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Press Release
Massive SGI Systems Join Top 500 List Large-Scale Systems at New Mexico Computing Applications Center, NASA, and Idaho National Laboratory Deploy in Days RENO, Nev., Supercomputing 2007, (November 12, 2007)—Just months after its introduction by SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC), several new clusters incorporating the new SGI® Altix® ICE blade platform appear prominently on Top 500's latest ranking of the most powerful computers on Earth.The Top 500 list was announced today at Supercomputing 2007. Among the latest entrants:
These multiple appearances by Altix ICE on the Top 500 list after only four months of availability are a testament to the "power up and go" architecture of Altix ICE. Fully integrated, factory tested, and pre-installed with a software stack featuring the SGI® Tempo management tool, SGI Altix ICE is built for fast deployment even for high-performance computing (HPC) installations that scale to thousands of processors. SGI innovations, including cable-free blade enclosures, integrated switches, and a high-performance interconnect architecture, all work together to help customers get their systems up and running quickly. That advantage is crucial, since many so-called "white box" Linux® clusters can take months to deploy, a problem that can delay productive work and reduce an organization's return on its IT investment. "It was impressive to see how quickly our SGI Altix ICE cluster was up and running," said Peter Cebull, HPC User Consultant, Idaho National Laboratory, which acquired a 2,048-core Altix ICE cluster through FederalEdge, Inc., an SGI value-added reseller. "Even though this new Altix ICE will provide four times the compute capability of the system it's replacing, it has been extremely easy to deploy and manage. We plan to leverage the ICE platform's integrated InfiniBand interconnect to scale our applications across more cores and achieve far more detailed simulations." At No. 21, DOD's HAWK Deploys in Less than Five Weeks "With many multimillion-dollar supercomputers staying technologically current for only three to five years, spending 10 to 20 percent of that time on just the start-up deployment process can be costly. Consequently, from scale-out clusters to shared-memory supercomputers, SGI has invested heavily in the development of rapidly deployable solutions," said Dr. Eng Lim Goh, SGI's senior vice president and chief technology officer. "It's one thing to throw thousands of processors at a problem, but it's something else entirely to deliver a solution that is productive within days, or even hours, after it rolls off the truck." SGI Altix systems combine world-class performance with a space- and energy-efficient architecture that helps organizations reduce the impact of HPC systems on the data center. Innovations, including the use of highly efficient power supplies and SGI's third-generation water-cooled door options, can equate to significant savings for customers that face increasing energy and cooling costs. In a large deployment, these efficiencies can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars in cost savings each year. Now on Altix ICE: 45nm Quad-Core Xeon Processor The Top500 list, published every June and November, is compiled by Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim, Germany; and Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The new list is available at http://www.top500.org/ SGI | Innovation for Results™ SGI, Altix, the SGI cube and the SGI logo are registered trademarks of SGI in the United States and/or other countries worldwide. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. Intel, Xeon and Itanium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
