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SGI offers support for both on-board InfiniBand on its x86 Rackable servers. SGI officials said the move will make the systems more attractive for businesses looking to run HPC clusters. Moving deeper into the HPC space was a key driver behind Rackable’s decision in April to spend $42.5 million to buy SGI.

SGI is rolling out servers that can support both on-board InfiniBand connectivity and 10 Gigabit Ethernet.

SGI—formerly Rackable Systems—announced the new Rackable x86 servers June 24. The system are designed for industries, such as oil and gas, financial services, research and engineering, that run HPC (high-performance computing) environments, said Giovanni Coglitore, senior vice president and chief products officer at SGI.

“Our upgraded Rackable servers are optimized to manage a complex workflow and allow applications to attain high performance without the I/O bottlenecks associated with higher latency and lower bandwidth solutions,” Coglitore said in a statement.

Anything that SGI can do to improve the performance or scalability for their servers has to be a good thing for their end user community, I need to learn more about SGI servers, I’ve been thinking of doing some how to articles, but I need to check them out first.

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