SGI creates ultra highend Linux variants
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on January 7, 2003 at 3:53:39 PM
SGI is getting into the Linux scene and dropping Irix (Its Unix clone). Their insanely dense CPU machines will feature up to 64 Itanium 2 CPUs with 64GB of memory. That costs a nice Million though.
They mean 64GB
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The new SGI system can use a stock version of Linux from Red Hat, said Greg Estes, the company's vice president of corporate marketing. But SGI recommends using a modified version that includes improvements such as SGI's XFS file system and software that takes advantage of specific features in the SGI systems. SGI also has contributed to work such as the Linux Scalability Effort to improve the operating system on high-end machines.
There are two configurations of the Altix system: the 3300, with as many as 12 processors, and the 3700, with as many as 64. Each system will accept sequels to the current Itanium 2 product, including models code-named Madison and Montecito, due for release this year and next.
A 16-processor 3700 with 16GB of memory costs $305,000, and a 64-processor system with 64MB of memory costs $1 million, according to SGI.
They mean 64GB
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