World-Record Performance on MD Nastran, SPECjbb2005 and More Reveals How Altix Continues to Shorten Time to Results for HPC Users
SGI® Altix® systems are pushing key applications to levels of performance never seen before. The servers are based on the new Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® 2 processor 9000 series (formerly codenamed Montecito).SGI's dual-core Altix® 4700 and Altix® 450 servers deliver double the performance of today's award-winning Altix systems at the same or lower hardware cost, while drawing less power and offering more density and flexibility for demanding, data-intensive applications.
SGI Altix Again Crushes World Record for Memory Bandwidth
Clocking 4.35 Terabytes Per Second in STREAM Triad Tests, 1,024-Processor Altix 4700 Beats Current Record Four Times Over
Silicon Graphics announced that an SGI® Altix 4700 system has achieved a sustained memory bandwidth of 4.35 Terabytes (TB) per second in STREAM Triad benchmark tests.
The feat was achieved on an SGI Altix 4700 system powered by 1,024 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors running under a single copy of SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 10 from Novell with SGI ProPack™ 5 for Linux. The configuration, which includes 4TB of system memory, is the largest single system image (SSI) attainable on a Linux® OS system.
