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 compromising 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 and/or AMD Opteron™ 6100 series processors to deliver up to 64 blade servers per rack, providing up to 1536 processing cores in a single 42U rack.
Delivers Unsurpassed Value and Efficiency
- Advanced Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) features, including redundant power supplies, redundant cooling fans and hot-swappable blades.
- SGI innovation in power/cooling, incorporates field proven SGI® Altix® power/cooling architecture that delivers leading rack-level 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.
- Based on 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's world-class services organization, with an unmatched track record for successfully building, deploying, and supporting the world's most complex HPC systems.
