Article: SGI Altix 3000 Performance Lead Rolls on With Latest SPEC Benchmark Results; Already the World's Fastest, Altix Continues to Dominate Tests of Components Crucial to Scientific and Engineering Applications.

Fortifying its unchallenged performance lead among all competing systems, SGI today announced that its SGI(R) Altix(TM) 3000 servers and superclusters continue to rule industry standard benchmarks. The Linux(R) OS-based Altix 3000 systems recently posted leading results in SPEComp(R) M2001 tests, which measure compute-intensive OpenMP(TM) shared-memory parallel workloads similar to those used in demanding scientific and engineering environments.

Based on the latest available results published on http://www.spec.org/, SGI Altix once again screams past all other competing 64-processor and 32-processor systems, including systems from HP, Sun Microsystems and ...

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