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 SGI® Altix® UV 1000 World's Most Powerful Enterprise Java Application System |
 SGI Altix UV 1000 system achieved two world records for performance on the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation's SPECjbb2005® benchmark, an industry-standard measurement of Java-based application performance. Altix UV 1000 easily outperformed systems from Fujitsu, Oracle/Sun, ScaleMP and HP. Altix UV 1000 championed its nearest competitors in two important metrics: ultimate throughput (Business Operations per second or BOPS) and Single Java Virtual Machine (JVM) performance. Complete SPECjbb2005 results are posted at www.spec.org. [Full story]
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| SGI Announces Industry's First One-Stop-Shop Website for Advanced HPC Training |
 Visit hpctraining.com, the industry's first complete, vendor-agnostic training portal aimed at the technical high performance computing (HPC) user community. Hpctraining.com offers a broad portfolio of courses—from novice to advanced—to help users realize the full potential of their HPC systems. Hpctraining.com offers E-Learning training courses, virtual classroom environments and customized on-site classes. A Technical User Forum enables simplified knowledge sharing around best practices. [Full story] |
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Australia's Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative Deploys SGI® Cluster to Accelerate Life
Sciences Research |
| SGI has shipped the first complete systems of Altix UV 1000, which are fully functional for use by its high performance computing (HPC) customers. Those among the first to benefit from Altix UV include leading scientific research institutions such as Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), University of Cambridge and leading federal integrators that have selected Altix UV for its unprecedented performance, scalability and open architecture. [Full story] |
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| White Paper—Shared Memory: Standards Scale Up with SGI Altix UV |
Shared-memory systems gave way to clusters in high performance computing (HPC) because of the perceived
price/performance benefits of industry-standard processors and operating environment, leaving behind proprietary
architecture that scaled well but which were based on more expensive RISC processors (or later, Itanium) and
customized UNIX implementations. This cost savings came at a cost: the loss of shared-memory programming
capabilities and performance benefits in the wholesale movement to MPI on distributed-memory clusters.
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| White Paper—SGI® Origin® 400 The Integrated Workgroup Blade System
Optimized for SME Workflows |
| SGI Origin 400 is a highly integrated 'business-in-a-box' blade system with seamless installation,
migration and growth capabilities. It delivers exceptional value, together with the reliability, flexibility
and simplicity that are essential for the SME market. [Full story]
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| Worldwide—Weekly Specials on Remarketed Products |
Visit our weekly specials featuring remarketed products with exceptional sale prices. These systems and options may come with a full system warranty or a six month warranty, and are eligible for extended support. All products are limited to supply on hand and are subject to prior sale. [Full story]
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