SGI reveals the World’s Fastest Supercomputer, Altix UV

SGI a global leader in HPC and data center solutions introduces the World’s fastest Supercomputer named as Altix UV used for highly calculation-intensive tasks with far greater processing power is showcased at Supercomputing 2009 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon November 16-20, 2009. Altix UV is mainly focused to use in high-end supercomputing, very large-scale databases and data analytic environments.

When coming to its performance, Altix UV enables scaling from 32 to 2,048 cores with architectural provisioning for up to 262,144 cores, while the machine supports up to 16TB of global shared memory in a single system image (SSI). The Altix UV makes use of SGI high speed 15GB per second interconnect NUMAlink 5 and MPI Offload Engine (MOE).  With the system’s x86 architecture leverages quad, six or eight core Intel Xeon processors, codenamed “Nehalem-EX” lets the system to use Novell SUSE or Red Hat Linux operating systems.

Altix UV is available in two models, Altix UV 1000 and Altix UV 100. Altix UV 1000 offers maximum scalability and ships as a fully integrated cabinet-level solution with up to 256 sockets (2,048 cores) and 16TB of shared memory in four racks. Whereas the Altix UV 100 is a standard rack mount 3U system addresses the mid-range market scales up to 96 sockets (768 cores) and 6TB of shared memory in two racks.

“As a leading computing institution with the world’s first academic petaflop, the University of Tennessee is challenged with the task of solving some of the nation’s largest data understanding and visualization issues with funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF),” says Sean Ahern, director of the Center for Remote Data Analysis and Visualization.

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