SGI® Altix® ICE


Configurations

 
Compute Blades
IP-83 IP-85 IP-95
Processors Processors Processors
Memory
  • 8 fully buffered memory DIMM slots per blade
  • 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB 800MHz DIMMs
Memory
  • 16 fully buffered memory DIMM slots per blade
  • 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB 800MHz DIMMs
  • Low profile PCIE x16 networking slot
Memory
  • 12 DDR3 DIMM slots per blade
  • 2GB, 4GB, 8GB 1333MHz DIMMs
Blade Enclosures
ICE 8200LX ICE 8200EX
  • Two 20Gb/s or 40Gb/s DDR IB switch blades, one high performing plane
  • Standard or Enhanced Hypercube, Fat Tree topology
  • 16 Performance blades
  • Four 20Gb/s or 40Gb/s IB switch blades, one high performing plane
  • Standard or Enhanced Hypercube, Fat Tree topology
  • 16 Performance blades
  • Dedicated Gigabit Ethernet administrative network, chassis management controller
Storage

Network Attached Storage Solutions (NAS): High-performance IPoIB

  • SGI® InfiniteStorage NEXIS 9000
  • SGI® InfiniteStorage NEXIS 7000
  • SGI® InfiniteStorage NEXIS 2000
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 10 or 11
  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
Software Solution Stack
  • Optimized drivers and system monitoring: SGI Foundation Software 1
  • Optimized system and application performance: SGI ProPack™ 6 for Linux®
  • Cluster Management Software: SGI® Tempo or Platform™ Manager
  • Job Scheduling/ Workload Management: Altair® PBS Professional™
  • Fabric Manager: SGI InfiniBand Fabric Manager with OpenSM
  • InfiniBand Host Stack: SGI OFED 1.4