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    SGI Back With High-Density, Big Data-Ready Cloud System

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    January 31, 2012
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      SGI, which focuses exclusively on the high-performance computing market and large-scale workloads with its clustered Altix servers, Jan. 31 unveiled a new integrated server and storage platform for cloud and data storage use.

      Dubbed SGI Modular InfiniteStorage, the core platform will be available as either SGI Modular InfiniteStorage Server or SGI Modular InfiniteStorage JBOD (just a bunch of disks) storage systems, SGI Director of Storage Products Floyd Christofferson told eWEEK.

      The new cloud storage system is powered by Altix scale-up and scale-out clusters, as well as Altix XE hybrid systems, which all run on Intel’s Xeon or Itanium processors. High-speed networking comes from InfiniBand connectivity or SGI’s NUMALink offering.

      “Think of this as sort of a Lego-type approach, where we can interchange parts, depending upon the specific requirements,” Christofferson said. “It could be a storage server, very dense, and can have either one or two two-socket motherboards, which run the Intel Jefferson Pass processor. Or it could be a cloud systems server.

      “Tied in there, we could have either 72 3.5-inch [hard] drives or 144 2.5-inch, 9.5mm HDDs, which also could be SAS/SATA SSDs [solid-state disks].”

      When built into SGI’s standard D-Rack cabinet configuration, the system can supply up to a whopping 2.37 petabytes of raw capacity. As many as 40 discrete processors can be utilized within a single standard 19-inch rack footprint. This kind of density enables IT organizations to reclaim floor space and reduce power and cooling costs, Christofferson said.

      Several Choices in Configuration

      The same basic packaging could be reconfigured as a JBOD, Christofferson said. All of the servers and arrays are accessible from either front or back to aid with installation and maintenance-a nontrivial consideration because these are big and heavy machines.

      SGI Modular InfiniteStorage is aimed at IT storage management environments that require data and compute to be tightly coupled, Christofferson said. This approach enables customers to pool processing and storage in the right proportions for best efficiency and in precisely the manner they need to keep pace with expanding data and application demands.

      SGI customers include major national scientific laboratories, government and military agencies, oil and gas researchers, and other similar use cases.

      A little background: Rackable Systems bought SGI-which once ruled Silicon Valley as a high-end workstations maker-in 2009 and adopted the SGI name.

      SGI MIS Server and SGI MIS JBOD are now available for preorder. Pricing is available upon request. See this Website for more information.

      Chris Preimesberger
      https://www.eweek.com/author/cpreimesberger/
      Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.

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