High-Productivity

Servers and Supercomputers

Do More with High-Productivity Computing
High-productivity computing is about delivering breakthrough results. Doing the job efficiently is one part of the formula but it's more than that--it's about enabling new breakthroughs and, quite simply, being able to DO MORE. Whether fundamentally changing aircraft design processes or bringing new multimillion-dollar consumer products to market, high-productivity systems and supercomputers enable you to reach your newest insights faster.

Extending Beyond General IT Computing
Think beyond the needs of general IT computing--this is not about efficient enterprise-resource-planning systems or just making existing processes run smoother. High-productivity computing is about delivering competitive advantage breakthroughs in an environment designed for productivity and deployability. To drive these results, you need technology that optimizes your workflow, allowing your resources to focus on the business of innovation rather than computer science. These technology investments enable you to turn data into information for making superior decisions faster than your competition and driving you to be a leader in your field.

An Architecture Designed with Productivity in Mind
SGI understands that to truly deliver breakthrough results, you need a computing environment designed for high productivity. Productivity incorporates three key aspects:

• System scalability with low latency,
• Scalable resource management to ensure all the system components are working together
• A system that is deployable

SGI delivers this high-productivity computing through our unique SGI^® NUMAflex^TM globally addressable shared-memory architecture.
A Choice of Operating Environment to Suit Your Application Needs
Unlike other systems that force costly migrations on its users, SGI is committed to helping you deploy the system that best suits your computing needs. With our NUMAflex globally addressable shared-memory architecture, SGI offers you a choice of operating environments and modular components to suit your computing requirements. If you need the density and real-time performance of IRIX^®, we have our SGI^® Origin^® line of high-performance systems and supercomputers. If you need standards-based performance, you can achieve that with our upcoming Linux^® and Intel^® Itanium^® 2-based systems. And we can add a heterogeneous filesystem and storage area network, so it's all part of a common environment.