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SGI White Paper
Shared Memory: Standards Scale Up with SGI Altix UV

SGI White Paper
Technical Advances in the SGI Altix UV Architecture

SGI White Paper
Altix UV Customer Testimonials (PDF)

The World's Fastest Supercomputer

Altix® UV scales to extraordinary levels-up to 2,048 cores (256 sockets) with architectural support to 262,144 cores (32,768 sockets). Support for up to 16TB of global shared memory in a single system image, enables Altix UV to remain highly efficient at scale for applications ranging from in-memory databases, to a diverse set of data and compute-intensive HPC applications.

Scalable System Size

The Altix UV family consists of three models that enable users to optimally size their systems, achieving the correct balance of compute, memory and storage capability. Altix UV 10 is one of the most capable quad-socket rackmount servers available, whereas Altix UV 100 and Altix UV 1000 are all about scaling a single system image to a maximum of 2048 cores. This is possible due to their innovative NUMAflex®, blade-based architecture.

Altix UV Models

  • Altix UV 10 – In a 4U rackmount form factor, Altix UV 10 packs up to four processors (32 cores), 64 DIMM slots and ten I/O expansion slots. With up to 1TB of shared memory, Altix UV 10 is ideal for a diverse set of technical computing and Enterprise applications.
  • Altix UV 100 - Addresses the mid-range market based on an industry-standard 19" rackmount 3U form factor. Altix UV 100 scales to 96 sockets (768 cores) and 6TB of shared memory in two racks. Altix UV 100 delivers up to 6.9 teraflops of compute power in a single system image.
  • Altix UV 1000 - For maximum scalability, Altix UV 1000 ships as a fully integrated cabinet-level solution with up to 256 sockets (2,048 cores) and 16TB of shared memory in four racks. Altix UV 1000 delivers up to 18.5 teraflops of compute power in a single system image.

An Open Platform

The Altix UV system's x86 architecture, based on open standards, leverages quad-, six-, or eight-core Intel® Xeon® 7500 series processors. Because of SGI's collaboration with the Linux community, Altix UV runs completely unmodified Linux, including standard distributions from both Novell and Red Hat. The impact grows from there as the x86 application ecosystem is unrivaled by any other, making Altix UV ideal not only for running custom codes, but also off-the-shelf ISV applications.

Flexible System Expansion and Storage Capabilities

Industry-standard PCI Express expansion slots open up countless possibilities for system configurations with seamless support for industry-standard networking, storage and graphics/GPU cards. This enables deployment of NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPUs to supercharge performance for many workloads. It also means full support for the entire SGI InfiniteStorage hardware and software products.