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Article: SGI ALTIX WITH 8TB OF SHARED MEMORY RAISES THE BAR FOR HPC.
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- Mainframe Computing
- Article date:
- January 1, 2009
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Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) (NASDAQ:SGIC), Sunnyvale, Calif., global shared memory architecture enables industrial, government and university researchers to gain insight into larger data sets than ever thought possible. With 8TB of global shared memory, SGI(R) Altix(R) systems are able to hold entire data sets in memory and eliminate many types of application and system I/O -- accelerating scientific research and I/O bound business computing problems.
With up to 8TB of global shared memory with as few as 12 processor cores, SGI Altix 4700 systems are enabling applications for a number of important projects:
-- NASA's SGI Altix 4700 system, installed at ...