Sr. Vice President, High Performance Systems Development Silicon Graphics The Altix 3000 Supercluster
For technical users seeking to achieve breakthrough performance with
open-source computing, the SGI Altix 3000 family takes Linux® to new
altitudes of scalability and performance. SGI Altix 3000 superclusters can
scale up to hundreds of Intel® Itanium® 2 processors with a built-in SGI®
NUMAlinkTM interconnect fabric that delivers information between nodes up to
200 times faster than conventional clustering switches. Each node of an SGI
Altix 3000 supercluster can run a single Linux operating system image over
64 Intel Itanium 2 processors and up to 512GB of memory.
The San Diego Supercomputer
Center (SDSC) is a research unit of the University of California,
San Diego, and the leading-edge site of the National Partnership for
Advanced Computational Infrastructure. SDSC researchers conduct studies
in computational science, develop high-performance computing and networking
technologies, and participate in NPACI activities.