SGI® Altix® ICE


Configurations

  SGI Altix XE270 SGI Altix XE340 SGI Altix XE500
Node Type Head or compute Compute (2 nodes per XE340) Head or compute
Rack Units 2U 1U 3U
Processors Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series Intel Xeon processor 5500 series Intel Xeon processor 5500 series
Memory Choice of up to 18 DDR3 DIMMs (2GB, 4GB, or 8GB DIMMs) Choice of up to 12 DDR3 DIMMs per node (2GB, 4GB, or 8GB DIMMs) Choice of up to 18 DDR3 DIMMs (2GB, 4GB, or 8GB DIMMs)
PCI Slots
  • 2 x PCIe x8 gen 2 (low profile)
  • 1 x PCIe x4 gen 1 (low profile)
  • 2 x PCI-x 133/100 (low profile)
  • 2 x PCIe x16 (1 per node) - low profile
  • 2 x PCIe x16 gen2* (full height)
  • 4 x PCIe x8 gen2* (full height)
*Configuration subject to change prior to MR
Integrated I/O
  • 2 x COM porta
  • 1 x VGA ports
  • 2 x Gigabit Ethernet
  • 4 x USB ports
  • 2 x PS/2 ports
  • 1 x BMC port
  • 2 x InfiniBand port (1 per node), optional
  • 2 x COM port (1 per node)
  • 2 x VGA (1 per node)
  • 4 x Gigabit Ethernet (2 per node)
  • 4 x USB ports (2 per node)
  • 2 x BMC ports
  • 1 x BMC port
  • 2 x COM ports
  • 1 x VGA ports
  • 2 x Gigabit Ethernet
  • 6 x USB ports
  • 2 x PS/2 ports
  • 1 x Mic
  • 5 x Audio
Internal Storage
  • Eight SATA or SAS drive bays with optional hardware RAID (0, 1, 5, 6, 10)
  • 3.5" SATA drives: 250GB, 500GB, 750GB, 1000GB
  • 3.5" SAS drives: 146GB, 300GB, 450GB
  • 8TB maximum storage
  • Optional DVD R/W
  • Four SATA drive bays (2 per node) with optional SAS and hardware RAID 0, 1
  • 3.5" SATA drives: 250GB, 500GB, 750GB, 1000GB
  • 3.5" SAS drives: 146GB, 300GB, 450GB
  • 4TB maximum storage (2TB per node)
  • Eight SATA or SAS drives with optional hardware RAID (0, 1, 5, 6, 10)
  • 3.5" SATA drives: 250GB, 500GB, 750GB, 1000GB
  • 3.5" SAS drives: 146GB, 300GB, 450GB
  • 8TB maximum storage
  • Optional DVD R/W
System Software
  • SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server 10 (and 11*)
  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 4 (stand alone systems only) and 5
  • Microsoft® Windows® HPC Server 2008*
  • SGI ProPack™ 6 for Linux®
* not available at MR
Software Solution Stack
  • Cluster Management Software: SGI ISLE™ Cluster Manager: Platform™ Manager
  • Job Scheduling/ Workload Management: Altair® PBS Professional™
  • Fabric Management: SGI InfiniBand Fabric Management (based on OFED)
  • Filesystem: XFS™ 64-bit journaledfilesystem (avail. on SUSE Linux OS), CXFS™ shared filesystem for SANs
  • Network File System: Samba, NFS
Linux Software Environment
  • Cluster Management Software: Platform Manager
  • Job Scheduling/ Workload Management: Altair® PBS Professional™
  • Fabric Management: SGI InfiniBand Fabric Management (based on OFED) or Voltaire GridStack (on SLES 9 systems)
  • Filesystem: XFS™ 64-bit journaled filesystem (avail. on SUSE Linux OS), CXFS™ shared filesystem for SANs
  • Network File System: Samba, NFS
Development Tools
  • Programming Languages: Intel C++ Compiler, Intel Fortran Compiler, GNU compilers
  • Debuggers: Intel Debugger (idb) included w/Intel compilers, GNU gdb, TotalView Technologies TotalViewDebugger TotalView Technologies MemoryScape, Allinea DDT, Intel Thread Checker
  • Libraries: Intel Math Kernel Library, Intel Integrated Performance Primitives, Intel Threading Building Blocks
  • Parallel Programming: SGI Message Passing Toolkit, SGI Array Services and Secure Array Services, Intel MPI Library, Platform MPI, OpenMP included w/Intel compilers, OpenMPI, Intel Cluster OpenMP, Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector, TotalView Technologies TotalView Debugger, Allinea DDT, Interactive Supercomputing Star-P
  • Performance Analysis: Intel VTune Performance Analyzer, Intel Trace Analyzer & Collector