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SGI in the Enterprise

SGI's Enterprise Solutions manage large amount of data faster and more economically than our competitors. SGI delivers this with our state-of-the-art, high performance NUMAflex architecture that moves data faster than any other system in its class. Proven expertise in low power system design, high density system design, and deployment of open standards technology enables SGI to offer innovative products to our customers at a lower price and lower total cost of ownership

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SGI is leveraging its experience in solving the world's most difficult High Performance Computing problems to address data-intensive computing challenges in the Enterprise market. SGI Altix systems are the most flexible, scalable systems in their class, allowing customers to independently increase CPUs, memory or I/O and support up to 12TB of memory in a single system. SGI's database solutions offer lower TCO than competing solutions because SGI servers can be configured with more memory and fewer CPUs, resulting in lower hardware and software license costs. SGI storage devices offer high performance interconnects to support the large data requirements of customers and remove infrastructure bottlenecks.

Proof Points

Performance

  • SGI Altix 4700 holds the world record for SPECjbb2005, 4,231,610 billions of operations/sec, 2 times faster than the next closest competitor.
  • SGI Altix aggregate memory bandwidth is 5,778 GB/s, 7x faster than the closest competitor.1

Scalability

  • SGI Altix servers support more memory than any other system in its class, up to up to 12TB in a single system (128TB of addressable memory) 2
  • SGI Altix servers support more memory per core than any other system in its class, up to 208 GB/core.3

Flexibility

  • Unique memory-only blades allow customers to add memory to SGI Altix 4700 and 450 servers without adding CPUs or I/O.

Lower TCO

  • The flexible memory architecture of Altix servers allows customers to configure Altix servers with more memory and less cores than competing systems, resulting in overall lower hardware and software license costs.
  • SGI Altix 4700 server requires as little as 1/3 the data center floor space that competing systems require. 4
  • SGI Altix 4700 server uses as little as 40% the power required by competing systems. 5

Partnerships

  • SGI delivers highly scalable, cost-effective Enterprise solutions by combining advanced technology from industry leading partners with innovative system design and software.
  • SGI maintains a close working relationship with Novell on Linux support for scalability, performance, and support for SGI servers and storage systems
  • SGI works closely with Red Hat on Linux support with a special emphasis on security and adherence to standards
  • SGI contributes thousands of lines of code to the Linux community, including code that supports large scale computing, reliability and system stability

 

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