® ® Clusters that Work: SGI Altix XE Servers Fast, Efficient, Cost and Clusters Effective Delivering Breakthrough Cluster Flexibility, Performance and Value KEY FEATURES Advanced Cluster Platform Provides Top Performance for Enhanced Productivity SGI Altix XE servers and clusters deliver top value and Top performance performance, based on the winning combination of ® with Intel the latest Intel®Xeon®Processor 5500 series-based ® Xeon Processors architecture and SGI expertise in designing and delivering the most advanced performance computing Flexible packaging systems on the market today. The SGI Altix XE systems support up to 144GB of memory per node, with options for Breakthrough Value with Low Total Cost of and an ultra-dense architecture that packs up to six- maximum Ownership (TCO) teen cores in a slim 1U form factor. Add to this extensibility With a choice of packaging options to optimally match support for up to 40 Gb/sec (QDR) InfiniBand, quad- processing and budgetary requirements, the SGI Altix or advanced core processors, DDR3 memory, and an option to XE product family deliverslow total cost of ownership. compute drive clusters with an Altix XE270 or XE500 head An innovative board design that maximizes cluster density node for advanced extensibility, redundancy, compute density helps to optimize data center space reliability, and I/O rich-features—and you have the and power-related expense, while reducing the cost most powerful cluster solutions available. of interconnect cabling and cards. Fewer cards and Superior TCO, cables in turn enhance overall cluster reliability, optimized for delivering breakthrough customer value. Flexible Packaging to Optimally Address Needs efficiency and SGI Altix XE clusters are available in a choice of performance density Factory Integrated Clusters Simplify Deployment packages, designed to optimally meet diverse SGI Altix XE clusters can be customized to support the customer needs. SGI Altix XE340 compute nodes full spectrum of customer requirements, and are fully Easy to build and deliver ultimate cluster density, packing two eight integrated and tested at the factory prior to shipment core nodes into a slim 1U form factor. The powerful deploy with making them ready-to-deploy upon delivery. The SGI Altix XE270 and XE500 are an ideal cluster head custom- Altix XE cluster solution offers customers industry- node or stand-alone departmental server, offering configurable, leading software tools for cluster and workload additional extensibility and I/O options. SGI Altix XE factory integrated management, and comes pre-loaded and tested so servers run industry-standard operating systems, with clusters that clusters are delivered “ready to go”. SGI Altix XE a choice of SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server, Red Hat® clusters are backed by SGI world-class customer Enterprise Linux®, and Microsoft® Windows® HPC support organization, and a full 3-year warranty. Server 2008. In addition, the SGI® ProPack™ 6 for Linux® OS includes resource management tools and enhanced development libraries like Flexible File Input/Output (FFIO) which provides programmers with fine-grained control of I/O transfers to maximize performance. www.sgi.com/servers SGI Altix XE Servers and Clusters SGI® Altix® XE270 SGI® Altix® XE340 SGI® Altix® XE500 Node Type Head or Compute Compute (2 nodes per XE340 Head or Compute chassis) Rack Units 2U 1U 3U Processors • Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 • Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 • Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series series series Memory • Choice of up to 18 DDR3 DIMMs • Choice of up to 12 DDR3 DIMMs • Choice of up to 18 DDR3 DIMMs (2GB, 4GB, or 8GB DIMMs) per node (2GB, 4GB, or 8GB (2GB, 4GB, or 8GB DIMMs) DIMMs) PCI Slots • 2 x PCIe x8 gen 2 (low profile) • 2 x PCIe x16 Gen2 (1 per node) • 2 x PCIe x16 gen2 (full height) • 1 x PCIe x4 gen 1 (low profile) - low profile • 4 x PCIe x8 gen2 (full height) • 2 x PCI-x 133/100 (low profile) Integrated I/O • 2 x COM ports • 2 x InfiniBand ports (1 per node), • 1x BMC port • 1 x VGA optional • 2 x COM ports • 2 x Gigabit Ethernet • 2 x COM ports (1 per node) • 1 x VGA • 4 x USB ports • 2 x VGA (1 per node) • 2 x Gigabit Ethernet • 2 x PS/2 ports • 4 x Gigabit Ethernet (2 per node) • 6 x USB ports • 1x BMC port • 4 x USB ports (2 per node) • 2 x PS/2 ports • 2x BMC ports (1 per node) • 1 x Mic • 5 x Audio Internal Storage • Eight SATA or SAS drive bays • Four SATA drive bays (2 per • Eight SATA or SAS drives with with optional hardware RAID node) with optional SAS and optional hardware RAID (0, 1, 5, 6, 10) hardware RAID0, 1 (0, 1, 5, 6, 10) • 3.5” SATA drives: 250GB, 500GB, • 3.5” SATA drives: 250GB, 500GB, • 3.5” SATA drives: 250GB, 500GB, 750GB, 1000GB 750GB, 1000GB 750GB, 1000GB • 3.5” SAS drives: 146GB, 300GB, • 3.5” SAS drives: 146GB, 300GB, • 3.5” SAS drives: 146GB, 300GB, 450GB 450GB 450GB • 8TB maximum storage • 4TB maximum storage (2TB per • 8TB maximum storage • Optional DVD R/W node) • Optional DVD R/W System Software • SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server 10 (and 11*) • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 4** and 5 • Microsoft® Windows® HPC Server 2008* • SGI ProPack™ 6 for Linux® * not available at MR ** XE340Gige, XE270 and XE500 stand alone systems only Software Solution • Cluster Management Software: SGI ISLE (TM) Cluster Manager: Platform™ Manager Stack • Job Scheduling/ Workload Management: Altair® PBS Professional™ • Fabric Management: SGI InfiniBand Fabric Management (based on OFED) • Filesystem: XFS™ 64-bit journaledfilesystem (avail. on SUSE Linux OS), CXFS™ shared filesystem for SANs • Network File System: Samba, NFS Development • Programming Languages: Intel C++ Compiler, Intel Fortran Compiler, GNU compilers Tools • Debuggers: Intel Debugger (idb) included w/Intel compilers, GNU gdb, TotalView Technologies TotalViewDebugger TotalView Technologies MemoryScape, Allinea DDT, Intel Thread Checker • Libraries: Intel Math Kernel Library, Intel Integrated Performance Primitives, Intel Threading Building Blocks • Parallel Programming: SGI Message Passing Toolkit, SGI Array Services and Secure Array Services, Intel MPI Library, Platform MPI, OpenMP included w/Intel compilers, OpenMPI, Intel Cluster OpenMP, Intel Trace Analyzer and Collector, TotalView Technologies TotalView Debugger, Allinea DDT, Interactive Supercomputing Star-P • Performance Analysis: Intel VTune Performance Analyzer, Intel Trace Analyzer & Collector Support SGI provides support for hardware and systems software. 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