Altix: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

On this page about Altix:

• Tags
• Encyclopedia extract
• Translations
• Search Results

Tags

• Supercomputers (58)

Encyclopedia: Altix

Altix is Silicon Graphics' line of servers and supercomputers. The line was first announced in January 2003, with the Altix 3000 offering Intel Itanium 2 processor setups running Linux with SGI ProPack. The systems could originally support up to 64 processors. SGI announced 128-processor systems in February 2004, and delivered 256- and 512-processor systems later in 2004. SGI later produced the ATLIX 4000 series based on a newer Itanium 2, and The Altix XE series based on Intel dual and quad-core Xeon processors.

Translations

How to say "Altix" in other languages:

	(German)	SGI Altix
	(Italian)	Altix

Search results

Silicon Graphics

, 2003, SGI announced a variant of the SN-MIPS platform to be sold under the name Altix 3000. Known internally as SN-IA, the Altix 3000 used Intel Itanium 2 processors in place of the MIPS R1x000 processors in the SN-0, SN-MIPS, and SN-2 families. The Altix 3000 ran the Linux operating system. At the...

→  read in the encylopedia

Symmetric multiprocessing

, while the Itanium 2 scales to 64 CPUs in platforms such as the SGI Altix series. Older generations...

→  read in the encylopedia