Scalable Computing for ® ® Breakthrough SGI Altix ICE Performance Key Features Designed with Processing Efficiency in Mind The SGI Altix ICE blade system was designed from Purpose-built for data- the ground up to minimize system overhead and intensive computing communication bottlenecks that can rob efficiency and scalability, especially for data intensive Integrated visualization and ® workflows. Altix ICE combines the powerful Intel storage Infrastructure ® Xeon processor 5600 series architecture with a unique board and interconnect design. It delivers Efficient blade architecture up to 768 processor cores in a single rack, easily reduces complexity, “Power Up & Go” with Altix ICE scaling to thousands of nodes to address the most minimizes downtime and Altix ICE delivers 9.0 teraflops of compute power challenging compute problems. simplifies management per rack for an immediate boost in processing With the flexibility to optimize for sheer performance and productivity. Elegantly Factory integrated SGI performance or price/performance, Altix ICE integrating blades, switches, interconnects and “power up & go” design delivers breakthrough value by precisely storage, Altix ICE systems are easy to build and for rapid deployment and addressing customer needs—today and tomorrow. manage. Altix ICE ships with a comprehensive immediate productivity ® software stack, including the SGI Tempo systems ® Across the Board Efficiency with Maximum management tool and SGI ProPack™ to enhance Uptime and Simplified Usage application efficiency and software development. Altix ICE raises the bar for TCO value in a platform Altix ICE sets a new standard for simplicity and designed to drive power and cooling efficiency ease of use in the world of scale-out computing. and advanced reliability, easily addressing the demanding requirements of today’s data Designed to Address the Growing Data center. The system leverages SGI’s field-proven Intensive Pain Point innovation in cable reduction and power and With 25+ years of solving the worlds most data cooling technology to virtually eliminate cables, intensive computing and visualization problems, wasted space and energy loss. This approach SGI imparts that DNA into the complete range reduces power and cooling requirements and of SGI high-performance server and storage overall system cost. For enhanced reliability and solutions, along with industry-leading professional availability, Altix ICE is based on a diskless blade services and support. This enables customers to design with rack-level redundant power and efficiently overcome the challenges of complex cooling. The result is a system with unmatched data intensive workflows and accelerate time to reliability, efficiency, performance and overall results. value. SGI Altix ICE Configuration Specifications www.sgi.com/servers Compute Blades IP-83 IP-85 IP-95 Processors • Intel® Xeon® 5200 Series • Intel® Xeon® 5200 Series • Intel® Xeon® 5500 Series • Intel® Xeon® 5400 Series • Intel® Xeon® 5400 Series • Intel® Xeon® 5600 Series Memory/IO • 8 fully buffered memory DIMM slots per blade • 16 fully buffered memory DIMM slots per blade • 12 DDR3 DIMM slots per blade • 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB 800MHz DIMMs • 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB 800MHz DIMMs • 2GB, 4GB, 8GB 1066MHz and 1333MHz DIMMs • Low profile PCIE x16 networking slot Blade Enclosures ICE 8200LX ICE 8200EX Interconnect • Two 20Gb/sec InfiniBand switch blades, one high performance plane • Four 20Gb/sec InfiniBand switch blades, two high performance planes • Standard hypercube, enhanced hypercube or fat tree topology • Standard hypercube, enhanced hypercube or fat tree topology • Dedicated Gigabit Ethernet administrative network, chassis management controller • Dedicated Gigabit Ethernet administrative network, chassis management controller Power and Cooling • 5+1 redundant 1625W 12V DC output front-end power supplies • 7+1 redundant 175mm blowers Storage High-performance IPoIB InfiniteStorage servers and high-performance file serving solutions over InfiniBand Racks 42U (30”W x 40”D) Rack • Each rack supports up to four blade enclosures, each with up to 16 dual-socket compute blades accommodating up to 128 sockets (768) cores per rack • Standard 19” racks also supported, each with up to two blade enclosures and 10U of extra space for storage • Cooling: Air (standard) or water (optional) Hierarchical Controller Tier 1: System Administration Controller Tier 2: Rack Leader Controller (RLC) Tier 3: Chassis Management Controller (CMC) Management Framework (HMF) Controllers • One per Altix ICE system • Minimum one per rack node and via IB to two blade • One per blade enclosures • Provisions out software to RLC enclosures • Controls master power to all compute nodes • Pulls aggregated cluster management data from • Holds blade boot images • Monitors power and blade enclosure environment RLC • Runs fabric management software • Aggregates cluster management data for rack Service Nodes • Login Service Node (minimum one per system) • Gateway Service Node • Batch Service Node • Storage Service Node (may be used to satisfy login service node minimum requirement) • GPU (optional): NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 3800/4800/5800 and NVIDIA® Tesla™ C1060 System Software Operating Systems • SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 10 • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 5 ® Cluster Solution Stack • Optimized drivers and system monitoring: SGI Foundation Software • Cluster management software: SGI Tempo or Platform™ Manager • Optimized system and application performance: SGI ProPack™ 6 for Linux® • Job scheduling and workload management: Altair® PBS Professional™ • Fabric manager: SGI InfiniBand Fabric Manager with OpenSM • InfiniBand host stack: SGI OFED 1.4 Software Development Programming Languages • C & C++: Intel C++ Compiler, GNU GCC • Intel® VTune Performance Analyzer and Debuggers • Fortran: Intel Fortran Compilers (Fortran 95), GNU GCC (Fortran77) • Intel® Trace Analyzer & Collector • Debuggers: Intel Debugger included with Intel compilers, GNU GDB • Interactive Supercomputing Star-P® • TotalView Debugger and MemoryScape Memory Debugger • Intel® Thread Checker Libraries • Intel® Math Kernel Library • Platform MPI • Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives • OpenMP included with Intel compilers • Intel® Threading Building Blocks • SGI Message Passing Toolkit • Intel® MPI Library 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 Asia Pacific +61 2.9448.1463 fax 408.321.0293 www.sgi.com © 2009–2010 Silicon Graphics International Corp. 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