet administrative network, chassis management controller
Storage
  • Network Attached Storage Solutions (NAS):
    • SGI® InfiniteStorage NEXIS 9000: High performance NFS/RDMA
  • Native InfiniBand SAN Solutions:
    • SGI InfiniteStorage 4500
    • SGI InfiniteStorage 6700
    • SGI InfiniteStorgae 10000
Rack
  • 42U (30"W x 40"D)
  • Each rack supports up to 4 blade enclosures, each with 16 2-socket blades, for up to 128 sockets and 512 cores per rack
  • Standard 19" racks also supported, each with up to 2 Blade Enclosures and 10U of extra space for storage, Cooling Options: Air (standard) or water (optional)
Operating Systems
  • SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server
  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (Available summer 2008)
Software Solution Stack
  • Performance Optimization: SGI ProPack™ for Linux® 5
  • System Management Software: SGI Tempo System Manager or Scali Manage
  • Job Scheduling/ Workload Management: Altair® PBS Professional™
  • Fabric Manager: SGI Infi niband Fabric Manager
  • Subnet Manager: SGI Subnet Manager