Silicon Graphics(SGI) has unveiled an
energy efficient supercomputer blade system.
The
SGI Altix ICE 8200 is the first in a line of bladed servers
purpose-built to handle high-performance computing (HPC)
applications and large workloads.
SGI said the solution’s ultra-dense rack architecture delivers
up to 40% more computing performance per square foot than competing
blades.
A single SGI Altix ICE 8200 rack can be powered by as many as
512
Intel Xeon processor cores, and deliver up to six teraflops in
performance.
The new platform’s high compute blade density helps customers
overcome more than “server sprawl”.
SGI said Altix ICE features an energy-smart design that can save
organisations up to £28,000 in annual energy costs when using a 10
teraflops system.
The University of Exeter has just taken one of the systems, said
SGI.
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