Revolutionary Platform Delivers New Levels of Performance ® ® SGI Altix 4700 and Flexibility with a Functional Blade Design SyStem HigHligHtS modular Blade Design for Superior Scalable System Size for Simplified Performance Density and ‘Plug and Solve’ Programming, easy Administration Unique modular blade Flexibility and Sustained Performance design for superior SGI® Altix® 4700 platform is comprised of modular SGI Altix 4700 platform incorporates the shared- performance blades - interchangeable compute, memory, I/O memory NUMAflex™ architecture, which simplifies density and ‘plug and solve’ and special purpose blades for ‘plug and solve’ software development, workload management flexibility configuration flexibility. The innovative blade-to- and system administration. It supports up to 512* NUMAlink™ architecture enables users to mix sockets or 1024 cores under one instance of Designed for future and match a variety of standardized blade choices, Linux and as much as 128TB of globally addressable upgrade, expansion and for perfect system right-sizing. The compact blade memory. Supporting these powerful capabilities integration packaging of the Altix 4700 rack also provides is the NUMAlink interconnect, which leads the of next-generation excellent performance density, delivering over industry in bandwidth and latency for superior technologies one teraflop per tall rack. SGI Altix 4700 is offered performance on cluster applications. The SGI with two alternate compute blades; one optimized Altix 4700 server represents a versatile solution for Scalable system size for for maximum performance with top memory shared or distributed memory applications of any scale. simplified programming, bandwidth and another optimized for cost-effective administration and compute density. Standards-Based Platform Reduces Cost sustained performance While Delivering Uncompromised Designed for Future Upgrade, expansion and Standards-based platform Performance on linux® Operating System integration of Next-generation technologies reduces cost while Like its predecessors, the SGI Altix 4700 platform delivering SGI Altix 4700 supports Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® has been designed specifically for technical users uncompromised Processors and offers easy upgrade or expansion based on industry standard CPUs, memory and I/O. performance on Linux® of memory, I/O or other capabilities. This flexible This infrastructure is supported by a complete HPC growth path makes it possible for customers to solution stack running on industry standard Linux® adjust system configurations to meet current and operating systems with the choice of Novell® SUSE® changing requirements easily and cost-effectively; LINUX Enterprise Server or Red Hat® Enterprise minimum risk for maximum productivity. Altix 4700 Linux® Advanced Server operating systems. SGI® also integrates SGI’s Peer I/O technology which ProPack™ software provides the tools and enabling enables high-speed access to SGI’s large shared applications to optimize performance for Altix systems. memory for all system components. Through peer I/O, SGI Altix 4700 is the first SGI platform designed to support new computing paradigms, such as reconfigurable computing, that will take over where Moore’s Law leaves off. ® ® SGI Altix 4700 www.sgi.com/servers Configuration Specifications Compute Blades: graphics Cards Software Development tools (cont) Density Configuration • 2D Card: ATI™ FireMV 2200 PCI Low Profi le, Max Open Source Development tools Two processor sockets per blade analog resolution 2048 x 1536, 64MB memory • Linuxapps, Freshmeat • Up to 78* Intel® Itanium® Processor sockets per • 3D Card: ATI FireGL V7350 PCI-E, Max digital FPgA Software Development tool rack resolution 3840 x 2400, 1GB memory • SGI’s FPGA-aware gdb • Dual Core Intel® Itanium® Series 9000 1.67GHz, 8, • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server • HLL tools: Mitrionics MitrionC, Celoxica Handel-C 18 or 24MB/667MHz FSB and DK Design Suite Sgi® RASC™ Blade • 8 DIMM slots per blade: 1GB, 2GB or 4GB DIMMs threading tools • Intel Thread Checker • Two high performance Xilinx Virtex 4 LX200 FPGA Bandwidth Configuration • Intel Threading Building Blocks chips with 160K logic cells One processor socket per blade • 10 QDR SRAM DIMMs per blade • Up to 39* Intel® Itanium® Processor sockets per Dimensions and Weight • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server rack individual Rack Unit (iRU) • Dual-Core Intel® Itanium® Series 9000 1.67GHz, 8, external Storage Options • Supports up to 10 blade slots 18 or 24MB/667MHz FSB • 10U (17.38”H x 17.5”W x 32.5”D) • 8 DIMM slots per blade: 1GB, 2GB or 4GB DIMMs JBOD • Maximum weight: 263 Lbs (119kg) • SGI® InfiniteStorage 120 memory-only Blade Standard Rack RAiD • Four IRU per rack • Adds to shared memory without cost of cpu and • SGI® InfiniteStorage 4000, 4500, 6700, 10000 • 42U (79.5”H x 25.8”W x 45.0”D) associated software licenses NAS and San Solutions • Maximum weight: 1450 lbs (668kg) • 12 DIMM slots per blade: 1GB, 2GB or 4GB DIMMs • SGI® InfiniteStorage 2000, 3000 • Lockable front and rear tape and libraries - many Options Available i/O Blades environmental (Non-Operating) Software Base i/O Blade temperature • Minimum of One Base I/O blade required for every Operating System • -40C to +60C (-40F to +140F) Linux instance/partition • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Humidity • Up to two hard drives - 300GB SAS • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server • 8% to 95%, non-condensing • Two low profile PCI-X slots • Optional SGI® ProPack™ on SUSE® Linux Enterprise Other • Supports 2D graphics card (details below) Server Complies with the EU ROHS regulation elimination of • Supports HW RAID 0,1 Host Storage Software toxic substances • One 4X SAS port, one DVD R/W, two Gigabit • XVM, XVM Ple, XVM Snapshot, XFS®, CXFS™, DMF, Ethernet, and four USB connectors environmental (Operating) Infi niteStorage Resource Manager • Double blade width - for use in blade slot 1 only Networking temperature PCi-X expansion Blade - 3 slot • TCP/IP, NFS V2/V3, DHCP, SNMP management, • 5C to +35C (41F to 95F), 0-5000ft (0-1524m)MSL • Three full 64-bit/133 MHz 3.3V PCI-X slot, hot plug SNMP MIB, NIS/ONC+ • 5C to +30C (41F to 86F), 5000-10000fy (1524- capable 3048m)MSL Software Development tools • Double blade width, for use in blade slots 1 only Humidity PCi-X expansion Blade - 2 slot Compilers • 5% to 90%, non-condensing • Two full 64-bit/133 MHz 3.3V PCI-X slot hot-plug • Intel C++ and Fortran Compilers for Linux • Maximum humidity gradient 10% per hour capable • GNU Compiler for C and Fortran 77 electrical and Power • Single blade width libraries • Hot plug, redundant power • SGI Message Passing Toolkit (MPT) PCi-express i/O Blade - 2 slot • 200 to 240 VAC, 50/60 Hz, single phase • Intel MPI and Math Kernel Libraries • Two full PCI-Express slots • Up to four 30 amp circuits per rack • SGI Flexible File Input/Output (FFIO) • Supports 2 standard height PCIe cards at 16X • 21.02 kVA/20.60 kW peak per fully configured rack • Intel Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel IPP) speeds. • 20.60 kW/70.29 kBTU peak per fully configured Debuggers • Supports 3D graphics card options (details below) rack • Intel Debugger • Single blade width Support and Services • Etnus® TotalView® PCi-X + PCi-express i/O Blade - 4 slot • GNU GDB • Two 64-bit/133 MHz 3.3V PCI-X slots SGI offers full support for Altix 4700 hardware • Allinea Software Distributed Debugging Tool (DDT) • Two full 16x PCI-Express Slots and system software. SGI also offers services to Analysis tools • Double blade width - for use in blade slot 1 only implement and integrate Linux applications in • Intel VTune™ Performance Analyzer your environment. For more information, please • Intel Trace Analyzer and Intel Trace Collector contact your SGI representative. • SGI Performance Co-Pilot™ * RedHat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 4 support is Parallelization tools limited to 128 cpu cores and 1TB of memory. RedHat • MPI: SGI MPT, Intel MPI Library Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 5 support is limited to • OpenMP: OpenMP included w/Intel compilers 128 sockets and 1TB GB of memory. • Parallel Software Products ParaWise Corporate Office North America +1 800.800.7441 46600 Landing Parkway Latin America +55 11.5185.2860 Fremont, CA 94538 Europe +44 118.912.7500 tel 510.933.8300 Japan +81 3.5488.1811 fax 408.321.0293 Asia Pacific +61 2.9448.1463 www.sgi.com © 2009 Silicon Graphics International Corp. All rights reserved. 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