Weare delighted to extend our collaboration with CINES, which began 10 years agowhen CINES acquired large shared memory SGI servers. This acquisition againshows how SGI can offer a very powerful solution for higher education andresearch that meets the needs of the most demanding customers in the world.'
'As demonstrated by GENCI, HPC is fast becoming an indispensable tool forbusinesses, educational institutions and governments, who require it to solvethe increasingly complex scientific and engineering problems of today,' saidChristian Morales, vice president and general manager, Intel EMEA. 'The IntelXeon multi-core processors in this SGI deployment deliver the best energy-efficient performance for the CINES installation.'
With its new SGI InfiniteStorage 4600 RAID system, GENCI will deployseventh-generation technology within a proven solution architecture built onmore than 25 years of industry-leading high-performance storage expertise. Tokeep up with the I/O-intensive applications commonly used in science andengineering, the new system will reach 175,000 sustained IOPS (Input/OutputOperations per Second). The flexible system allows GENCI to scale as its needsevolve, while ensuring that data is always available to researchers.
For more information on the SGI Altix ICE integrated blade platform,http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/ice/ . For information on SGIInfiniteStorage solutions, visit: http://www.sgi.com/products/storage/.
About GENCI
GENCI, Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif, is a legal entity orcivil company under French law. It is 50 percent owned by the French Staterepresented by the Ministry for Higher Education and Research, 20 percent bythe CEA, 20 percent by the CNRS and 10 percent by French Universities. Createdin January 2007, GENCI has the following missions:
-- To promote the use of modeling, simulation and High-Performance Computing (HPC) in fundamental and industrial research -- To promote the organization of European HPC and participate to its actions -- To set in place and coordinate the major computer hardware for the French HPC centers for civil research, by providing for their financing and assuming their ownership -- To perform all research required for developing and optimizing the utilization of computing hardware -- To make the hardware it owns available to all interested scientific communities, academic or industrial, national, European or international.
For more information, visit: http://www.genci.fr .
About CINES
CINES (National Computer Centre for Higher Education), based inMontpellier, France, provides the scientific community with the powerful meansto pursue public research. It is a national public institution under theauthority of the Minister of Research.
-- CINES offers laboratories the opportunity to exploit their codes on parallel supercomputing computing resources.
