New SGI Altix 3000 blows away competition with across-the-board dominance in performance

SGI (NYSE: SGI) today announced that its new SGI(r) Altix(tm) 3000 family of servers and superclusters, the first high-performance Linux(r) environment capable of scaling to hundreds of processors with global shared memory, has swept the competition in a host of high-performance system benchmarks. Consistently delivering industry-leading performance at every level of scalability, the new SGI(r) systems significantly outpaced competing systems from IBM and HP.

The SGI Altix 3000 systems (announced separately today) represent a dramatic advance for scientists, engineers and other users of standards-based computing environments. The new systems combine SGI's supercomputing architecture with Intel(r) Itanium(r) 2 processors and the Linux operating system, surpassing traditional clusters, high-end microprocessor-based servers and vector-based supercomputers in system performance and price/performance.

As recent tests reveal, the combination of SGI's powerful NUMAflex(tm) architecture and Intel's most advanced microprocessor in an open source computing environment yields potent price/performance breakthroughs in nearly every measurable category. The SGI Altix 3000 family triumphed in across-the-board benchmark and real-world application tests measuring processor and system performance, memory and I/O throughput, and compute-intensive application performance.

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