Silicon Graphics Altix ICE 8000 Series, Краткое руководство пользователя

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Chapter 1
SGI Altix ICE 8000 Series System Overview
An SGI Altix ICE 8000 series system is an integrated blade environment that can scale
to thousands of nodes. The Scali Manage management software enables you to
provision, install, configure, and manage your system. This chapter provides an
overview of the SGI Altix ICE 8000 series system and covers the following topics:
• "Hardware Overview" on page 1
• "Networks" on page 12
• "Network Interface Naming Conventions" on page 22
Hardware Overview
This section provides a brief overview of the SGI Altix ICE 8000 series system
hardware and covers the following topics:
• "Basic System Building Blocks" on page 1
• "System Nodes" on page 7
For a detailed hardware description, see the SGI Altix ICE 8000 Series System Hardware
User’s Guide .
Basic System Building Blocks
The SGI Altix ICE 8000 series system is a blade-based, scalable, high density compute
system. The basic building block is the individual rack unit (IRU). The IRU provides
power, cooling, system control, and the network fabric for 16 compute blades, as
shown in Figure 1-1 on page 2. Each compute blade supports two either dual–core or
quad-core Xeon processor sockets and eight fully-buffered, double-data-rate two
(DDR2) memory dual in-line memory module (DIMMs). Four IRUs can reside in a
custom designed 42U high rack.
One rack supports a maximum of 512 processor cores and 2TB of memory.
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