Datasheets

• SGI UV Datasheet (PDF 626K)

Customer Case Studies

• National Center for Supercomputing Applications (PDF 718K)
• Center for Scientific and Academic Services of Catalonia (PDF 726K)
• National Institute for Computational Sciences (PDF 698K)
• Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PDF 1.0M)
• University of Valencia (PDF 687K)
• 3M (PDF 492K)
• Masaryk University (PDF 719K)
• Early Customer Testimonials (PDF 359K)

White Papers

• Blacklight at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Shines Light on Life Sciences Research (PDF 335K)
• Performance and Productivity Breakthroughs with Very Large Coherent Shared Memory: The SGI UV Architecture (PDF 488K)
• Virtualization Best Practices on SGI UV 1000 using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 KVM (PDF 1.8M)
• Zircon Adaptive Software on SGI UV 1000 for High Performance Data Analytics - Executive Summary (PDF 460K)
• Zircon Adaptive Software on SGI UV 1000 for High Performance Data Analytics (PDF 882K)
• A Hardware-Accelerated MPI Implementation on SGI UV Systems (PDF 476K)
• SGI UV System Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability: Optimizing RAS for the World's Fastest Supercomputer (PDF 898K)
• Shared Memory: Standards Scale Up with SGI UV (PDF 420K)
• Technical Advances in the SGI UV Architecture (PDF 809K)
• Application Migration for SSI Architectures (PDF 497K)

Industry & Technical Briefs

• IDC Technology Spotlight: New Data-Intensive Problems Need Supercomputers with Supersized Memories - registration required
• Faster Results, More Science - Large Memory Systems for Science (PDF 1.4M)
• Parallel Scaling Performance of Gaussian 09 on Shared Memory & Cluster Parallel Systems (PDF 768K)

Videos & Media

• SGI UV Technology Overview: Flash | YouTube
• Webcasts & Podcasts
  • Learn about the SGI UV design with Dr. Eng Lim Goh, CTO of SGI - YouTube
  • See a demo of the SGI UV with Dr. Eng Lim Goh, CTO of SGI - YouTube
  • Learn about SGI UV Markets with Bill Mannel, VP of Product Marketing at SGI (MP3 7.5M)
  • Hear the SGI UV Details with Jill Matzke, Director of Shared Memory Systems at SGI (MP3 8.7M)
  • Pervasive Datarush First to TeraCUPS Performance on Bioinformatics on SGI UV - insideHPC.com
• Images: SGI UV in the Image Library

Contributed Articles

• Dr. Eng Lim Goh, SGI CTO - insideHPC interview: The 16 Terabyte PC – SGI Bets on Exascale
• Jill Matzke, SGI Director, Shared Memory Systems: A Different Approach to Data
• Bill Mannel, SGI VP of Product Marketing: Accelerating Business Intelligence

Press Releases

• 2012
  • Queensland University of Technology Selects SGI to Advance Broad Research Charter - April 30
  • Researchers Turn Big Data Problems Into Advanced Biology and Drug Discoveries - April 24
  • Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Selects SGI to Advance High-Speed Simulations and Next Generation AI Research - March 21
  • National Institute of Genetics Adopts SGI HPC Solution for New Supercomputer System - March 1
  • Sikorsky Selects SGI to Power Next Generation Helicopter Design - January 17
  • COSMOS & Miracle Consortia Select SGI Technology to Close in on the Big Bang & Exoplanets - January 6
• 2011
  • Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center Selects SGI to Power the Next Generation of Scientific Research - December 5
  • SGI® UV Achieves Largest Certified Configuration for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Joint Release with Red Hat) - November 14
  • Institute for Chemical Research at Kyoto University Selects SGI to Advance Computational Chemistry and Biological Research - November 1
  • Hungarian National Information Infrastructure Development Institute Selects SGI to Power Advanced Scientific Research - October 4
  • Tohoku University Selects SGI to Advance Fluid Science Research - August 22
  • Swinburne University of Technology Selects SGI to Accelerate Astrophysics Research - July 13
  • DTU Accelerates Metagenomic Research with SGI Altix UV - June 14
  • SGI Marks Supercomputing Milestone with Over 500 Altix UV Systems Delivered - June 13
  • UK Atomic Weapons Establishment Accelerates Engineering Efforts with SGI® Altix® UV - March 30
• 2010
  • SGI Receives HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards for Second Consecutive Year - November 16
  • New SGI Jolt Technology for Altix UV Extends Shared Memory to Unprecedented Scale - November 15
  • CESCA Boosts Scientific Research with SGI Altix UV - October 28
  • A*STAR Accelerates Scientific Discovery with SGI Altix UV 1000 - September 22
  • SGI Announces Support for Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Sets New Java Benchmark Record - September 20
  • University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Accelerates Its Research with Addition of SGI Altix UV 1000 - August 30
  • Cosmos Consortium Selects SGI to Accelerate Research on the Origin of the Universe - August 11
  • SGI Altix UV 1000 World's Most Powerful Enterprise Java Application System - July 19
  • SGI Announces First Shipments of Complete Altix UV 1000 Systems - June 1
  • SGI Broadens Altix UV Shared Memory Server Line with New High Performance Quad-socket Altix UV 10 - May 27
  • Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Accelerates Scientific Research with SGI Altix UV - April 5
  • SGI Introduces New Software Products to Enhance Manageability, Scale and Performance of SGI Hardware - March 30
  • The Institute of Cancer Research Selects SGI Altix UV, World's Fastest Supercomputer, As Dedicated System for Cancer Research - January 26
• 2009
  • SGI Unveils Altix UV, the World's Fastest Supercomputer - November 16

Media Coverage

• computings.es - University of Valencia starts a new stage in the supercomputing field - March 2011
• Zircon - Zircon announces record high performance data analytics benchmark results on SGI ALTIX UV 1000 (PDF) - December 2010
• NICS - RDAV and Nautilus Enter Full Production - September 2010
• Pervasive - Pervasive DataRush on SGI Altix UV 1000 Shatters Smith-Waterman Throughput Record by 43 Percent - September 27, 2010
• University of Tennessee - UT’s Supercomputer Nautilus Kicks into High Gear - September 15, 2010
• IDT - IDT Voltage Regulator Modules Power The World's Fastest Supercomputer - September 14, 2010
• EETimes - SGI ASIC is first step to exascale system - September 10, 2010
• HPCwire - NSF Awards Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center $2.8M Toward Shared-Memory System - July 29, 2010
• NCSA - NCSA to provide Ember as shared-memory resource for nation's researchers - March 2, 2010