| Feature |
Benefit |
| SGI "Power Up & Go" Design |
Immediate productivity with up to 14.1 teraflops per rack to drive user applications. |
| Advanced Blade Enclosure Design |
Reduced cost and complexity and simplified scalability, with cable-free blade enclosures and switchless topology. Optimize for maximum performance or ultra cost efficiency (price/performance). |
| Flexible Packaging |
Leading value and Return on Investment (ROI), with ability to choose from blades and blade enclosures and optimize for raw performance or lowest possible cost. |
| HPC Optimized Compute Blades |
Leading performance density for optimal data center space utilization. Blade options include support for the powerful Intel Xeon 5600 and AMD Opteron™ 6100 series processors both based on PCI-E 2.0 capable QDR InfiniBand connectivity. |
| SGI Patented Power Design |
Enhanced power efficiency for reduced overall cost of deployment. |
| SGI Water Chilled Doors |
Increased reliability by maintaining an optimal operational environmental temperature, preventing overheating that could otherwise lead to system outages. |
| SGI® Management Suite |
Simplified scalability and easier management, based on a Hierarchical Management Framework (HMF) that provides the ability to manage, monitor and provision at blade, blade enclosure, rack and system level. Efficiently scales to thousands of nodes. |
| Comprehensive Solution |
Immediate productivity, with an available fully integrated software solution stack that includes SGI® Foundation Software, SGI Performance Suite and Altair® PBS Professional™ workload manager. |
| Industry-standards Based |
Fully satisfies IT OS, applications and security compliancy requirements, and delivers all of the benefits of open industry-standard, with SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server or Red Hat® Enterprise Linux. Select from an extensive portfolio of 32- and 64-bit applications, with the assurance of industry-leading performance and reliability. |
