SGI Scales Up Linux Servers
Altix 3000 family of servers can run Linux on up to 64 Itanium 2 chips and 512GB of memory within a cluster.
SGI wants to combine the flexibility of standards-based environments with the performance of supercomputing.
The Mountain View, Calif., company - formerly known as Silicon Graphics Inc. - on Tuesday is rolling out the SGI Altix 3000 family of servers and superclusters aimed at the technical computing space and powered by Intel Corp.'s 64-bit Itanium 2 chips and the Linux operating system.
The Altix 3000 series can run Linux on up to 64 Itanium 2 chips and 512GB of memory within a cluster, according to the company.
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