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High Performance Servers - SGI® Altix 3000

The SGI Altix 3000 has 128 1.3GHz IA-64 processors and 217 Gbyte of memory.

For general system information see the SGI web site where it is also called the InfiniteStorage Data Lifecycle Management Server (DLM Server).

It provides computing cycles as well as hosting a hierarchical data store with 9.5 terabytes of disk being staged to or from magnetic tape cartridges in an automatic tape "silo" as required, using SGI's DMF - Data Migration Facility software.




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