The SGI

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The SGI Altix FamilyVlastimil
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Silicon Graphics
Providing the Industrys Highest-Performing
Compute, Storage and Visualization Products

• Focus is exclusively the technical computing
  market
• Technology is designed to enable the most
  significant scientific and creative breakthroughs
  of the 21st century
• Products and services are mission critical to
  government and defense, science and research,
  manufacturing, energy and media industries

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Problems are Getting Increasingly Complex
Entire car
Crash dummy
Organ damage
E-crash dummy
Car image courtesy of EAI Torso image courtesy
of SCI Institute, NLM, Theoretical Biophysics
Group of the Beckman Institute at UIUC Crash
image courtesy of Livermore Software Technology
Corporation  
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State-of-the-Art Problem-Solving SGIs Customers
Government
Energy
Manufacturing
Media
Science
Astronomical Simulation, Drug Development, Genome
Modeling
Weather Modeling, Signal Analysis, Simulation
Seismic Processing
Engineering Analysis Crash testing
Rendering
Styling CAD
Medical Simulation, Scientific Visualization
Visual Simulation, Satellite Image Processing
Reservoir Modeling
Scene Modeling
DistributedSeismic Data
Distributed shared medical data
Product Data Management
Satellite Data Management, Distributed Weather
Data
Video Serving, Data Management
Images courtesy of the Laboratory for
Atmospheres at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center,
Molecular Simulations Inc., Landmark Graphics
Corporation, BMW and ESI Group, and WETA Digital
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Strategic Focus Areas
High Performance Computing
Storage
Advanced Visualization

• SGI Origin family
• SGI Altix family
• NUMAlink
• Scalability
• Performance
• Multi-paradigm computing

• SGI TP9000 storage arrays
• CXFS
• DMF/TMF
• SAN and NAS servers
• Data lifecycle management
• Heterogeneous file sharing

• Onyx
• Tezro
• SGI Reality Center
• InfiniteReality
• InfinitePerformance
• Visual Area Networking

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Tailored Solutions with Modular SGI NUMAflex
Architecture

Memory
I/O
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Modular SGI NUMAflex Architecture
System Interconnect
CPU Memory
System I/O
Standard I/O Expansion
High-Bandwidth I/O Expansion
Graphics Expansion
Storage Expansion
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Architecture Designed for HPCChoice of
Deployments
NUMAflex Global Shared-Memory Architecture Balanc
ed, scalable performance Operating environment
optimized for HPC Low-latency memory
access Easily Deployable
MIPS and IRIX
Intel Itanium 2 and Linux
SGI Origin Family
SGI Altix Family
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SGI Origin Family Drives Mission-Critical
Applications

• Worldwide powerhouse in simulation, science,
  defense
• Scalability and performance made Origin the best
  choice for the DODs SUPERCODING homeland
  security project
• Real-time capabilities support Hydro-Quebecs
  real-time simulation of the power grid
• Big-data architecture is ideal for US Space
  Commands efforts to detect, identify and track
  man-made objects in space
• Balanced real-world performance is critical to
  Germanys Waterway Engineering and Research
  Institutes efforts to analyze the impact of
  planned construction on waterways and flood zones

Images courtesy of US Air Force Space Command and
BAW
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SGI Altix Scaling Linux to New Altitudes

• Intel Itanium 2 processors
• Optimized Linux stack middleware
• SGI NUMAflex shared memory architecture

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The Worlds Most Complete Linux Solution
Stack The Worlds Most Scalable Linux Solution
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Altix Open Standards Leadership

• Scalability
• World-record SSI scalability
• Unique supercluster scalability
• Large global shared memory supports complex,
  data-intensive applications
• Expand On Demand Flexibility
• Scale processors, memory, I/O independently
• Cost-effective customized solutions
• Performance
• World-record memory and I/O bandwidth
• Industry-leading floating point performance
• System and operating environment tuned for HPC
  applications
• Open Standards
• Itanium and Linux drive applications
  availability and cost-effective solutions
• Upgrade and expand processors, memory, I/O
• Seamlessly adopt new industry standards

Linux Kernel Scaling
512
256
Supercluster Scaling
2048
512
Global Shared Memory
32TB
8TB
Expected availability late 2004This slide
contains forward-looking statements. The results
and forecasts as stated may vary. Other risks
and uncertainties relating to this slide may be
found in the "Safe Harbor" statement at the
beginning of this presentation.
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Altix Breakthrough Deployments

• Breakthrough applications

Chemistry and Biology Gaussian, Amber, Blast,
Charm, Accelrys and more Manufacturing LS-Dyna,
Abaqus, Star-CD, NASTRAN, Ansys and
more Physical Sciences Modeling of oceans,
weather, earth, astronomy, energy, and more
Oak Ridge National Lab, University of Minnesota
Supercomputing Institute, National Cancer
Institute, many universities
Tata Motors, Skoda, many more
COSMOS, NASA, University of Queensland, Total,
Japan Institute of Statistical Mathematics, many
more
Large shared memory
Breakthrough technologies
Oak Ridge National Labs (2TB), Japan Institute of
Statistics and Mathematics (1.96TB), NRL (1TB),
and others NASA Ames (512p), NRL (384p), SARA
(416p), Total (552p), and others COSMOS,
Netherlands National Supercomputing Facility at
SARA, and others Wichita State University, BP,
and others Total, NASA Ames, NRL, and others
Large processor scalability
Grid computing
Hybrid solutions
Proven performance
Early adopters expanding their deployments
Images courtesy of the University of Cambridge,
Molecular Simulations Inc., Skoda Auto, and NASA
Ames
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SGI Altix Family of Servers and Superclusters
Enabling Linux Throughout the Enterprise

• Unified architecture
• Scales from 1P to 1000s of processors
• Best price and performance at every level

SGI Altix 350 Servers and Clusters
SGI Altix 3000 Servers and Superclusters
Hybrid Solutions w/ 3rd Party Linux Solutions
Desktops Edge servers
Mid-Range Divisional
Capability
Desktops Edge/32-bit servers
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The Altix 350 Expand on Demand Growth Path
1-16P/2-192GB
Right-size systems for the ultimate
price/performance
1-12P/ 2-144 GB
1-8P/ 2-96GB
1- 4P/ 2- 48GB

• Independently scale CPU, memory, I/O
• One Linux instance to manage
• Investment protection leverage current assets
• Allocate budget and resources to ongoing needs

Base Unit 1 or 2P/2-24GB
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SGI Altix - A Complete Solution for Linux HPC
I000s of drivers, tools, applications, devices
SGI Professional and Customer Services (unrivaled
system integration and support)
SGI InfiniteStorage and Visualization on
Linux (industry-leading scalability and speed)
SGI ProPack and SGI SW enhancements for HPC
SGI NUMAflex and NUMAlink (4th-generation
modular supercomputing architecture)
Intel Itanium 2 processor family (Built from
ground up for high performance computing)
Typical Linux Solutions
Industry-standard Linux
Foundation of SGI and Intel Industry Experience
and Leadership
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Linux for Prime Time

• Standard Linux O/S
• Allows users to run thousands of standard Linux
  applications
• Brings new applications to the platform (e.g.
  Oracle)
• Open Source Enhancements
• Make standard applications run faster
• SGI has made several important contributions to
  Open Source
• XFS file system XSCSI for large-volume I/O
• Choice of Operating Environment
• SGI-built option for maximum HPC optimization
  (Red Hat binary compatible)
• Out-of-box SuSE for maximum compatibility/standard
  ization
• Altix specific enhancements
• MPT and array services for message-passing
  optimization
• CPU sets and memory placement
• CXFS heterogeneous HPC file system
• Hierarchical storage management
• Performance Co-Pilot
• XVM for large-volume I/O

SGI Advanced Linux Environment 2.1 is compatible
with Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 for the
Itanium Processor, but is not sponsored by or
endorsed by Red Hat, Inc. in any way.
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Visualization Product Line

• Silicon Graphics Tezro Visual Workstation
• Powerhouse performance and reliability for
  visualization
• Multiprocessing, and digital media
• Quad-processor capable
• Higher-bandwidth memory and I/O architecture
• 3x price/performance improvement

• Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision
  Visualization System
• Worlds most scalable visualization system40x
  the price/performance
• Solves system bandwidth limitations of PCs and
  clusters
• Raising the bar in visualization

Image courtesy of Molecular Simulations Inc.
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SGI Storage Solutions

• SGI offers the worlds most advanced data
  management capabilities
• SGI storage solutions are deployed in the worlds
  most data-intensive environments
• Unique capabilities like the SGI CXFS shared
  file-system allow customers to access up to an
  exabyte of data in a single file-system
• Users are able to
• Transparently share data everywhere without
  replication
• Scale as the business and application grows no
  matter how fast or how large
• Migrate data over time based on the value of the
  data or cost of storage without affecting
  accessibility

Images courtesy of Dr. Arthur W. Toga, The
Laboratory of Neuro Imaging American Museum of
Natural History Industrial Light and Magic,
Lucasfilm Ltd Image courtesy of Parametric
Technology Corporation.  
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Summary

• SGI
• Addresses the increasingly demanding needs of HPC
  users with innovative technologies designed to
  address the petascale problems of the 21st
  century
• Provides capabilities not addressed by commodity
  clusters, that can significantly increase
  computing productivity
• Leads the industry in advancing Linux into
  scalable production environments through
  community based efforts
• Enables new discoveries through solutions that
  integrate compute, data life-cycle management,
  and advanced visualization
• Provides superior, open alternative to
  proprietary systems, with full scalability from
  mid-range to supercomputer, superclusters

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Altix 350

• ANSYS User Group Meeting

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Altix 350 Best-in-Class Mid-Range HPC Solution

• Best-in-Class Price
• Lowest pricing for scalable mid-range (4p and
  above) - average 5,400/processor USLP
• Affordable entry point for Altix 3000-caliber
  solution - starts at 12,199 USLP
• Best-in-Class Performance
• Superior performance scalability up to 16P
• Incrementally scale I/O, memory, processors
• Best-in-Class Open Solution
• Optimized Linux platform for enhanced
  manageability, stability
• 100 commitment to Linux, technology leadership
  in Linux community

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Altix 350 Powerhouse Mid-range Server

• Superior performance scalability from 1 to 16
  processors
• Best price/performance mid-range server
• Ideal for departmental application servers,
  technical database, throughput clusters
• Independently scale I/O, processors, memory
• One Linux instance to manage
• NUMAlink 4 ring topology
• Cluster to 1000s of processors using
• industry-standard interconnects

1 - 16P / 2-192GB
ONE OPERATING SYSTEM
1- 12P / 2-144 GB
1 - 8P / 2-96GB
1 - 4P / 2-48 GB
Base Unit 1 or 2P / 2-24GB
Only scalable system featuring both Standard and
new Low Voltage Intel Itanium 2 processors
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Altix 350 Front Rear
IO9 or IO10
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Altix 350 Server 16P Ring Topology

• Bisection Bandwidths
• 4 Processors 3.2GB/s
• 8 Processors 1.6GB/s
• 12 Processors 1.06GB/s
• 16 Processors 800MB/s

SHUB Hops
Remote Latency (ns)
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Where Altix 350 Shines!
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Altix 350 for Throughput Clusters

• Ideal for throughput workflows
• Shorter time-to-solution
• Reduces need for job decomposition and
  load-balancing
• Eliminates need to move data across a cluster
• Lower cost clustering
• Larger nodes require less interconnect fabric
• Pooled resources eliminates need to over
  provision cluster
• Decreased software licensing costs
• Simpler system administration and development
  costs
• Fits easily into mixed HPC environments
• Supports all major programming models

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