SGI today announced the immediate availability of Octane III, the company’s first personal supercomputer that provides whisper-quiet operations, easy-to-use features, low maintenance requirements and support for standard office power outlets. The Octane III supports up to 80 high-performance cores and nearly 1TB of memory for unparalleled performance. It is also easily configurable with single- and dual-socket node choices, and provides a wide selection of performance, storage, graphics, GP-GPU and integrated networking options.
The Octane III is currently available in a variety of powerful configurations:
- Ten dual-socket, Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5500 series-based nodes.
- One dual-socket, Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5500 series-based workstation with advanced nVidia graphics and/or GP-GPU card support.
- Nineteen single-socket, Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 3400 series-based nodes.
- Nineteen single-socket, Dual-Core Intel Atom processor-based nodes.
In addition, this personal supercomputer supports Microsoft HPC Server 2008, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating systems. Linux configurations include SGI ProPack and ISLE cluster management software. The SGI Octane III Personal Supercomputer with a basic configuration is priced at $7,995. [SGI]
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