SGI announces a 30 percent increase in TOP500 systems and additions to the UV family

Today’s leading research institutions, government agencies, and enterprises are leveraging high performance in-memory computing to solve complex problems and accelerate Big Data analytics. As problem sizes and data volumes grow, so does the need for greater in-memory performance and capacity.

SGI has increased the number of systems on the TOP 500 list by 30 percent, a gain from 23 in November 2014 to 30 systems in July 2015. Building on over 20 years of in-memory computing leadership and overcoming the limitations and complexity of clusters, the SGI UV line of advanced symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems provide unparalleled performance and scale to spur innovation, achieve greater insight and achieve faster time to discovery.

New SGI UV 3000 and UV 30
Designed for compute-intensive, fast algorithm workloads such as computer-aided engineering (CAE), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and scientific simulations, the new SGI UV 3000 enables customers to solve larger problems, achieve high levels of accuracy, run more applications in less time without complexity, and accelerate time to value. Featuring a high processor to memory ratio utilizing the new Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 v3 product family, and coupled with SGI’s ultra-fast, low latency NUMAlink® interconnect, the UV 3000 can scale up to 256 CPU sockets and 64 terabytes (TB) of cache-coherent shared memory in a single system.

SGI also introduced the new SGI UV 30, designed for smaller, compute-intensive environments. The 2U, 4-socket server will also feature the Intel Xeon processor E5-4600 v3 family and provide up to 3TBs of in-memory computing power.

Enhanced SGI UV 300 and UV 30 EX
Designed for data-intensive, I/O heavy workloads such as data visualization, real-time streaming, and high performance data analytics, the newly enhanced UV 300 delivers high memory to processor ratio for visualization of massive data sets, analyzing Big Data in real-time, and accelerating time to action. By incorporating the latest Intel Xeon processor E7-8800 v3 product family and extending the 7th generation SGI NUMAlink® interconnect topology, SGI more than doubled the capacity of its SGI UV 300 to 64 CPU sockets and 64TBs of cache coherent shared memory.

Complementing the SGI UV 300, SGI will also extend the Intel Xeon processor E7-8800 v3 product family to the SGI UV 30EX, a 5U, 4-socket server now providing up to 6TB of in-memory computing power.