SGI® Altix® 3700 Bx2 Servers and Supercomputers Highly Scalable Linux Systems for Demanding Technical Applications Features Breakthrough Performance and Scalability in a Standards-based Environment For technical users seeking breakthrough performance with open-source computing, SGI • Breakthrough performance and scalability in a Altix 3700 Bx2 combines the cost-effectiveness of clusters with the scalable performance standards-based environment and big data capabilities of a supercomputer. SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 servers and supercom- • Large global shared memory supports demanding puters provide significant advantages in performance and capability over traditional Linux HPC applications with massive data sets clusters, scaling to thousands of Intel Itanium 2 processors and providing up to terabytes • Built-in NUMAlink™ interconnect enables sustained of shared memory even across cluster nodes. performance on HPC applications • Flexible, high-density packaging with true expand- Large Global Shared Memory Supports Demanding HPC Applications with Big on-demand upgrade capabilities Data Sets ® • The latest, most powerful Itanium 2 processors The SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 supercomputer’s high-performance NUMAflex™ architecture was from Intel designed to tackle demanding HPC workloads with massive data sets. Individual nodes ® • Complete Linux solution for HPC, including tools, can scale up to 256 processors and 3TB of memory in a single system image, and SGI Altix supercomputers support shared memory even across cluster nodes. Users can take data management, and visualization advantage of up to 24TB of global shared memory space to operate on their multi-terabyte data sets entirely in shared memory. This can provide dramatic application performance improvements, along with substantial cost savings through simplified programming and easy system administration. Built-in NUMAlink Interconnect and New I/O Technology Enables Sustained Performance on HPC Applications ® The high-bandwidth SGI NUMAlink™ interconnect moves instructions and data between processors and cluster nodes up to 200 times faster than commodity cluster interconnects. Data crosses over an SGI NUMAlink switch, round-trip, in as little as 50 nanoseconds – faster than most clusters’ local memory access time. The SGI NUMAlink interconnect enables balanced, sustained application performance on technical workloads. Altix Bx2 also introduces Peer I/O – direct high-speed I/O connection to Altix NUMAlink fabric - enabling breakthrough I/O performance. Flexible, High-density Packaging with Expand-on-demand Upgrade Capabilities Altix offers flexibility for a wide range of HPC workloads through both shared and distributed programming models. With single system image node sizes from 8 to 256 processors, along with the ability to support shared memory across cluster nodes, the configuration can be scaled for any HPC application. The unique “expand on demand” capability allows I/O and memory to be scaled independently of processors, so that users can precisely tune their system resources for specific application portfolios, and adjust them cost-effectively as their needs change. And Altix Bx2 brings new high density packaging that accommodates up to 64 processors in a rack. Complete Linux Solution for HPC, Including Tools, Data Management and Visualization SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 servers and supercomputers run a robust, industry-standard 64-bit Linux environment that is fully optimized to deliver outstanding performance on HPC applications. A complete set of development and run-time tools support superior data handling, application optimization, system administration, and resource management. SGI Altix Bx2 also works with a wide array of storage hardware and software solutions including CXFS™, SGI’s heterogenous clustered filesystem. This, combined with SGI’s new Linux OS-based visualization solution comprises the industry’s most powerful 64 bit Linux HPC solution. SGI® Altix® 3700 Bx2 Servers and Supercomputers Configurations – Number of buses: 4 Environmental (Non-operating) • Processors: 16 to 2048 total; 8 to 256 per node – Number of slots: 6 (2/bus) full length; max. 1/bus • Temperature: -40°C to +60°C • Memory: 12GB to 24TB for 133 MHz PCI-X cards • Humidity: 10% to 95% noncondensing • XIO I/O Channels: 2 to 512 • Altitude: 40,000 MSL JBOD Disk Expansion Module (D-Brick2) NUMAflex 8-Port Router Interconnect Module • Interface: 66MHz/2Gb or 133MHz/2Gb Fire Channel Electrical and Power (R-Brick) • Drive bays: 16 hot-plug, 3.5” slots with 110/220V • Voltage • Router brick: Enables large shared-memory configu- power; redundant power supplies standard – 180-254 VAC, single phase; rations above 64 processors, up to thousands of • Maximum bandwidth: 200MB/sec peak – 180-254 VAC, 3 phase (North America/Japan); processors • Drive options – 360-440 VAC, 3 phase (International) Note: Integrated router in compute module (CR-Brick) – 36GB (15K RPM) enables shared-memory configurations from 8 to 64 – 73GB (15K RPM) Power and Heat processors – 146GB (10K RPM) drive options • System rack (max. per rack): 12.19 kw/41.59 kBtu Compute Module with 8P and up to 96GB External Storage Options • I/O rack (max. per rack): Memory (CR-Brick) • HBA interfaces: 2Gb Fibre Channel, 200MB/sec 2.14 kw/7.30 kBtu • Processor options: peak bandwidth Ultra 320 SCSI, 320 MB/sec peak – 1.3 GHz Intel Itanium 2 with 3MB on-chip cache bandwidth, Gigabit Ethernet copper and optical Software ® – 1.5 GHz Intel Itanium 2 with 6MB on-chip cache • JBOD: SGI TP900 (Ultra320 SCSI) D-brick2 (2Gb • System software: ® – 1.5 GHz Intel Itanium 2 with 4MB on-chip cache Fibre Channel) – SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 or 10 from ® – 1.6 GHz Intel Itanium 2 with 6MB on-chip cache RAID: SGI TP9100 (2Gb Fibre Channel) Novell, with ProPack 4 or 5 respectively ® – 1.6 GHz Intel Itanium 2 with 9MB on-chip cache SGI TP9300 (2Gb Fibre Channel) – Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 or v.5* ® • Memory: up to 96GB DDR ECC SGI TP9300 (Serial ATA) • Networking: ® Memory options: SGI TP9500 (2Gb Fibre Channel) TCP/IP, NFS V2/V3, DHCP, SNMP management, ® – PC2700 166GHz, 512MB DIMMs SGI TP9500S (Serial ATA) SNMP MIB, NIS/ONC+ – PC2700 166MHz, 1GB DIMMs • Data servers: • Available server software: ® ® – PC 2100 133MHz, 2GB DIMMs – SGI NAS 2000 & 3000 (Gigabit Ethernet) XFS 64-bit journaled filesystem, XVM Volume Memory kits: 4GB, 8GB and 16GB – SGI SAN Server™ 2000 & 3000 (2Gb Fibre Manager (Plexing & Snap shot options), CXFS • Memory controller: 5-port crossbar per node board Channel) shared filesystem, Performance Co-Pilot™ system ® ® – SGI DLM Server (NAS or SAN attach) and network monitoring, SGI Cluster Manager for Memory Expansion Module with up to 96GB • Tape and libraries: Linux, DMF, TMF ® memory (M-Brick) – StorageTek L20, L40, L80, L180, L700, L5500, • Compilers: ® ® ® ® ® ® • Memory: up to 96GB DDR ECC 9310. ADIC Scalar 24, Scalar 100, Scalar Intel Itanium Processor Family compilers: C/C++, ® ® Memory kits: 4GB, 8GB and 16GB 1000, and Scalar 10000 Libraries. StorageTek Fortran; ® • Memory controller: 5-port crossbar per node board T9840B, T9940B, IBM 3560, LTO, SDLT, and GNU compilers: C, Fortran 77 AIT Tape Drives • Tools: Base System I/O Module with PCI-X (IX-Brick) – Libraries: MPT, Array Services, CPU sets, SCSL, ® • Ports: Power Bay FFIO, and Intel Math Kernel Library ® ® ® – 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet port, Four RS-232/ • Power requirements: 220-240 VAC external source – Debuggers: Etnus TotalView , Intel idb, GNU RS0422 serial ports • Power distribution: 48 VDC internally distributed to gdb (with Fortran extensions) ® ® • Internal devices: all bricks – Performance analysis: Intel VTune™, Intel ® ® – 1 system disk standard, optional redundant Trace Analyzer, Intel Trace Collector, SGI Histx system disk, DVD-ROM (LDE) Dimensions and Weights – System analysis: pfmon , Performance Co-Pilot • Disk interface: • System rack: • Interoperability: ® – Serial ATA – 75” H, 53” D, 30” W; 40U internal usable space; Samba environments for PC • I/O Interface: 1,375 lbs. max. • Partitioning: – 5 64-bit/133 MHz PCI-X buses with 11 available • I/O rack: Support for system partitioning for systems up to slots, 1 64-bit/66MHz PCI slot – 75” H, 53” D, 30” W; 40U internal usable space; 512P with maximum partition size 256P 1,225 lbs. max. PCI-X Expansion Module (PX-Brick; PA-Brick) • RAID/JBOD rack: Support and Services • PX-Brick: – 75” H, 31” D, 24” W; 38U internal usable space; SGI also offers appropriate services to implement – Interface:64-bit/133 MHz PCI-X buses, 3.3V 1,265 lbs. max. and integrate Linux applications in your environment. and Universal 64-bit/66 MHz PCI-compatible For more information on available services, please – Number of buses: 6 Environmental (Operating) see www.sgi.com/support – Number of slots: 12 (2/bus) full length; max. 1/bus • Temperature: +5°C to +35°C, altitude 5,000 MSL for 133 MHz PCI-X cards +5°C to +30°C, altitude 10,000 MSL • PA-Brick: Peer I/O Capability • Humidity: 10% to 90% noncondensing – Interface: 64-bit/133 MHz PCI-X buses, 3.3V and Universal 64-bit/66 MHz PCI-compatible *Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.4 is certified on SGI systems at 64 CPU cores and 128GB of memory Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.5 planned certification for SGI systems at 64 CPU cores and 128GB of memory Corporate Office North America +1 800.800.7441 1140 E. 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