Germany : SGI[R] Sets World Records on Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) Benchmarks.Byline: Mamta03 SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SGI) today announced the SGI Altix 4700 platform, powered by Dual-Core Intel Itanium Processor 9040 (1.6GHz), claimed three Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit organization that aims to produce "fair, impartial and meaningful benchmarks for computers." SPEC was founded in 1988 and their goal is to ensure that the marketplace has a fair and useful set of metrics to (SPEC) benchmark world records at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ LRZ Leibnitz Rechen Zentrum (Munich, Germany) ) in Garching, Germany. The Altix installation at LRZ one of three national supercomputing centers in Germany and one of the largest Altix 4700 installations in the world is optimized to deliver high-application performance and high-memory bandwidth for scientific projects and simulations. SGI benchmarking experts used a single-system image An operational view of multiple networks, distributed databases or multiple computer systems as if they were one system. (SSI (1) See server-side include and single-system image. (2) (Small-Scale Integration) Less than 100 transistors on a chip. See MSI, LSI, VLSI and ULSI. 1. (electronics) SSI - small scale integration. 2. ) node with 1024 Itanium cores, 4TB of memory and Novell s SuSE LinuxA[R]; Enterprise 10 operating environment to achieve record-breaking results on three SPEC benchmarks for computer systems: SPECjbb2005, SPECint_rate_base2006 and SPECfp_rate_base2006, thus solidifying Altix s leadership in high-performance computing (HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. ) and Internet computing environments. The Altix 4700 continues to shatter world records in performance, speed and scalability; it is the leading single-system image platform available, said Giovanni Coglitore, senior vice president and chief products officer at SGI. The Altix 4700 outperforms its closest SSI competitor by more than five times in some of these important industry benchmarks. SGI Altix is a large, shared-memory SSI architecture that powers some of the world s most important systems that facilitate research in such fields as global warming, fraud detection and homeland security. The scalable Altix 4700 platform offers a unique modular blade design for superior performance, density and plug-and-solve flexibility for technical and scientific users. Over the past three years, LRZ has been able to run large-scale OpenMP codes on its Altix 4700 system, which could not be executed on any other machine in Germany, said Dr. Horst-Dieter Steinhofer, head of the high-performance systems department at LRZ. With benefits such as the large memory nodes, a large portfolio of standard software applications and the high quality development environment, Altix systems have quickly become well adopted by German scientists, thereby validating LRZ s strategy to provide state-of-the-art supercomputing services. Copyright [c] : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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