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New SGI High-Productivity, High-Density System Makes Supercomputing More Deployable
New Model of SGI Origin 3000 Supercomputer Quadruples Capacity and Capability Per Square Foot
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SGI (NYSE: SGI - News) today announced the SGI® Origin® 3900 server, the newest model of the SGI® Origin® 3000 supercomputer family that packs four times the computational density of previous configurations into a single industry-standard rack. Supercomputing is entering a renaissance period in addressing the evolved needs of users confronting escalating complexity and the necessity for improved productivity and increased collaboration. The new SGI® supercomputer model provides customers with the performance, flexibility and deployability to meet these new challenges. SGI Origin 3900 demonstrates a breakthrough in delivering both capacity with extraordinary system density and capability with enhanced development tools for high productivity mission- and business-critical environments. These attributes are specifically targeted to meet needs in the energy, government and defense, manufacturing, and sciences industries.
SGI Origin 3900 is the first of many strategic product and technology developments the company will announce over the coming weeks and months as part of its expanded high-performance computing (HPC) strategy. The company will debut the new high-density configurations at the HPC industry's biggest event, the Supercomputing 2002 trade show (SC2002), in Baltimore, Md., Nov. 19-21, 2002. (Booth #1521)
Innovative Design Sets New Standard
Demonstrating an innovative breakthrough for the SGI Origin 3000 family, SGI Origin 3900 delivers up to four times the computational density of previous configurations-and four times that of 64-bit systems from Hewlett-Packard and IBM. The Origin 3900 system can readily scale to 512 processors and 1TB of memory in racks that combine up to 128 processors and 256GB of memory per rack.
Additionally, the new system radically increases the amount of memory and data available per processor at any given time by allowing users to maximize the memory and bandwidth scalability within a rack without the need to add additional processors.
"This is rack-for-rack the most powerful system in the world. The innovative design of this new system feeds a renaissance that is taking place in the supercomputing industry," said Jan Silverman, senior vice president, Global Marketing, SGI. "Our customers require more than raw CPU megahertz speed improvements. They need balanced capacity and capability systems that are designed for the data-intensive, complex environments in which they work. SGI Origin 3900 was designed for just this purpose. For instance, for less than half the price of an IBM p690 the SGI system has four times the density and supports shared memory to 512 processors rather than the maximum of thirty-two on the p690 system."
The HPC Renaissance-The Quest for Productivity
SGI's goal is to continue to deliver high-productivity computing tools that focus on shorter time to solution, not unsustainable theoretical peak performance. The HPC industry is entering a time when the top priority is shifting from theoretical to balanced performance and productivity.
The new SGI system design directly addresses the changing needs of the HPC industry. "SGI has stepped up to lead the industry through this time of change, drawing upon its rich legacy of 20 years of innovative products and dedicated support of the HPC technical and scientific user community," added Silverman.
Do More
SGI Origin 3900 will enable customers to "do more" with its unique SGI® NUMAflex(TM) shared-memory architecture and optimized operating and development environment.
SGI NUMAflex shared-memory architecture delivers extremely high bandwidth and low latency, scales to thousands of processors, and maintains balanced performance regardless of the configuration. The shared-memory capabilities of NUMAflex allow users to create and analyze extremely large data models without having to artificially decompose them into smaller bits.
Additionally, users are able to add new components and take advantage of new technologies that meet their unique business and application requirements without significant reconfiguration or reprogramming. The new SGI Origin 3900 system utilizes the powerful combination of the MIPS® processor and the SGI® IRIX® 64-bit operating system and is fully compatible with the SGI Origin 3000 series product line.
SGI also announced today the IRGO(TM) HPC workflow-optimization features of the IRIX operating system to help developers compile and optimize high-productivity application solutions for mission-critical and business-critical technical compute environments. IRGO provides tools for run-time optimization, development optimization and workflow security, enabling the creation of highly efficient code in a secure environment. (See separate release dated November 11, 2002.)
Benefits across Multiple Industries
SGI designed its scalable, high-performance SGI Origin 3900 supercomputer to enable innovations in the sciences, manufacturing, defense and intelligence, and energy industries. Some of benefits to technical and scientific professionals include:
-- Sciences: The SGI Origin 3900 delivers more computing capability to scientific research programs, making it possible to increase the accuracy of computational chemistry calculations and to improve the throughput capacity of high-volume genomics analyses. More compact and more powerful than its predecessors, the SGI Origin 3900 easily manages the growing data sets and increased application scalability requirements of life sciences research.
-- Manufacturing: For design and engineering professionals, the SGI Origin 3000 series with its NUMAflex shared-memory architecture delivers balanced, scalable performance to support the most rigorous system resource demands of MCAE applications such as computational fluid dynamics and finite element structural analysis related to product design and development.
-- Defense and intelligence: Packing greater computational performance into a more compact design provides more deployable and powerful mobile installations for command and control centers, submarines, and cockpits where there are strict physical space constraints.
-- Energy: SGI Origin 3900 can be configured to load very large 3D data (seismic volumes or reservoir models) into memory for depth imaging, visualization and reservoir simulation for determining reservoir structure and fluid flow.
Marathon Oil is among the first of SGI customers to purchase the new SGI Origin 3000. The company intends to use a 128-processor SGI Origin 3900 system with 64GB of memory for seismic imaging, a data processing technique that increases success rates for oil well drilling and production. The system was purchased to augment the company's existing SGI infrastructure because of system reliability and confidence that old and new CPU-intensive tasks would run beginning from day one of installation.
Pricing and Availability
The SGI Origin 3900 supercomputer is available immediately through SGI worldwide sales offices and authorized Channel partners. Systems range from the base configuration of four processors and 4GB of memory to 512 processors and 1TB of memory in a single system image. The US list price for a 128-processor supercomputer with 64GB of memory is $2,937,696.
The new high-density configurations are also available for SGI® Onyx® 3000 series visualization systems with either InfiniteReality® or InfinitePerformance(TM) graphics. For more information on the new SGI Origin 3900 supercomputer or other SGI products, services or solutions visit the Web site at www.sgi.com.
This news release contains forward-looking statements regarding the SGI Origin 3900 supercomputer that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in such statements. The reader is cautioned not to rely unduly on these forward-looking statements, which are not a guarantee of future performance. Such risks and uncertainties include the timely production of the SGI Origin 3900 supercomputer in sufficient volume to meet demand; the impact of competitive markets, products and pricing; the acceptance of applicable technologies by markets and customers; the ability of the company to manage a complex set of engineering, marketing and distribution relationships; and other risks detailed from time to time in the company's most recent SEC reports, including its reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q...
Source: SGI
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