SGI ICE Series
 
  • Overview
  • Features & Benefits
  • Configurations
  • Service/Warranty
  • Benchmarks
  • Documentation

Companies today are dealing with increasingly difficult business problems, with ever-growing amounts of data to manage and process, and pressure to deliver results in record time. Most attack this critical problem by expanding IT infrastructure. But this "bigger faster" approach often comes with unforeseen administration and facilities costs and lower than expected throughput due to data bottlenecks. The SGI ICE 8400 integrated blade cluster was designed for today's data intensive problems and thus avoids these pitfalls. This innovative platform from SGI raises the efficiency bar, easily scaling to meet virtually any processing requirements without compromising ease of use, manageability or price/performance. SGI ICE 8400 delivers unsurpassed customer value, with breakthrough density, efficiency, reliability and manageability.

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Built with High Performance Computing (HPC) in Mind

  • Cable-free blade enclosures, integrated switches, and a high-performance interconnect architecture easily scale to thousands of nodes.
  • Performance-dense architecture combines an innovative new board design, with the latest and most powerful Intel® Xeon® 5600 series processors or AMD Opteron™ 6200 series processors to deliver up to 64 blades per rack, totaling up to 1536 processing cores in a single 42U rack.

Delivers Unsurpassed Value and Efficiency

  • Advanced Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) features, including redundant power supplies, redundant cooling fans and hot-swappable blades.
  • SGI innovation in power/cooling, incorporates the field-proven SGI ICE 8400 power/cooling architecture that delivers leading rack-level power efficiency, with optional water-cooled doors.
  • Flexible configuration options enable customers to optimize for performance or cost, with customer value that scales with system size.

Drives Immediate Productivity - Power Up & Go!!!

  • SGI "Power Up & Go" design, with systems that are fully integrated and tested in the factory, enabling scalable cluster solutions in hours, not weeks.
  • Based on industry standards, delivered with SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server operating system or Red Hat® Enterprise Linux, and a comprehensive cluster solution stack that includes the SGI® Management Suite system management software for quick deployment and easy management.
  • Backed 100% by SGI's world-class services organization, with an unmatched track record for successfully building, deploying and supporting the world's most complex technical computing systems.

Additional Information

Features and Benefits

 

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Feature Benefit
SGI "Power Up & Go" Design Immediate productivity with up to 14.1 teraflops per rack to drive user applications.
Advanced Blade Enclosure Design Reduced cost and complexity and simplified scalability, with cable-free blade enclosures and switchless topology. Optimize for maximum performance or ultra cost efficiency (price/performance).
Flexible Packaging Leading value and Return on Investment (ROI), with ability to choose from blades and blade enclosures and optimize for raw performance or lowest possible cost.
HPC Optimized Compute Blades Leading performance density for optimal data center space utilization. Blade options include support for the powerful Intel Xeon 5600 and AMD Opteron™ 6100 series processors both based on PCI-E 2.0 capable QDR InfiniBand connectivity.
SGI Patented Power Design Enhanced power efficiency for reduced overall cost of deployment.
SGI Water Chilled Doors Increased reliability by maintaining an optimal operational environmental temperature, preventing overheating that could otherwise lead to system outages.
SGI® Management Suite Simplified scalability and easier management, based on a Hierarchical Management Framework (HMF) that provides the ability to manage, monitor and provision at blade, blade enclosure, rack and system level. Efficiently scales to thousands of nodes.
Comprehensive Solution Immediate productivity, with an available fully integrated software solution stack that includes SGI® Foundation Software, SGI Performance Suite and Altair® PBS Professional™ workload manager.
Industry-standards Based Fully satisfies IT OS, applications and security compliancy requirements, and delivers all of the benefits of open industry-standard, with SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server or Red Hat® Enterprise Linux. Select from an extensive portfolio of 32- and 64-bit applications, with the assurance of industry-leading performance and reliability.

Configurations

 

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Compute Blades


Processors







Memory, IO and Storage
IP-101 IP-103 IP-105 IP-106 IP-110
  • 12 DDR3 DIMM slots per blade
  • 2, 4, 8, and 16GB 1333 MT/s ECC reg. DIMMs
  • One single-port ConnectX-2 IB HCA
  • 12 DDR3 DIMM slots per blade
  • 2, 4, 8, and 16GB 1333 MT/s ECC reg. DIMMs
  • One dual-port ConnectX-2 IB HCA
  • 12 DDR3 DIMM slots per blade
  • 2, 4, 8, and 16GB 1333 MT/s ECC reg. DIMMs
  • Two single-port ConnectX-2 IB HCA
  • One 2.5" SATA HDD or 1.8" SSD
  • 16 DDR3 DIMM slots per blade
  • 2, 4, 8, and 16GB 1333MHz ECC reg. DIMMs
  • Two single port ConnectX-2 IB HCA
  • 16 DDR3 DIMM slots per blade
  • 2, 4, 8, and 16GB 1333MHz ECC reg. DIMMs
  • One dual port ConnectX-2 IB HCA
Blade Enclosures


Interconnect







Power and Cooling
ICE 8400LX ICE 8400EX
  • Two 40Gb/sec InfiniBand switch blades, one high performance plane
  • Standard hypercube, enhanced hypercube, all-to-all, or fat tree topology
  • Redundant dedicated GigE administrative network, chassis management controller
  • Four 40Gb/sec InfiniBand switch blades, two high performance planes
  • Standard hypercube, enhanced hypercube, all-to-all, or fat tree topology
  • Redundant dedicated GigE administrative network, chassis management controller
  • 5+1 redundant 1625W 12V DC output front-end power supplies. (6+1 redundant power supplies when 105W+ CPU sockets are configured)
  • 7+1 redundant 175mm blowers
Storage
High-performance IPoIB solutions
  • High performance shared file systems
  • IP over InfiniBand
  • Native InfiniBand block level access
Racks
42U (30"W x 40"D or 76.2cm x 101.6cm) Rack
  • Each rack supports up to four blade enclosures, each with up to 16 dual-socket compute blades accommodating up to 128 sockets (1536 cores) per rack
  • Standard 19"(48.26cm) racks also supported, each with up to two blade enclosures and 10U of extra space for storage
  • Cooling: Air (standard) or water (optional)
System Management
Hierarchical Management Framework Controllers
Tier 1: System Administration Controller Tier 2: Rack Leader Controller (RLC) Tier 3: Chassis Management Controller
  • One per SGI ICE system
  • Provisions out software to RLC
  • Pulls aggregated cluster management data from RLC
  • One per four blade enclosures
  • Holds blade boot images
  • Runs fabric management software
  • Aggregates cluster management data for rack
  • One per blade enclosure
  • Controls master power to all compute nodes
  • Monitors power and blade enclosure environment
Service Node Options
  • Login Service Node
  • Gateway Service Node
  • Batch Service Node

Service nodes can be optionally configured with:

  • GPU's: NVIDIA® Quadro® FX 1800/3800/4800/5800, NVIDIA® Quadro® 2000/4000/5000/6000/7000, NVIDIA® Tesla™ C/S2050, C/S/M2070, M2090
  • Hard Disk Drives (SAS and/or SATA)
  • I/O cards (various)
System Software
Operating Systems
  • SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 11
  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux
Cluster Solution Stack
  • SGI Foundation Software 2: optimized drivers and system monitoring
  • SGI® Performance Suite: optimized system and application performance
  • SGI® Management Suite: cluster management software
  • Altair® PBS Professional™: job scheduling and workload management
Software Development
Programming Languages and Debuggers
  • C & C++: Intel C++ Compiler, GNU GCC
  • Fortran: Intel Fortran Compilers (Fortran 95), GNU GCC (Fortran77)
  • Debuggers: Intel Debugger included with Intel compilers, GNU GDB, Rogue Wave Software TotalView Team, Allinea DDT Intel® Inspector XE
  • Performance Analysis: Intel® VTune Amplifier XE, Intel® Trace Analyzer & Collector
Libraries
  • SGI MPI
  • Intel® Math Kernel Library
  • Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives
  • OpenMP included with Intel compilers
  • Intel® Parallel Building Blocks
  • Intel® MPI Library

Service/Warranty

SGI® ICE 8400 comes with a limited manufacturer's product warranty that includes:

Hardware warranty coverage

  • Three-year on-site hardware repair and parts replacement with next-business-day on-site response
  • Parts and labor included, 5x9 coverage

Software warranty coverage

  • Telephone technical assistance (first 90 days only)
  • Software updates are not included
  • Applies only to operating systems installed by SGI

Benchmarks

Standard Benchmarks

  • Linpack on 2 Sockets
  • Linpack on SGI Altix ICE 8200EX
  • STREAM Triad
  • SPECompMbase2001
  • SPEC MPI2007

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Application Performance

Computational Structural Mechanics - Implicit

  • MS.Nastran
  • Abaqus/Standard

Computational Structural Mechanics - Explicit

  • Abaqus/Explicit
  • LS-Dyna
  • Radioss

Computational Fluid Dynamics

  • Fluent
  • StarCD

Computational Chemistry

  • Gaussian
  • VASP
  • Namd

Weather and Climate

  • WRF

 

Datasheets

 

AMD Processors

AMD Processors

Mellanox

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