On Latest Top500 List, SGI Altix Ice Leads the Way Among Industry-Standard Supercomputers
Silicon Graphics Systems Rank Among Most Powerful and Efficient Supercomputers on Earth
AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Supercomputing 2008,
Booth 1009 -- Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) (Nasdaq: SGIC) today announced that
its SGI(R) Altix(R) ICE platform ranks as the most powerful and energy
efficient of all industry-standard systems on the new Top500 list, the
globally recognized roster of the world's fastest supercomputers. The
acclaimed integrated blade platform, which is based on Intel(R) Xeon(R)
processors, also leads the list's top-ranked industry-standard systems in
performance efficiency.
The new Top500 list reveals how SGI Altix ICE leads the way among
industry-standard systems:
-- Fastest industry-standard supercomputer. With the debut at No. 3 of the
new NASA Pleiades system, SGI Altix ICE maintains its position as the
performance leader among industry-standard clusters. (See related
announcement.)
-- Leading energy efficiency. SGI Altix ICE powers the two most
energy-efficient industry-standard systems in the list's top 20 (NASA at No. 3
and Total Exploration Production at No. 17).
-- Leading performance efficiency. Among industry-standard systems in the
top 20, three SGI Altix ICE systems deliver the best LINPACK benchmark
performance efficiency (NASA at No. 3, Grand Equipement National de Calcul
Intensif -- GENCI at No. 14, and Total at No. 17). All three systems deliver
80 percent or better of their peak performance when running the LINPACK
benchmark.
"Since its introduction last year, the SGI Altix ICE platform has shown
what can be achieved by combining innovation with industry-standard
technologies," said Dave Parry, senior vice president, server products and
operations at Silicon Graphics, Inc. "The No. 3-ranked NASA Pleiades and many
other SGI Altix ICE systems lead the Top500 in energy and LINPACK performance
efficiency. Just as importantly, they managed all these achievements without
resorting to specialized accelerators. Just imagine if they had."
Compared to the most recent Top500 list released in June, Silicon Graphics
led the industry with a 40 percent increase in the number of SGI(R) systems
appearing in the Top 50, and a 300 percent increase in its Top 20 systems. The
entire list is available at www.top500.org.
Demonstrations at SC08:
-- Silicon Graphics will demonstrate its high-productivity compute,
storage and visualization solutions in Booth 1009 at the SC08 International
Conference, Nov. 15-21 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas.
Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) (Nasdaq: SGIC), is a leader in
high-performance computing. SGI delivers a complete range of high-performance
server and storage solutions along with industry-leading professional services
and support that enable its customers to overcome the challenges of complex
data-intensive workflows and accelerate breakthrough discoveries, innovation
and information transformation. SGI solutions help customers solve their
computing challenges whether it's enhancing the quality of life through drug
research, designing and manufacturing safer and more efficient cars and
airplanes, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland
security and defense, or helping enterprises manage large data. With offices
worldwide, the company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and can be
found on the Web at www.sgi.com.
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featuring the 650 area code are no longer in service.
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