Like the Altix 4700 machines, the Altix UV boxes are based on a blade architecture. The Nehalem EX chips are designed to be used in servers with four sockets or more, and its related Boxboro chip can be used to make glueless eight-socket servers packing up to 64 cores in a single symmetric multiprocessing image. But there is no law that says you have to build a basic blade with four sockets.
Link to Article Here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/16/sgi_altix_uv_preview/print.html
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment