Octane III: the personal supercomputer of SGI

With the personal supercomputers, the manufacturers put the power the door of the more modest purses, like SGI with, commercialis to leave D `a little more than 5000 euros.

Octane III is a bulky work station destiny with the averages and large companies being able to accomodate, according to the modle, of 10 19 blades dual or individual socket.

In its version 10 blades, it undertaken can then lay out D `a computer of great power dowry of 20 processors Xeon 5500, 960 Go of moired and 10 hard drives of 2,5 inches.

Octane is galement available with processors Atom dual-core and graphics cards Quadro FX5800 (Nvidia) or C1060 Tesla.

the supercomputer is compatible with diffrents OS of the march, knowledge Microsoft HPC Server 2008, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

« Octane III is ddi with the scientists and the ingnieurs of offices D `tudes needing always more processing capability, without to have the possibilits dployer a cluster of calculation in their company » prcise SGI in a communiqu.

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