Largest SGI Altix System in the State, with 10TB of SGI InfiniteStorage, Powers Major Research in Biological and Medical Research
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- To dramatically
upgrade education and research in high-performance computing, the University
of South Carolina (USC)(http://www.sc.edu) has added a powerful mix of SGI
(Nasdaq: SGIC) server and storage technology. Installed in April, the SGI(R)
Altix(R) system and SGI InfiniteStorage 4000 will be used primarily for
bioinformatics, computational biology and medical research. The SGI(R)
Altix(R) 4700 system is by far the largest shared memory system in South
Carolina for academic usage, according to USC. USC plans to share the system
with other universities within the state.
SGI Delivers Data-Intensive Solutions:
-- USC added a combination of SGI high performance compute and storage
solutions for faster time to insight in bioinformatics and medical imaging
research.
-- Because clusters limited the size and scope of the researchers'
experiment models, data searches and genome sequencing efforts, USC purchased
the largest shared memory system in the state, an SGI Altix 4700, for the data
intensive applications their scientific research required.
'For the data intensive needs of this research we needed a shared memory
system, and there aren't many out there that are true shared memory -- that
was the primary reason we selected SGI Altix,' said Dr. Duncan Buell, chair of
the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. 'The Altix met our
specifications while delivering superior price-performance.'
Purchased through SGI-exclusive higher education reseller, James River
Technical, Inc. (JRTI) with a National Science Foundation (http://www.nsf.gov)
grant (PI Dr. Jijun Tang, Co-PIs Drs. John Rose, Homayoun Valafar and Song
Wang, key personnel Drs.
