SGI Altix Systems Make Giant Leap to 21 Terabytes of Globally Addressable Memory at Customer Sites
11 February 2009 - 1:05AM
PR Newswire (US)
Silicon Graphics Ultra Large Shared Memory Capability Enables New
Algorithms and Boosts Productivity for Critical Applications
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Silicon
Graphics, Inc. (SGI) (NASDAQ:SGIC) is in a category all by itself
when it comes to massive globally shared main memory and globally
addressable memory on SGI(R) Altix(R) 4700 systems. With numerous
installations in the 4 TB range, and a number more in the 8 TB
range, the groundbreaking scalability of SGI systems extends to 21
TB of globally addressable main memory at customer sites. This is
over five times the size of memory that other vendors can offer
today. The system is designed to accommodate 128 terabytes of
globally shared memory under the control of a single instance of
the Linux operating system! The system may also be partitioned
among multiple instances of Linux and provide globally addressable
shared memory among OS instances via SGI's unique NUMAlink(R)
interconnect technology. Large global shared memory saves time:
time-to-results, time-to-solution and time-to-innovation. It
significantly simplifies application development and debugging for
all multi-threaded applications but is mandatory for several
categories of applications including memory-resident data base
applications with uses in Internet data centers and transaction
processing, as well as those based on "graph theory," an important
area of mathematics with uses in defense and homeland security
applications, multi-disciplinary science, and data assimilation.
"There are applications emerging in the market that require
extremely large shared memory: one such application area is graph
theory," said Dr. Eng Lim Goh, senior vice president and chief
technology officer, Silicon Graphics, Inc. "In addition, the study
of complicated networks and relationships between objects in
business or scientific computing require the ability to put the
entire database or model into memory to analyze and/or compute.
Some of these applications demand an SGI Altix system, which is the
only server that offers sufficiently large shared memory capability
to achieve such large scale endeavors." The power of SGI's largest
global shared memory and globally addressable memory capabilities
has been adopted by a number of strategic customers for their
projects, including: -- Northrop Grumman Corporation recently added
two SGI Altix 4700 systems, each with 128 Intel(R) Itanium(R)
processors that leverages the unique memory-only blade design of
the Altix family of systems, and 5 TB of shared main memory.
Northrop Grumman now has a total of 11 TB of global shared memory
on SGI Altix systems at this secure site. -- At Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base, the Air Force Research Laboratory uses an SGI Altix
4700 system packed with 4,608 Intel Itanium processors in a single
supercomputer equipped with 20 TB of globally addressable memory
and 440 TB of usable disk space. Globally addressable memory means
applications can be shared across various operating systems via SGI
NUMAlink. One of the largest computers in the Department of
Defense, the SGI resource helps DoD researchers to design faster,
reduce risk by increasing the quality of modeling and simulation,
and support an intensifying effort to develop "game-changing"
computational science and engineering applications. The Air Force
Research Laboratory is part of the DoD's High Performance Computing
Modernization Program (HPCMP), which provides the supercomputer
services, high-speed network communications, and computational
science expertise that enables Army, Air Force, and Navy
laboratories and test centers to conduct a wide range of focused
research, development, and test activities. The DoD's SGI Altix
system offers major advantages to an array of projects, such as
computational fluid dynamics studies designed to reduce the risks
posed by turbulence on aircraft carrier decks. With access to more
power and memory from the Altix system, DoD researchers can more
quickly and accurately modify carrier designs that minimize the
ship's airwake - and with it, the danger to pilots. -- The Leibniz
Supercomputing Centre Munich (LRZ), which houses one of Germany's
National Supercomputer Systems, employs a record-breaking SGI Altix
4700 system. Starting in late 2006, the first Altix 4700
installation marked the completion of LRZ's Phase I deployment,
which incorporated 2,048 Intel Itanium processors with 17 TB of
globally addressable memory. The LRZ system operates all 4,096
processors as a unified platform that enables applications to
directly address all 17 TB of memory. In 2007, a 4,864 Intel
Itanium processor system at LRZ with slightly over 39 TB of
globally addressable memory completed Phase II. Available to
scientists in Germany and Europe, the SGI Altix system is hard at
work solving increasingly complex simulations in physics and
astrophysics, materials research, fluid dynamics, chemistry,
geosciences and biological sciences. "Intel has a successful track
record delivering highly reliable and scalable Itanium processors
enabling mission critical, data intensive solutions," said Susan
Tauzer, Director of Mission Critical Platform Marketing, Intel
Corporation. "SGI's Altix HPC system based on the Intel Itanium
architecture delivers an innovative tera-scale computing solution
for scientific research and business analytics." Additional
Information: -- For more information on SGI Altix systems with GSM
visit: http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/4000/ or
http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/memory.html -- SGI Altix
Global Shared Memory: Performance and Productivity Breakthroughs
for the SGI Altix 4000 Series and SGI Altix 450 (White Paper)
http://www.sgi.com/pdfs/3785.pdf -- At LRZ in Munich, a Massive New
SGI Supercomputer Ushers in a New Future for Scientists Throughout
Europe http://www.sgi.com/pdfs/4007.pdf -- U.S. Defense Computing
Capability Soars With Powerful New SGI Altix Supercomputer (Press
Release, February 26, 2007)
http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2007/february/defense.
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