SGI ProPack for Linux is designed to enhance the Linux experience for SGI® Altix® and SGI® Altix® XE, and SGI® Altix® ICE systems. SGI ProPack for Linux focuses on features that improve application performance, software development, and support for SGI's large scalable HPC systems, clusters and storage.

SGI ProPack 6 is the next generation of SGI's suite of performance optimization libraries and tools that accelerate applications on SGI's Linux systems. SGI ProPack 6 supports Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP 2 and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5.2 for SGI Altix. SGI Altix XE, and SGI Altix ICE systems. Key features in SGI ProPack 6:

• SGI Message Passing Toolkit is the massively scalable, high performance MPI Library
• Improve performance by managing processor and memory resources and data placement with SGI's Cpusets and NUMATools
• Optimize I/O Performance with Linkless FFIO, XVM Volume Manager, and XVM Plexing
• Performance Co-Pilot™ system performance monitoring tool for measuring and tuning system performance by finding and resolving bottlenecks
• Achieve hard real-time performance for applications with SGI REACT™ for Linux

Complementing SGI ProPack 6 is SGI Foundation Software 1. SGI Foundation Software 1 consists of technical support tools and utilities that enable SGI Altix, SGI Altix XE, and SGI Altix ICE systems to run reliably and consistently. Key features in SGI Foundation Software 1:

• Optimized drivers for InfiniBand and 10GigE interconnects
• SNMP agent and MIB for network monitoring of SGI systems
• Embedded Support Partner for monitoring system problems that are reported back to SGI for resolution
• Memory error logging to identify and handle memory failures to minimize downtime and improve system performance

With many years of Linux experience, SGI delivers robust, reliable, and highly scalable Linux systems to serve your high performance computing needs.

How to Buy
SGI ProPack 6 and SGI Foundation Software 1 are available for SGI Altix, SGI Altix XE, and SGI Altix ICE systems with Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP 2 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2. Please contact your SGI sales representative for more information.

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