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http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2007/june/altix_ice.html

Next-Generation Platform Keeps Data Centers Running Cool Without Compromising Performance, Price and Scalability

SUNNYVALE, Calif. (June 26, 2007)—SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) today unveiled SGI® Altix® ICE, a next-generation platform that brings all the advantages of the company’s expertise in high-performance computing (HPC) to a tightly integrated, cool-running blade solution. Designed by SGI to close the growing gap between performance and user productivity, SGI® Altix® ICE 8200 is the first in a new line of bladed servers purpose-built to handle true HPC applications and large scale-out workloads.

Even as it accommodates larger and more varied workloads, SGI Altix ICE doesn’t force users to accept compromises in price/performance, power and space efficiency, reliability and manageability. In fact, many of the platform’s advantages — including price/performance — actually improve as customers add blades and racks.
SGI Altix ICE enables large scale-out environments while minimizing their demands on the data center’s space and power. Its ultra-dense rack architecture delivers up to 40 percent more compute performance per floor tile than competing blades. A single SGI Altix ICE 8200 rack can be powered by as many as 512 Intel® Xeon® processor cores and deliver 6 TFLOPS of performance.

Around the world, SGI is seeing strong customer interest in the new platform. SGI Altix ICE systems have already been installed at a number of customer sites, including the University of Exeter in England and General Atomics in San Diego.

Very cool, SGI have released a HPC platform using blade servers, it does look very cool and the site mentions that they have paid particular attention to energy efficiency and ease of deployment, it does sound very interesting, do check it out, it’s got PDFs all about it. When looking at blade solutions, it pays to look at the different options, particularly for HPC/grid applications where deploying a clustered type solution like Panta Systems or SGI might be more effective than a suite of conventional blades..

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