| Feature |
Benefit |
| SGI "Power Up & Go" Design |
Immediate productivity, in systems that deliver 6 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 |
Top performance density for optimal data center space utilization. Based on ultra-dense SGI/Intel designed board and Dual- or Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processors. Blade options include the powerful Intel Xeon 5400 series processor, with ultra-fast Front-side Bus, PCIe Gen2 connectivity to InfiniBand. |
| SGI Patented Power Design |
Enhanced power efficiency for reduced overall cost of deployment, with +75% power efficiency at rack level. |
| SGI Water Chilled Doors |
Increased reliability, maintains optimal operational environmental temperature to reduce overheating and potential system outage. |
| 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 or Platform™ Scali Manage™ 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. |
