SGI lancia Altix® UV 10

Today, SGI announced the immediate availability of Altix UV 10, a new high performance quad-socket server that enhances the range of data-intensive applications addressed by the Altix® UV product family.

Altix UV 10 meets the needs of a diverse set of data-intensive workloads including:

* Analytics and CAE applications such as Ansys and MSC Nastran
* Applications in high performance computing (HPC) domains such as life sciences and energy
* Data-ingest and pre- and post-processing workloads often found in government and enterprise markets. As well, Altix UV 10 is a compelling virtualization platform for general-purpose enterprise server consolidation.

In conjunction with the Altix UV 10 launch, SGI also announced that it has submitted world-record SPEC benchmark results with Altix UV 1000, proving that Altix UV is the world's fastest shared memory system. See our press release for more details.

Announcing Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 Series Support on Altix UV
SGI also announced today full support of the new Intel Xeon processor 7500 series across the entire Altix UV product line (Altix UV 10, 100 and 1000). Altix UV uniquely exploits the increased performance and scalability capabilities of the new Intel Xeon processor, announced today by Intel Corporation. Learn more here.

Announcing Immediate Availability of AMD® Opteron™ 6000 Series Platforms in SGI® Server Lines
SGI is committed to supporting AMD® Opteron™ series platform choices, including the recently announced AMD Opteron 6000 series, across all SGI® scale-out server platforms with dramatic increases in core density.

Day-one support for the new AMD Opteron 6000 series platforms is offered across SGI's entire design-to-order server portfolio including:

* CloudRack™ C2 Servers - scaling up to 1,824 cores per rack
* Rackable™ half-depth servers - scaling up to 2,208 cores per rack.
* SGI® InfiniteStorage servers
* The ICE Cube™ modular data center - now supporting AMD Opteron processors for the first time and scaling up to 41,760 cores per container.