| Feature |
Benefit |
Modular Blade Design
Multiple options in compute blades with respect to number of cores, processor speed and memory |
- Unlimited flexibility and control over system configuration
- Improved performance density
- Optimize for any workload (large compute, memory or I/O)
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Compatible with Future Technology
Socket compatible with future Intel® Xeon® processors |
- Investment protection
- Expand on demand
- Easily upgrade or service individual components
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Scalable System Size
Scales to 256 sockets (2,048 cores, 4,096 threads) system size and as much as 64TB memory |
- Superior sustained performance for any programming model or workload
- Breakthrough performance for data-intensive applications
- Simplified programming with single system image (SSI)
- Easy, low-cost administration
|
NUMAlink® 6 (NL6) Interconnect, MPI Support
High bandwidth, very low latency, MPI Offload Engine |
- Industry-leading cluster application efficiency to hundreds of processors or more
- Scale up to thousands of CPU cores while retaining coherent memory addressing to petascale
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SGI Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS)
Fault prevention, detection, recovery and memory RAS
|
- Maximum uptime, higher utilization
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Standards-Based Design
Industry standard CPUs, memory and I/O |
- Linux® performance and choice without compromised capability
- Leading price-performance versus RISC/Unix servers
- SGI-level quality at an affordable cost
|
Certified on Multiple Operating Systems
Industry-standard Linux (SUSE® or RedHat®) |
- Runs standard x86 software
- One-stop support options
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