[Unix-help] UNIX User Group Meeting 17-June-2004, 1:30 PM

[Robert M. Lang]

Hello,

The June Unix User Group meeting will be held Thursday, June 17th at 1:30
PM and will feature a presentation by SGI about the ALTIX system. The
abstract is pasted below.

The meeting will be held in N42 Demo Center.

I won't be able to attend, so I would be grateful if a member could step
forward to convene the meeting at 1:30 and introduce the folks from SGI.
Also, if anyone wants to take notes to share with folks that can't be
there and forward those notes to the list, that would be appreciated too.

Regards,
rml
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      Technical Overview of the SGI Altix System
  and SGI's Roadmap for Linux Visualization Systems

                  Dr. Jack Perry
         SGI Scientific Computing Specialist


The SGI Altix family of shared-memory parallel servers and supercomputers is
based on the same CC-NUMA architecture as the SGI Origin system, but is
built with Intel Itanium-2 processors and runs 64-bit Linux.  The
industry-leading performance of Itanium-2 combines with SGI's unique
high-bandwidth low-latency shared memory architecture to produce a platform
that has achieved numerous world-record benchmark results.  With this
platform, it is possible to run a 256-processor shared-memory scalable
platform under the control of a single Linux kernel.  A description of
SGI's plan to add scalable graphics and graphics development toolkits to the
Itanium-2/Linux platform will also be provided.  Lastly, a brief overview
of Viz 3D - a portable, passive stereo visualization system.


The topics covered in this technical presentation are:

1.  Intel Itanium-2 Roadmap
2.  Altix NUMAflex Architecture and Configurations
3.  SGI Advanced Linux Environment and Linux Strategy
4.  Development Environment, Parallel Programming Models
5.  Altix Customer Examples in Research and Engineering
6.  SGI Roadmap for Scalable Visualization under Linux
7.  Viz 3D - stereo 3D visualization solutions