Configurations

  SGI Altix XE250 SGI Altix XE310 SGI Altix XE320
Node Type Head or compute Compute (2 nodes per XE310)* Compute (2 nodes per XE320)*
Processors Up to two Dual-Core or Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processors, 5200 or 5400 Series

  • Front Side Bus: 1600 or 1333 MHz
  • L2 Cache: 6MB for 5200 series, 12MB for 5400 series
 Up to four Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processors, 5400 Series (2 per node)

  • Front Side Bus: 1333 MHz
  • L2 Cache: 12MB
 Up to four Dual-Core or Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processors, 5100, 5200, 5300 or 5400 series (2 per node)
  • Front Side Bus: 1600 or 1333 MHz
  • L2 Cache: 6MB for 5200 series, 12MB for 5400 series
Memory
  • 64 GB DDR2 800 or 667 MHz FBDIMM memory
  • Supports memory sparing and mirroring
  • 64 GB DDR2 800 or 667 MHz FBDIMM memory (32GB per node)
  • Supports memory sparing and mirroring
PCI Slots
  • 2 x PCIe x8 gen 2
  • 1 x PCIe x8 gen 1
  • 1 x PCIe x4 gen 1
  • 1 x PCI-x 133/100
  • 2 x PCIe x8
    (1 per node)
  • 2 x PCIe x16
    (1 per node)
Integrated I/O
  • 2 x Gigabit Ethernet
  • 2 x COM port
  • 2 x VGA ports
  • 4 x USB ports
  • 2 x PS/2 ports
  • 2 x InfiniBand port (1 per node), optional
  • 2 x COM port (1 per node)
  • 2 x VGA (1 per node)
  • 4 x Gigabit Ethernet (2 per node)
  • 4 x USB ports (2 per node)
  • 2 x 4 mini SAS ports (1 per node) with SAS/RAID option
Internal Storage
  • Eight SATA/SAS drive bays
    • 3.5" SATA drive - 250GB, 500GB, 750GB
    • 3.5" SAS drive - 73GB, 143GB, 300GB
    • 1 x DVD-RW drive
  • RAID 0, 1, 5, or 10
  • Four SATA drive bays (2 per node)
    • 3.5" SATA drive - 250GB, 500GB, 750GB
  • Four SAS drives available via optional PCIe card (2 per node)
    • 3.5" SAS drive - 73GB, 143GB,
  • Optional RAID 0, 1
System Software
  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
  • SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server
  • Microsoft® Windows® Compute Cluster Server 2003 *
  • Microsoft ® Windows® Server™ 2003 Standard x64 Edition
  • Microsoft® Windows® Server™ 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition
  • SGI® ProPack™ for Linux®
Linux Software Environment
  • Cluster Management Software: Platform Manager
  • Job Scheduling/ Workload Management: Altair® PBS Professional™
  • Fabric Management: SGI InfiniBand Fabric Management (based on OFED) or Voltaire GridStack (on SLES 9 systems)
  • Filesystem: XFS™ 64-bit journaled filesystem (avail. on SUSE Linux OS), CXFS™ shared filesystem for SANs
  • Network File System: Samba, NFS

Development Tools:

  • Programming Languages: Intel C++ Compiler, GNU GCC, Intel Fortran Compiler (Fortran95), Absoft Fortran Compiler, GNU GNAT, AdaCore GNAT Pro, Java2 1.4.2, BEA JRockit
  • Debuggers: Intel Debugger (idb) included w/Intel compilers, GNU gdb, TotalView Technologies TotalView Debugger, TotalView Technologies MemoryScape, Intel Thread Checker
  • Libraries: Intel Math Kernel Library, Intel Integrated Performance Primitives, Intel Threading Building Blocks
  • Parallel Programming: SGI Message Passing Toolkit, Intel MPI Library, MVAPICH-2, OpenMPI, Voltaire MPI in Voltaire IBHost and Voltaire GridStack, Scali MPI Connect, OpenMP included w/Intel compilers, Intel Cluster OpenMP, Intel Trace Analyzer & Collector, TotalView Technologies TotalView Debugger, Allinea DDT
  • Performance Analysis: Intel VTune Performance Analyzer, Intel Trace Analyzer & Collector
Microsoft WCCS Software Environment *
  • Microsoft Active Directory for authentication and security setup
  • Microsoft Remote Installation Services for remote node installation
  • Microsoft Systems Management Server for managing node updates
  • Microsoft Operations Manager for system and job management
  • Microsoft Management Console for snap-in system tools
  • Voltaire Gridstack for Interconnect Fabric Management

Development Tools:

  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
  • Platform LSF
  • Portland Group parallel and scalar Fortran, C, and C++ compilers and tools
  • Absoft High Performance Computing Software Development Kit Intel Compilers & Tools for Microsoft Windows

* Also available in a single node configuration.


  SGI Altix XE Clusters
Processors Dual-Core and Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processors
Number of processors 2 to 8 cores per node
Cluster Nodes Altix XE1200: Altix XE250 compute and head nodes
Altix XE1300: Altix XE310 or Altix XE320 compute nodes, Altix XE250 head nodes
Cluster Interconnect InfiniBand 4x
Gigabit Ethernet
Cluster Management Platform Manager
Workload Manager Altair PBS Pro
Development Tools Linux clusters pre-installed with Intel compiler runtime environment, Intel MPI Library runtime environment. Available as additional options: Intel® C++ and Fortran Compilers for Linux, Intel MPI Library, Intel® Math Kernel Library (MKL), Intel Cluster Toolkit, Intel Threading Building Blocks, Intel Thread Checker, Intel® Trace Analyzer and Collector, and Intel® VTune Performance Analyzer for Linux.
Memory Up to 64GB per node


* Microsoft WCCS available today on Altix XE310, planned for June 2008 on Altix XE320 and Altix XE250.