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SGI introduces Itanium 2 supercomputer and Linux

SGI (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: SIG) has started shipments of Linux servers with up to 64 Itanium 2 processors. The formerly traded under the code name SN2 series now officially belongs to the name Altix 3000th You want to crash simulations in the auto industry or in the calculation of flow resistances in the aircraft are used. The refrigerator-sized machine costs, depending on the configuration of the one million dollars.

In principle, it is at Altix 3000 machines modified for Origin 3000 systems: Instead of SGI’s MIPS chips are Intel processors said and instead of Irix Unix derivative, the open source operating system used. Manager Greg Estes of SGI reported that the Altix 3000 can with the Red Hat distribution will be operated. However, we advise to use a modified version of SGI, for example, the house contains the XFS filesystem.

“If you play in the supercomputing business, be sure to deliver high performance,” said Gordon Haff of Illuminata analyst. .. “That would be with MIPS, but become increasingly difficult, and Linux is of course the darling of the mainframe scene Altix is ​​impressive from a technical point of view: This is not a multi-purpose weapon, but he believes in dealing with the very specific problems for which he designed has been. “

According to marketing manager Jan Silverman, SGI Altix is ​​a benchmark for the series, especially with cluster solutions from other vendors. In addition, we wanted to in a year also offer the opportunity to unite multiple systems. Up to 2048 processors will be supported maximum. Currently, SGI Altix 3000 systems at two: The 3300 comes with twelve chips, with 64 of the 3700

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