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Article: SGI Altix 3000 With New Itanium 2 Processor Leads Competition on HPC Benchmarks; World's Most Scalable Linux System Sweeps Array of Industry-Standard Benchmarks With Twice the Performance of Competitive Offerings.
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- PR Newswire
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- June 24, 2003
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SGI today announced that its SGI(R) Altix(TM) 3000 servers and superclusters continue to deliver record performance on the next-generation Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors (1.30 GHz with 3M L3 cache, and 1.50 GHz with 6M L3 cache, code-named Madison). In a series of high-performance compute (HPC) benchmarks, the SGI Altix 3000 family outperformed competing systems including IBM and HP, demonstrating a significant advantage in performance and scalability for systems ranging from 4 to 64 -- and even 128 -- processors. The results confirm that the SGI Altix 3000 system, driving a 64-bit Linux(R) operating environment, maintains its performance edge over competing ...