SGI: accelerating results™
SGI: accelerating results™
KEY FACTS
VISION
Leader in technical computing:
•Public (NASDAQ: SGI)
•High Performance, Large
Scale Infrastructure
•HQ: Silicon Valley
•Open & Scalable Storage
•Employees: 1,300+
•Integrated Software
•Patents: 700
•Expert Services
•Global: 55 countries
•Customers: 6,000+
•Financially Strong
•Debt Free
•$450M of Assets
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Two Markets. Two Standards.
Technical Computing
Business Computing
Applications
that help
your
business
Closed
standards
Applications
that ARE
your
business
-Proprietary
-No Choice
-Locked In
-Vertically
Integrated
$30B TAM
Open
standards
-Standard Choice
-Independent
-Best-of-breed
-Integrated
$19B TAM*
SGI is focused on the $19B Technical
Computing market, with Open Standards
*Source: IDC, Nov 2010
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Our Differentiated Presence in the Market
A Trusted Leader in
Technical Computing
“… As we enter the next generation, moving from petaflops to
exaflops, SGI has emerged a trusted leader in technical
computing. Supporting some of the industry's most mission critical
and large-scale computing applications.”
-Earl Joseph, program vice president, high-performance systems
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SGI Markets
CLOUD
HPC
STORAGE
Private
Public
SaaS
Active Archive
Storage Servers
HP-HD Raid
Emerging
BIG
DATA
Hadoop
Databases
BI
Commercial
Scientific
Providing Customers Best-In-Class Technical Computing Solutions
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Focusing on Platforms that Require Technical Computing
Data Intensive
Industry Trends
 Cloud Computing
 Tech Refresh Cycle
 Energy Efficiency
 Big Data / Memory
 RISC migration
 Virtualization
 Open systems
 Scalable I/O
 Exascale
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Altix UV
Compute Intensive
Rackable
Altix ICE
Storage
InfiniteStorage
COPAN
Expert Services
Consulting &
Support
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Technical
Computing
Domain
Expertise
Technical Computing Priorities & Trends
Significant opportunity across industries
Financial Services
Energy
Life Sciences
Frequency trading, Actuarial,
Trading Platforms, Fraud
Prevention, Derivatives
Reservoir Simulation, Water
Management, Seismic
Processing, Geothermal,
Materials Sciences, Nuclear
Drug Design and Discovery,
Genomics, Molecular Modeling,
DNA Sequencing, Proteins,
Imaging, Informatics, Proteomics
Cloud
Intelligence / Defense Earth/Physical Sciences
Search, Social Networking,
Commerce, SAAS, Hosted
Compute and Storage
Complex Event Processing,
Simulation, Signal and Image
Processing, Cyber Security, CNC
Manufacturing
Entertainment / Media Data Analytics
CAD, EDA, Material Sciences,
FEA, CFD
Rendering, Gaming, Broadcast,
Content Distribution Networks
(CDNs)
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Weather, Climate, Volcanology,
Astrophysics, Cosmology,
Earthquake, Oceanography
Data Warehousing, Geo Spatial,
Image Processing, Cyber
Security, Big Data Models
SIMPLE Questions/Complex Answers:
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Can we build it?
How do we build/make it?
Is it safe?
Is it strong enough?
Can it be faster? Stronger?
Smaller? Bigger?
Will it last? Will it go far?
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It’s about the Apps.- Cluster Computing:
APPLICATIONS
SEGMENTS
Computational Structural
Mechanics
MSC.Nastran, ABAQUS/Std, ANSYS, NX.Nastran
Abaqus/Expl, LS-Dyna, Radioss, Pam-Crash
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Fluent, Numeca, StarCD, StarCCM+, CFX, CFD++, Vectis, Acusolve
Computational Electromagnetics
FEKO, PAM-CEM
Computational Chemistry
Material Studio, Discovery Studio, GAMESS, NW-Chem,
Jaguar, Amber, Gaussian, HMMER, NAMD,
Bioinformatics
MPI BLAST, MPI HMMER, Velvet
Reservoir Simulation
Petrel Geophysics, Eclipse
Seismic Processing
SPW, Depth Migration, Spectral Power
Rendering
Renderman, MentalRay, 3ds Max, Maya
Visualization
FieldVIEW, Opticore, Hypermesh, Motion View
Financial Services
SunGard, MG-ALPHA, MG-Hedge,
Scientific Research
MATLAB, gridMathematica
CAD/CAM/CAE
3DS CATIA, UGS Teamcenter, PTC ProE
System Software*: Microsoft Windows HPC Server 2008, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10/11, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5, SGI
ProPack™ 6 for Linux, SGI ISLE™. Workstation configuration supports Microsoft Windows 7, SLED 10/11, RHEL 5 Desktop.
* Availability varies by configuration
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Clustered and High Performance Computing
Scale-Out
Scale-Up
Rackable™
CloudRack™
Altix ICE™
Altix™ UV
1U, 2U, 3U, 4U & XE
Rackmount
Tray
Architecture
HPC Blade
Architecture
Shared-Memory
Architecture
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HPC Cluster Computing
Compute Nodes
Head/Master/Admin Node
Service Node: File system, Viz, GPU
Gig E Network
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HPC Cluster Computing
Gig E Network
Gig E Network
Compute Nodes
Head/Master/Admin Node
Service Node: File system, Viz, GPU
Gig E Network
Gig E Network
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HPC Cluster Computing
Infiniband –
DDR/QDR/FDR
Gig E Network
Compute Nodes
Head/Master/Admin Node
Service Node: File system, Viz, GPU
Gig E Network
Infiniband –
DDR/QDR/FDR
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Rackable™ / CloudRack™
1 Industry’s Most Flexible & Configurable Platform
Supports low/high wattage Intel and AMD through SSD
2 Design-to-Order
Configure the platform based on the customer’s work load
3 Datacenter Optimized
Cooling, power, layout and facility costs are top of mind
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FLOPS per SQ M per Watt Optimized
High density and energy efficient are pre-requisites for scale
Cloud Inspired (public and private)
Amazon EC2/S3, eBay, BT, Microsoft, Intuit, Shopzilla, NSA
Web Transactions, Hadoop
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Altix® ICE
1 World’s fastest distributed memory computer
Base on SPECmpil. Up to dual IB channels per node.
2 Scalable
Supports up to 65,536 nodes, 1 Million + Cores
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Altix ICE 8400
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Open
Runs Standard Linux, Intel Xeon 5600 or AMD Opteron
6100 CPUs (a both strategy)
New Topologies
Hypercube, enhanced hypercube, all-to-all, fat-tree
Differentiated (on capabilities)
Dell M100e (single plane), Bullx (95w), Sun Blade 6048 (95w),
Appro 5000 Series, HP c7000, IBM H Chassis Blades, Cray XT6
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GPU Cluster Computing
Infiniband –
DDR/QDR/FDR
Gig E Network
Compute Nodes CPU/GPU
Head/Master/Admin Node
Service Node: File system, Viz, GPU
CPU – INTEL XEON
GPU – NVidia Tesla, ATI, Tilera
Gig E Network
(PCIe-based 16X)
Infiniband –
DDR/QDR/FDR
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GPU Computing
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GPU (graphics processing unit) for scientific and engineering computing
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Teraflops of floating point performance
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PCIe devices
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CUDA parallel programming model
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SGI Prism™ XL
1 Open, Scalable Accelerator Platform
Based on STIX Architecture™
2
25% Less Cost than x86 for Similar
Performance
Based upon Peak DP PF Performance
3 1/10 the floor space
148 cabinets->1
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1 Pflp per cabinet
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NVIDIA, AMD and Tilera Accelerators
AMD Firestream SP Peak Performance
High-bandwidth x16 PCIe, up to 300W
SGI Prism XL
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Shared Memory - Supercomputing
 Many servers
 Many OSs
 Complex
Management Tools
 Many Networks
 MPI – parallel codes
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Share Memory - Supercomputing
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Share Memory - Supercomputing
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1 Server
1 Operating System
Simple Management
Numalink
Many Core
Loads of Memory
Giant desktop
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Altix® UV
1 World’s fastest shared memory computer
Base on SPECint and SPECfp
2 Scalable
Single system image up to 2048 cores and 16TB memory
3 Open
Runs Standard Linux, Intel Xeon 7500 Processors
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Game-changing Opportunities
HPC, Large DB/analytics, Scalable I/O, RISC replacement
Differentiated
Bull Mesca (128c), HP Superdome 2 (Itanium), Sun SPARC
M9000 (256c), IBM Power 780 (Power 7)
Altix UV 1000
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SGI Software
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System Management Center/Linux
File Systems: XFS/CXFS
Performance Tools/Linux
Development Tools/Linux
Workload and Job Scheduling
System Administration
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DMF CXFS™ Lustre
Resource and
Workload Scheduling
SGI® Foundation Software
Standard Linux and Virtualization
SGI Scale-up and Scale-out
Computing and Storage Systems
Third party product (available from and/or integrated by SGI)
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SGI HW and SW products
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SGI® Performance Suite
SGI® Management Center- Standard Edition
SGI® Management Center – Premium Edition
SGI MIBs/Agents
SGI® Management Center – Power Option
Development Tools and Libraries
SGI® MPI
SGI® Accelerate™
SGI® REACT™
SGI® UPC
SGI® Management Suite
SGI Technical Computing Software Stack
SGI® Server Technologies
World-Leading Solutions for Technical Computing
 Fast: world record performance
 Scalable:
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Largest Single-system Size – to 2048c/16TB
Most Scalable Infiniband Network
Extreme Scale in Cloud & Accelerator Computing
Scalable Software Stack
 Open:
• Runs standard off-the-shelf OS: Windows/Linux
• Flexible & highly configurable, design-to-order
• Standard x86/XEON Processors
* SPECint_rate_base2006 & SPECfp_rate_base2006
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SGI Server Solutions
Best Value, Performance, Fit
Altix UV 100, 1000
• 4-256 socket Intel® Xeon® 7500
supercomputer
• Scales to 2048 cores & 16TB of
memory
• World’s fastest shared memory
system
• Open architecture
• Choice of 3U rackmount or 16-blade
enclosures
4
2
Processors Per Server
8-100s
Altix® UV 10
• Quad socket Intel® Xeon® 7500
• High memory and I/O expansion capability
Rackable™ & CloudRack™ & Octane III
• Dual and quad socket Intel® Xeon® and AMD® Opteron™ nodes
• Clusters and workgroup servers
• Build to Order config. flexibility
• Eco-Logical™ for reduced power
consumption
• Rackmount and tray form factors
Altix ICE
• Dual socket Intel® Xeon® and
AMD® Opteron™ nodes
• No-compromise bladed clusters
• Large clusters deliver immediate
and sustained productivity
• Ideal for largest IB clusters
Latency & Bandwidth Between Nodes
Ethernet
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InfiniBand
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NUMAlink®
ICE Cube® Modular Data Centers
1 Self-contained datacenter
Power distribution, cooling, safety
2 Eco-logical
Achieving PUEs of 1.1 or better
3 Eco-nomical
1/5 the cost of a traditional datacenter
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Simple and easy to deploy
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Universal
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Live in 5 days
Support for SGI, DELL, HP, SUN, IBM,
CISCO, EMC and others
SGI MobiRack – Mobile Cloud
 Ability to handle AC power disruptions in non-ideal usage
environments. DC power distro, UPS, rectifier shelves and hiefficiency DC power supplies.
 Fast, easy deployment in space constrained locations.
 Configuration Flexibility: Intel/AMD BTO
 Solution Scalability compact to midrange units
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SGI Technology @ Work
DEFENSE & INTELLIGENCE
DIGITAL MEDIA
ENERGY
CLOUD
MANUFACTURING
RESEARCH & EDUCATION
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FINANCIAL SERVICES
…AND MORE