Companies today are dealing with increasingly difficult business problems, with ever-growing amounts of data to manage and process, and pressure to deliver results in record time. Most attack this critical problem by expanding IT infrastructure. But this "bigger faster" approach often comes with unforeseen administration and facilities costs and lower than expected throughput due to data bottlenecks. The SGI Altix ICE integrated blade cluster was designed for today's data intensive problems and avoids these pitfalls. This innovative new platform from SGI raises the efficiency bar, easily scaling to meet virtually any processing requirements without compromise on ease of use, manageability, or price/performance. SGI Altix ICE delivers unsurpassed customer value, with breakthrough density, efficiency, reliability, and manageability
Built with High Performance Computing (HPC) in Mind
- Cable-free blade enclosures, integrated switches, and a high-performance interconnect architecture easily scale to 1000s of nodes.
- Performance-dense architecture combines an innovative new board design, with the latest and most powerful Intel® Xeon® processors to deliver up to 64 blade severs per rack, providing up to 512 processing cores in a single 42U rack.
- Off-blade storage and hierarchical management system for highly efficient scalability and manageability at node, rack unit (IRU), rack, or system.
Delivers Unsurpassed Value and Efficiency
- Advanced reliability architecture with redundant power and fans, diskless blades, and hot-swappable blades.
- SGI innovation in power/cooling, incorporates field proven SGI® Altix® power/cooling architecture that delivers >75% rack power efficiency, and water-cooled doors (optional).
- Flexible configuration options enables customer to optimize for performance or cost, with customer value that scales with system size.
Drives Immediate Productivity - Power Up & Go!!!
- SGI "Power Up & Go" design, with systems that are fully integrated and tested in the factory, enabling scalable cluster solutions in hours, not weeks.
- Industry standards, delivered with the SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server operating system and a comprehensive cluster solution stack that includes the SGI® Tempo management software for quick deployment and easy management.
- Backed 100% by SGI World-class Customer Service organization, with unmatched track record for successfully building, deploying, and supporting the world's most complex HPC systems.
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