Monday, March 28, 2011

SGI Altix UV: 256 Xeon in a server

The race for server density has reached a new milestone: the SGI Altix UV1000 can earn 256 Intel Xeon 7500 or a maximum of 2048 physical hearts. These CPUs are mounted in 128 dual-processor blades in 4 cabinets. They provide a theoretical power aggregated $ 18.5 TFlops. SGI associate them to 16 TB of RAM and up to 16 hard drives 2.5 "SAS (1.2 TB maximum).

SGI is proud to compare its Altix 1000 UV competitive offerings from HP or IBM servers, HP x86 embark up to 64 CPUs, IBM's 96.

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