SGI is rolling out its Ice Cube Air modular data center, a solution designed to give enterprises a cost-efficient and eco-friendly way to exapnd the capacity of their facilities. – SGI is unveiling a modular data center offering that lets enterprises build capacity as needed and cool the IT environment using outside air or water from a hose rather than air conditioning units or chilled water.
SGI is showing off the Ice Cube Air on the floor of the Gartner Data Center Conferen…
At the Supercomputing 2010 show, SGI unveils its Prism XL, which officials say uses accelerators to bring a petaflop of computing into a single cabinet. – SGI is unveiling a hybrid system aimed at the high-performance
computing space that leverages the power of CPUs and accelerators such
as graphics chips from the likes of Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia.
Introduced at the Supercomputer 2010 show in New
Orleans Nov. 15, the Prism XL takes advant…
SGI InfiniteStorage 16000 features dense, industrial-strength data storage and mixed I/O options, with 8G-bit Fibre Channel and 40G-bit InfiniBand. – High-performance computer maker SGI on Sept.
22 introduced its newest storage system, SGI
InfiniteStorage 16000, intended for high-octane environments that deal with
mixed workloads.
Most often, HPC (high-performance computing)
systems that handle computation for projects such as genome rende…
The modular InfiniteStorage 5000 RAID data storage system will hold from 12 to 96 disk, solid-state or full-disk encryption drives in 2U or 4U configurations and features a 2GB controller cache. – SGI on June 15 joined the growing ranks
of high-end storage vendors targeting the midmarket when it launched a spiffy
new 6G-bps SAS version of its high-performance InfiniteStorage product line.
The InfiniteStorage 5000 features a choice of host interfaces SAS, Fibre
Channel/SAS or iSCSI/SAS SG…
At the International Supercomputing 2010 show, SGI announced a new computing platform that takes advantage of general-purpose GPUs from Nvidia and AMDs ATI business to scale up to a petaflop of computing power in a single server cabinet. – SGI has created a computing platform that takes advantage of
graphics processing capabilities to get a petaflop of compute power
into a single cabinet.
SGI announced the hybrid computing platform June 1 at the International Supercomputing 2010 show in Hamburg, Germany.
Like a growing number of s…
SGI, which rolled out its first ICE Cube modular data center in 2007, is expanding its offerings. Until now, the ICE Cube has only offered SGI’s half-depth Rackable servers. The upcoming Universal class of modular data center will be able to hold full-size servers and storage equipment from third-party vendors as well as from SGI. – SGI is expanding its ICE Cube
containerized data center offerings to give customers more flexibility and extend
the product’s reach into the high-performance computing space.
SGI on May 27 introduced a Universal
class of ICE Cube that can accommodate not only the company’s entire server and
sto…
The new SGI InfiniteStorage Select Product line comprises the InfiniteStorage 220-SP, 4100-SP and 4600-SP storage arrays. LSI provides the storage control software. – <p>SGI is embarking upon a global
initiative with LSI Corporation to expand
its SGI InfiniteStorage products with
compelling new configurations powered by LSI,
the company announced May 13.<br />
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This expanded relationship will market LSI’s
storage-control software in SGI’s hardware
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SGI is bringing the newest processors from Intel and AMD to its Altix ICE HPC blade servers. The Altix ICE 8400 also features an improved InfiniBand I/O architecture. Three Altix ICE 8400 servers are run on Intel Xeon 5600 chips. The other two are powered by AMDs Opteron 6100 processors.
– SGI is updating its Altix ICE blade
servers with the latest x86 processors from both Intel and Advanced Micro
Devices and a bulked-up InfiniBand network designed to increase scalability.
SGIs Altix ICE 8400,
announced May 5 and aimed at the HPC (high-performance
computing) space, can scale as h…
SGI’s InfiniteStorage Server 3500 is a proprietary system designed for enterprise environments in which data and computing need to be tightly coupled, such as video surveillance, data warehousing and object storage for Lustre environments.
– High-performance computing specialist SGI,
which is becoming a more competitive player in the enterprise data storage and
virtualization sectors, April 13 introduced an integrated x86-class storage
array for new-generation data centers.
The reconstituted SGI, which in February bought
the asse…
SGI today announced immediate support of Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series (codenamed “Westmere-EP”) across its entire scale-out server lineup. SGI’s server solutions will boast increased performance, core density and power efficiency up to sixty percent.
SGI is bringing many of the enterprise capabilities of its legacy Origin systems to the Origin 400, an integrated computing, storage and networking package for small and midsize enterprises and such verticals as education and health care. The new offering is powered by Intel’s Xeon 5600 processors, code-named Westmere EP.
– SGI is bringing out a product that combines
compute blades, networking and storage capabilities in an integrated package.
SGI’s Origin 400, unveiled
March 16, brings the company’s Origin scalable server capabilities from the
enterprise into the midrange, according to Geoffrey Noer, senior direct…
Copan was known within the industry for its MAID storage software platform. However, the company struggled in recent years and couldn’t make a go of it in the increasingly crowded enterprise data storage business. SGI now owns a highly scalable, energy-efficient enterprise platform.
– SGI, which in April 2009 became a
combination of Rackable Systems and the original Silicon Graphics, announced
Feb. 23 that it has purchased the assets of Copan Systems, a bankrupt provider of high-performance storage archive solutions, for about
$2 million in cash.
Copan was known within the …
SGI is bringing its high-end technical computing capabilities to the cloud with its new Cyclone environment, which runs on its Intel-based Altix systems. Businesses can either run their own application in the cloud environment or access the technical applications hosted on the systems. SGI says Cyclone complements the traditional and modular data center products it already offers.
– SGI is taking its technical computing expertise to the cloud.
SGI is rolling out Cyclone, its cloud computing
environment for the HPC (high-performance computing) market, which
officials called an extension of what the company has been offering in
traditional and modular data center settings.
“…
SGI is looking to fill the void for customers of financially struggling Verari, which is restructuring after laying off the bulk of its employees. SGI says it will offer customized support to Verari customers through its own services unit. Veraris CEO hopes to have a new plan for the company in place within a couple of weeks.
– SGI is offering product support to customers of struggling server rival Verari Systems.
Verari has laid off the
bulk of its 225 or so employees and is undergoing what CEO David Wright
calls a restructuring, though its unclear what the company may look
like or whether it will be around after the …
Industry-standard technology, GPUs and energy efficiency were among the key themes running throughout the Supercomputing 2009 show in Portland, Ore. At the show, which wraps up Nov. 20, a number of vendors, including Cray, Dell, HP and SGI showed off new and enhanced high-end systems, many of which are designed to enable businesses and HPC (high-performance computing) environments to ramp up performance and density while driving down operational, capital and power costs. In addition, Intel unveiled that it will offer a Nehalem EX Xeon processor optimized for supercomputing, while the chip maker boasted that 402 of the top 500 fastest supercomputers in the world are powered by its processors. Rival AMD took the number-one spot, with the Opteron-powered Jaguar computer from Cray knocking off IBM’s RoadRunner at the top of the list. Here are a few of the new systems OEMs showed off at the show.
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SGI is showing off its scalable Altix UV supercomputer aimed at HPC environments and high-end enterprise workloads. The system can scale up to 2,048 processing cores with a performance of up to 18.6 teraflops. SGI is unveiling the system, which is powered by Intels upcoming “Nehalem EX” Xeon processors, at the Supercomputing 2009 show.
– The new SGI is continuing the supercomputing
legacy of its namesake processor.
At the Supercomputing 2009 show Nov. 16, SGI
unveiled what officials are calling the fastest and most scalable shared-memory
system.
Powered by Intels upcoming “Nehalem EX” Xeon processors, the Altix UV can
scale fr…
Intel and SGI are scaling the extreme heights of supercomputing with a shared memory supercomputer called Altix UV. The system will lead the industry in maximizing bandwidth and minimizing latency on cluster and HPC applications. The system, which is being unveiled at Supercomputing 2009 in Portland, Ore., uses quad-, six-, or eight-core Nehalem-EX processors, and will deliver exceptional performance and scalability. Supercomputing 2009 attendees can see Altix UV in SGI’s booth, #1721.
SGIs new Octane III personal supercomputer, which can support up to 80 processing cores and up to 960GB of memory, is the latest offering from the company designed to close the gap in HPC between the data center and desktop. Octane III follows SGIs release in August of the CloudRack X2 aimed at departmental units and workgroups.
– Since Rackable Systems bought Silicon Graphics in May,
officials with the new SGI have been working
to close what they said is a market gap in the high-performance computing space
between workstations and clusters.
SGI in August began closing
that gap with the CloudRack X2 cluster aimed at the …
An SGI® Altix® 4700 platform, powered by the Intel® Itanium® Processor 9040 (1.6GHz), set three SPEC benchmark world records at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Germany. SGI used a single-system image (SSI) node with 1024 Itanium cores, 4TB of memory and Novell’s SuSE Linux® Enterprise 10 operating environment to achieve record-breaking results on SPECjbb2005, SPECint_rate_base2006 and SPECfp_rate_base2006 benchmarks.
Days after SGI officials said the next-generation Altix system dubbed “Ultraviolet” would be powered by Intels upcoming Xeon “Nehalem EX” chips, SGI CEO Mark Barrenechea said in a blog that the company will continue developing systems powered by Itanium, and that Ultraviolet will support both Xeon and Itanium processors. However, the first Ultraviolet systems will be powered by Intel’s eight-core Nehalem EX chips.
– SGI might be building a new high-end Altix system powered by Intels upcoming “Nehalem EX” chips, but that doesnt mean the company is abandoning Itanium, according to SGI CEO Mark Barrenechea.
In a blog post July 24, Barrenechea said that SGI will continue supporting and developing systems that run …
