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Altix ICE – Integrated Compute Environment

ICE is a high density integrated blade platform of chassis and blades that offers a revolutionary new approach to scale-out high performance computing, enables up to 512 cpu cores per rack, scales up to thousands of nodes.

System Highlights

• Purpose-built for High Performance Computing (HPC), used by NASA.
  
• Efficient blade architecture reduces complexity, minimizes downtime, and simplifies management.
  
• Integrated storage infrastructure, based on SGI InfiniteStorage high performance storage product line.
  
• Factory integrated, with SGI “Power Up & Go” design for easy deployment & immediate productivity.
  

Altix ICE achieves a new level of performance, density, and scalability for HPC scale-out applications. It allows easy set-up of the HPC data center, providing support for new levels of scale-out configurations in critical application areas like bioinformatics, media render farms, high-throughput CAE, and financial modelling.

Altix ICE provides breakthrough scalability, manageability, reliability, and price/performance without the compromises inherent in many traditional HPC systems. Altix ICE incorporates SGI’s innovative power and cooling solutions, for unprecedented efficiencies in the data center.

Key Features

• Cable-Free Blade Enclosures
  
• Integrated Switches
  
• High-speed, Low-latency InfiniBand interconnect
  
• High Power & Cooling Efficiency
  
• Additional Performance Innovations
  
• Manageable Scalability
  
• Water-cooled cabinets

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