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SGI Selects Chelsio's High Performance 10Gb Ethernet Adapters
Chelsio Offers Industry-Leading Throughput for SGI Altix Server and Cluster Platforms: Chelsio Communications, Inc., the leading provider of 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) adapters and ASIC solutions, today announced the availability of its high performance 10GbE adapter cards for server, cluster and storage platforms from SGI. 
"SGI customers have very demanding performance requirements for a wide range of throughput-intensive HPC applications," said Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO of Chelsio. "Chelsio is delivering the industry's best 10Gb Ethernet iWARP adapters for the SGI Altix servers and clusters." "As densities continue to increase and space and cooling limitations become more critical factors in data centers, the addition of Chelsio 10GbE adapters to our Altix product family provides a significant competitive advantage," said Bill Mannel, director of server marketing for SGI. "The combination of one of the industry's best performing 10GbE adapters and our scalable server platform is a winning combination for SGI customers." Chelsio's low profile storage accelerators, the S310e-SR+ (short-reach fiber with PCI Express) and S310e-CX (CX4 PCI Express), are available today for the following Linux-based SGI platforms:
"SGI customers have very demanding performance requirements for a wide range of throughput-intensive HPC applications," said Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO of Chelsio. "Chelsio is delivering the industry's best 10Gb Ethernet iWARP adapters for the SGI Altix servers and clusters." "As densities continue to increase and space and cooling limitations become more critical factors in data centers, the addition of Chelsio 10GbE adapters to our Altix product family provides a significant competitive advantage," said Bill Mannel, director of server marketing for SGI. "The combination of one of the industry's best performing 10GbE adapters and our scalable server platform is a winning combination for SGI customers." Chelsio's low profile storage accelerators, the S310e-SR+ (short-reach fiber with PCI Express) and S310e-CX (CX4 PCI Express), are available today for the following Linux-based SGI platforms:
- SGI Altix 4700 - High density modular blade incorporates the shared memory NUMAflex architecture, which simplifies software development, workload management and system administration. It supports up to 512 sockets or 1024 cores under one instance of Linux and as much as 1228TB of globally shared memory.
- SGI Altix 450 - Modular mid-range blade server configured from interchangeable compute, memory, I/O and special purpose blades for 'plug and solve' configuration flexibility. The Altix 450 supports Dual-Core Intel Itanium Processors and offers easy upgrade or expansion of CPU, memory, I/O or visualization capabilities.
- SGI Altix ICE Clusters - Innovative new integrated blade server with breakthrough density, power efficiency and reliability.
- SGI Altix XE Servers and Clusters - Ultra-dense platform powered by Intel Dual and Quad-core Xeon Processor architecture, Altix XE provides industry-leading energy efficiency and performance in factory-integrated, customizable clusters.