SGI, a trusted leader in technical computing, today announced the introduction of SGI Prism XL, a breakthrough new product for accelerator-based high performance computing (HPC). SGI Prism XL was purpose-built to fully leverage the scale and speed of accelerators, enabling customer to scale to the tens of petaflops or large teraflop range.
SGI Prism XL boasts extreme density. Whereas x86 processors may require up to a hundred cabinets to deliver a petaflop of computing performance, SGI Prism XL delivers similar performance and scale in a single cabinet, and a 20 petaflop double precision deployment can be achieved in as few as one hundred cabinets. This represents a 100 to 1 reduction in facility floor space and up to a 30% reduction in overall total cost of ownership.

Also announced today was SGI STIX architecture, the basic building block for SGI Prism XL. SGI STIX architecture moves beyond the blade to a ‘stick’ form factor while also accelerating the pace of computing towards the exascale range.

STIX Architecture Features:

  • Based on a leading PCIe infrastructure for accelerator deployment while being accelerator-agnostic
  • Supports the latest accelerator cards from NVIDIA, AMD and Tilera, and up to a 300W PCIe card
  • A ‘stick’ is used as the integral unit, with each stick containing two ‘slices’ of a full-length, full-height PCIe gen 2 x 16 slot and a single-socket AMD 4100-powered motherboard
  • Built-in fans and auto-sensing power supplies to detect changes and keep the unit operating in almost any environment

Please visit our SGI Prism XL product web page for more details.