SGI Altix UV selected by ICR for cancer research
Jan 26, 2010 (TELECOMWORLDWIRE via COMTEX) --
Company: Silicon Graphics International Corp (SGI)
SGI (Nasdaq:SGI), a provider of HPC and data centre solutions, today announced that the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), a European cancer research institute, has selected its SGI Altix UV, reportedly the world's fastest supercomputer based on Intel Xeon processors, to support its future life-saving research. Financial details were not available.
Altix UV is expected to provide the ICR with a massively scalable shared memory system to process its growing data requirements, including hundreds of terabytes of data for biological networks, MRI imaging, mass-spectrometry, phenotyping, genetics and deep-sequencing information across thousands of CPUs.
The company said that the SGI Altix UV supports up to 16 terabytes of global shared memory in a single system image. It remains highly efficient at scale for applications ranging from in-memory databases to a diverse set of data and compute-intensive HPC applications.
SGI believes that the Altix UV is the only hardware solution equipped to meet the vast data processing requirements of the ICR.
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