Companies today are dealing with increasingly difficult compute problems, with ever-growing amounts of data to manage and process, and pressure to deliver results in record time. One way to attack this critical problem is to build large clusters. But this approach often results in unforeseen and unmanageable expenses for administration, space, and power. The SGI Altix ICE integrated blade cluster was designed with these large problems in mind, and delivers a unique blend of "performance" and "productivity". This innovative new platform from SGI raises the HPC bar, easily scaling to meet virtually any processing requirements without compromise on ease of use, manageability, or price/performance. SGI Altix ICE 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 1000s of nodes.
- Performance-dense architecture combines an innovative new board design, with the latest and most powerful Dual-Core and Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors to deliver up to 64 blade severs per rack , providing up to 512 processing cores in a single 42U rack.
- Off-blade storage and hierarchical management system for highly efficient scalability and manageability at node, rack unit (IRU), rack, or system.
Delivers Unsurpassed Value and Efficiency
- Advanced reliability architecture with redundant power and fans, diskless blades, and hot-swappable blades.
- SGI innovation in power/cooling, incorporates field proven SGI® Altix® power/cooling architecture that delivers >75% rack power efficiency, and water-cooled doors (optional).
- Flexible configuration options enables customer 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.
- Industry standards, delivered with the SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server operating system and a comprehensive cluster solution stack that includes the SGI® Tempo management software for quick deployment and easy management.
- Backed 100% by SGI World-class Customer Service organization, with unmatched track record for successfully building, deploying, and supporting the world's most complex HPC systems.
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