SGI Seizes Spotlight at SC|05 With Announcements Aimed at Accelerating Pace of Innovation in HPC Markets
November 15, 2005 09:04:13 (ET)
SC|05 - SEATTLE, Nov 15, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- At this annual convention of the world's most demanding technology users, Silicon Graphics (SGID, Trade) is offering attendees a glimpse of current solutions and future technologies that promise to extend SGI's long history of accelerating innovation in high-performance computing (HPC) markets. With an extensive array of announcements, demonstrations, booth presentations and conference sessions, SGI is poised to deliver a powerful and indelible presence at SC|05.
At SC|05, SGI (Booth No. 602) is launching a blade-based redesign of its flagship SGI(R) Altix(R) server family; unveiling the first commercially available native server-to-storage InfiniBand solution; driving a groundbreaking collaborative workflow demonstration with Intel Corp., demonstrating the potential of InfiniBand as a server-to-storage solution, and is participating in technical sessions and panels throughout the conference.
"SGI is a vital resource to customers across the high-performance marketplace," said Dave Parry, senior vice president and general manager, Server and Platform Group, SGI. "We're delivering key technologies and new capabilities that the leading scientists and engineers of the world will use to solve mankind's biggest challenges. From the debut of our powerful new server platform to showing that it's possible to showing on the SC|05 show floor that it is possible to collaborate factory-wide using a virtual recreation of an entire aircraft, SGI is proving that its vision for multi- paradigm computing is now a powerful and compelling reality."
SGI News at SC|05
SGI's news announcements cover a broad spectrum of HPC product lines and technologies, including these first two press releases of the week.
* Unveiled today, the new SGI(R) Altix(R) 4000 platform that combines
industry-standard components and the world's most powerful server
architecture in a highly dense and deployable blade-based form
factor. SGI has integrated its renowned scalable shared-memory
SGI(R) NUMAflex(TM) architecture with blade packaging to create the
first 64-bit Linux(R) server with a blade design that offers true
"plug and solve" flexibility. With the new systems, users can
readily configure any computing vision of a single platform
accommodating the needs of a broad range of applications. (See: SGI
Launches New Flagship Altix 4000 Platform)
* SGI today became the industry's first provider to offer a complete,
high-performance, server-to-storage native InfiniBand interconnect
solution. The new InfiniBand-based SGI(R) InfiniteStorage TP9700
system allows customers to leverage previous investments by
connecting storage to an existing InfiniBand-based cluster with
SGI's new commercially available native InfiniBand storage. (See:
SGI Unveils Industry's First Native Server-to-Storage InfiniBand
Solution)
* The University of Connecticut School of Engineering (Storrs Campus)
announced that SGI Altix systems will form the foundation of the new
Connecticut Institute for Supercomputing and Visualization. Earlier
this month, the University installed an SGI(R) Altix(R) 350 mid-
range server with 8GB of memory and 8 Intel(R) Itanium2(R)
processors will serve as a front-end to a 64-processor SGI(R)
Altix(R) 3700 Bx2 supercomputer configured with 64GB of memory. Both
systems will interact with an existing SGI visualization system and
SGI storage solution to accelerate studies in such wide-raging
fields as biomedical and metabolic engineering, fuel cells and
alternative energy, and parachute dynamics. (See: University of
Connecticut Selects SGI Altix as Foundation of New Institute for
Supercomputing and Visualization.
SC|05 Demonstrations
SGI is presenting compelling new technology demonstrations throughout the show floor.
* At SC|05, SGI is demonstrating with Intel Corp. a Boeing 777
collaborative workflow simulation driven by a 128-processor Silicon
Graphics Prism(TM) system with six graphics pipes and 256GB of
memory. Taking place in the SGI, Intel and Boeing booths, the demo
recreates a Boeing factory quality control scenario to show how
multiple technologies can combine to turn a time-consuming but
essential quality control process into a seamless exchange of
information and insight - even when participants are miles apart.
The unique demonstration also incorporates SGI OpenGL Vizserver(TM)
software ensuring all demo participants can access and interact on
demand with any part of a 60GB Boeing 777 model using laptops, or
virtually any type of computer.
* Attendees will be able to see the InfiniBand fabric in action at the
SGI booth. A demonstration will incorporate high-definition video
storage and visualization of geospatial data as it is shared between
two InfiniBand fabrics across thousands of miles -- from Seattle to
at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Maryland.
* In the SGI booth, SGI will debut its new Reconfigurable Application-
Specific Computing (RASC(TM)) technology capable of increasing the
performance of certain applications by hundreds of times over
conventional systems. Demonstrations based on RASC will include 4k
frame edge detection, real-time edge detection demo with video
capture and applications to speed-up financial analytics modeling
and help investigators accelerate their searches for criminal
activity.
* Also the SGI booth, customers will discuss breakthroughs they have
achieved using SGI's award-winning computing, visualization and
storage solutions -- all of which on display in the SGI booth.
SGI's presence at SC|05 involves close collaboration with the company's show sponsors: Altair Engineering, Inc., Christie Digital Systems, Inc., Engenio Information Technologies Inc., EXEGY Inc., Intel Corp., Micron Technology, Inc., Neterion Technologies, and TRIONIQ Inc.
BOF sessions at SC|05
As in past years, SGI is taking a leading role in hosting and participating in Birds of a Feather (BOF) technical sessions. These include:
* HPC Trends in the Automotive Industry. 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Wednesday,
Nov. 16, in Room 608-609. SGI's Christian Tanasescu will join Sharan
Kalwani from GM to discuss the automotive industry's use of HPC
technologies and the enormous opportunities for improvement.
* Open|SpeedShop: Multiplatform Open Source Performance Tool Status
and Availability. 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, in Room
615-616. Jim Galarowicz from SGI and Martin Schulz from Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory will discuss the current status of
Open|SpeedShop and the opportunities it presents to HPC application
developers and users.
* Leveraging Scalable HPC Architectures for Data-Intensive
Applications. 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, in Room 606-
607. Jill Matzke and Eric Fromm, both from SGI, will focus on some
of the unique issues associated with very large data applications
and what users are doing to handle these tough problems.
* User Experiences with the Silicon Graphics Prism. 5:15 to 6:45 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 15 in Room 6B. In this panel session, users of Silicon
Graphics Prism(TM) systems will discuss early experiences and
accomplishments using the innovative Linux-based visualization
environment. The session is organized by the Silicon Graphics
Worldwide User Group and is hosted by Gwen Pech, Faculty, BP Center
for Visualization at the University of Colorado, and SGIUG Director
of Visualization/Chair of the Visualization Special Interest Group,
along with Gary Jensen of SGIUG.
* Customer Experiences Using the SGI Altix. 5:15 to 6:45 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 16 in Room 611-614. Altix users in this BOF panel
will discuss the management of these systems for productivity and
uptime as well as the techniques they use to achieve efficient,
scalable performance for both throughput and capability workloads.
The panel will be hosted by Terry Hewitt, Head of Research
Computing, University of Manchester and Program Chair for the SGI
User Group, and Paul White, HPC Systems Manager Computer Services
for Academic Research, CSC Supercomputing, Farnborough, UK. and
Director for Altix and Linux at the SGI User Group.
* Shared-Memory Resources on the GRID. 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Tuesday,
Nov. 15, in Room 617. SGI's Michael Brown will chair this BOF
session with a number of speakers from major GRID facilities around
the world who will speak on their experience of including shared
memory compute resources in GRID installations.
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