SGI Altix 450

Combine a modular blade server architecture with Itanium® 2 CPUs for HPC

SGI’s newest midrange servers, the Altix 450, deliver up to 2.5 times the performance of their previous generation Altix 350 servers, in a unique blade architecture, at a lower cost.

These dual-socket blades feature the new dual-core Intel® Itanium® 2 chips. This modular architecture can fit up to 76 sockets in a tall rack, and supports up to 38 sockets in a single system image. Blade-to-NUMAlink™ architecture gives eight choices of blade servers, each with interchangeable memory, I/O and compute power. In addition, the NUMAflex™ architecture makes up to 456GB of memory globally available for each instance of Linux in your system.

In addition to the compute blades with Itanium 2 chips, you can also choose memory-only blades, which fit up to 24GB DDR-2 memory per blade, adding to your system’s shared memory pool without purchasing unnecessary software licenses & CPUs. In addition to base I/O blades, there are:

• PCI-X expansion blades,
• PCI-Express I/O and graphics expansion blades, and
• PCI-X + PCI-Express I/O & graphics expansion blades

available, allowing you to scale I/O separately. You can also choose to install SGI’s RC100 RASC™ blades for FPGA computing.

Designed specifically for demanding uses such as high performance computing, SGIs Altix 450 servers combine industry-standard architecture with a high-performance backplane. With their patented NUMAflex and NUMAlink architectures, the Altix 450 is ideal for HPC Linux® workloads, and runs on Novell® SUSE Enterprise Linux® or Red Hat® Enterprise Linux.

North American Systems serves as SGI’s primary geographic reseller in the Midwest area. We are the expert local resource for SGI’s high-performance computing & data storage needs. To contact an SGI expert today, simply click the link to the right and fill out your information. You may also contact us by calling 800-927-7474 or emailing sales@nasi.com.

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