Altix Servers By Silicon Graphics (SGI)

A complete line of scalable, high-performance servers, clusters and supercomputers.

The benefits of this architecture include:
Global Shared Memory -
• Up to 24 TB globally addressable memory
• All memory in system addressable by any processor
• Best message passing performance too
Users can do more and get results sooner. Entire databases such as MySQL can be driven directly out of memory. Hardware and software costs are lower. System administrators and users spend less time feeding and tuning the cluster. Developers have new flexibility to choose any programming model for application scalability. And it's all standards-based Linux. Read more about how SGI's customers and partners have already proven the benefits of Global Shared memory in a variety of industries.

SGI® NUMAlink™ Interconnect Fabric -
With microprocessors capable of over one billion calculations per second—less than one nanosecond per operation—fast memory access time is critical in achieving balanced, sustained performance on technical workloads. Data crosses over an SGI NUMAlink switch, round-trip, in as little as 50 nanoseconds—less time than it takes a beam of light to travel 50 feet—compared to 10,000 nanoseconds or more with many commodity clustering interconnects. Furthermore, SGI NUMAlink technology is the only interconnect that provides global shared memory between cluster nodes.