SGI, a provider of HPC and data centre offerings, has developed a hybrid computing platform, which it claims to leverage open software architecture and deliver a petaflop of performance within a single cabinet.
The company said that the new platform was designed to address the growing science and engineering technical markets that rely on high-end software. It offers GPU processing capabilities from Nvidia and ATI, as well as accelerator-based technology from Tilera, and other peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) based offerings.
Separately, the company also shipped the first complete systems of Altix UV 1000, which delivers scalability with up to 2,048 cores with architectural provisioning for up to 262,144 cores and supports up to 16 terabytes (TB) of shared memory in a single system image (SSI).
The Altix UV leverages SGI’s 15GB per second interconnect, NUMAlink 5, and MPI Offload Engine (MOE) acceleration and is suitable for open source, enterprise databases, and custom and commercial HPC applications, along with cyber security workloads, scalable I/O and data analytics, the company said.
The Altix UV is built on open standard technologies from Intel Xeon to Linux, and system’s x86 architecture incorporates the Intel Xeon series 7500 processors, Red Hat Linux operating systems and supports Novell SUSE.
Mark Barrenechea, CEO of SGI, said: “These shipments of Altix UV are a major milestone for our customers and SGI. The Altix UV platform is transformative to how customers can deploy the next generation of computing for the world’s most demanding work loads, including traditional HPC, databases, I/O and cyber security.”
