High Performance Computing Whitepaper Library

SGI® Altix® ICE 8200: A New Era in High Performance Computing

SGI introduces the SGI® Altix® ICE platform, a high performance computing (HPC) system designed for the most demanding scale-out workloads. This innovative new product line from SGI is based on a new blade architecture specifi cally designed by SGI to meet the unique needs of the HPC market. SGI Altix ICE 8200, the fi rst product in this innovative new product line, forges a new approach to high performance computing (HPC).

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Picking Up the Pace of Life Sciences Discovery

Next Generation Acceleration Technology Speeds Research and Reduces Electrical Power Demands.

Genomics is the key to understanding how genes function and the roles they play and is at the heart of most biological and medical research today. From basic research to drug discovery, scientists increasingly are relying on computational analysis to speed up their genomics research. And given the competitive nature of this research in the life sciences, the need for speed is essential.

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SGI® Altix® XE: Addressing the Hidden Costs of Cluster-Based High Performance Computing

Clusters offer an economical approach to high performance computing (HPC). As such, they have been the main force driving the recent rapid expansion of HPC, with an installation growth rate of approximately 50% per year over the last fi ve years. The ongoing acceleration of higher performance for lower cost is reducing HPC cost-of-entry and helping to bring the benefi ts of parallel computing to an ever-greater range of applications and organizations.

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Nanotechnology Research:Enabling Technologies for Innovative NewMaterials

In the quest to develop new innovative products, researchers are increasingly relying on computational technologies to helpsimulate the properties of new materials. Ultimately, scientists engaged in materials research aim to develop new compounds that can predictably be applied to a product development program.

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A Multi-Workflow Architecture for High-Performance Computing

Rapid advancementsin technology continue to broaden the range of choices in the high-performance computing market:
•Clusters, blade servers, symmetric multi-processor (SMP) systems
•EPIC, proprietary RISC, x86 architectures
•Dual-core, quad-core, large cache architectures •FPGAs, vector processors

The market acceptance of open source software as a viable development platform has simplified application portability among various architectures, and thereby expanded the market reach for any one of these technology advancements.

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SGI® Altix® Server Platform: Innovation Leadership for Real World High-Performance Computing

The demand for high-performance computing (HPC) is at an all-time high, fueled by a combination of lower hardware costs and the need to develop ever greater compute capacity to solve real-world problems. As performance affordability has grown, HPC has expanded beyond the realm of technical and scientifi c computing to embrace a wide variety of business computing needs as well.

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Improving Scalability, Manageability, and Performance for Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Solutions

With many years of experience as an innovator of storage
solutions, SGI® recently introduced a new generation of NAS
solutions that overcome these complexities and cost barriers. The
SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS Family and SGI InfiniteStorage
Appliance Manager software make scalable, high-performance
NAS solutions available to a broad range of businesses and
organizations.

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Monitoring and Managing Data in High Performance Storage Solutions

SGI InfiniteStorage Appliance Manager is a Web-based interface that enables users to configure, manage and monitor the storage server to meet constantly accelerating data storage requirements. Developed for customers with demanding storage environments where ease of use in appliance management and immediate access to large amounts of data are required, SGI InfiniteStorage Appliance Manager works with SGI InfiniteStorage NAS solutions to optimize performance-driven applications.

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