[Sussex] SGI Altix 3000

[Angelo Servini]

Drool, Seriously Drooling!  Anyhow, how about a few thousand of these on one
CPU chip!  That would be taking LSI to grand heights.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Geoff Teale 
> Sent: Wednesday, 08 January 2003 11:50
> To: Sussex (E-mail)
> Subject: [Sussex] SGI Altix 3000
> 
> 
> SLUGS,
> 
> For those of you who get a kick out of / lust after _serious_ 
> hardware, the
> latest offering from SGI is now your new official pin up (you 
> can take down
> that Sun StarFire 150k poster):
> 
> The SGI Altix 3000 is a cluster box in the same vein as the 
> Origin series -
> the difference ?  Well, Altix is built around Intel Itanium 
> 64bit processors
> (up to 64 of these CPU's in each box) and runs LINUX rather than SGI
> proprietary UNIX (IRIX).
> 
> This is SGI reacting to the market big time - most of their 
> major customers
> are moving away from IRIX towards LINUX, so SGI are goiung 
> back to core
> competances - they build som seriously powerful kit.  Why buy 
> a cluster of
> these things instead of just building a Beowulf or OpenMOSIX 
> cluster ?  Easy
> - the SGI boxes in a cluster have true global shared memory - the
> performance gains are huge, plus SGI's graphics hardware is natively
> supported by some very cool IO channels - the graphics and 
> sound throughput
> of this machine is awesome.
> 
> 
> Details can be found at:
> 
> http://www.sgi.com/features/2003/jan/altix/
> 
> ... don't drool on your keyboard ;)
> 
> Now if they could just fit one of these on a mini-itx motherboard....
> 


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