- Jan 24, 2011
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Server maker Silicon Graphics doesn't think it can take on the entire Windows server market, but the company – which is best known for supercomputers and hyperscale rack servers – does think it can chase and win deals in the evolving HPC market for windows.
That is why it has certified Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2 on its Altix UV 1000 machine supercomputer clusters. These machines are based on SGI's homegrown NUMAlink 5 interconnect, formerly known as "UltraViolet," that hooks into the QuickPath Interconnect on Intel's Xeon 7500 processors and their Boxboro chipset to create a single system image that has global shared memory accessible to 128 blades. Those blades use the eight-core "Nehalem-EX" Xeon 7500s, and have two sockets on them, for a total of 256 sockets and 2,048 cores - all sharing up to 16 TB of main memory in a cache-coherent fashion.
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That is why it has certified Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 R2 on its Altix UV 1000 machine supercomputer clusters. These machines are based on SGI's homegrown NUMAlink 5 interconnect, formerly known as "UltraViolet," that hooks into the QuickPath Interconnect on Intel's Xeon 7500 processors and their Boxboro chipset to create a single system image that has global shared memory accessible to 128 blades. Those blades use the eight-core "Nehalem-EX" Xeon 7500s, and have two sockets on them, for a total of 256 sockets and 2,048 cores - all sharing up to 16 TB of main memory in a cache-coherent fashion.
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