Silicon Graphics has introduced two new models of the Origin200 server, a cc-NUMA (cache-coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access) system, which manages and moves vast amounts of data at a fraction of previously possible prices. In the Origin200 GIGAchannel and Origin200 QC models, the cache runs at the same speed as the processor, increasing speed by 50 percent over previous models.
"The new models are designed for data-intensive and compute-intensive applications and provide users with a departmental-class solution at workgroup server prices," says James Chiweshe, MD of Silicon Graphics sub-Saharan Africa. "They are ideally suited for Web serving, interoperable file serving, multi-tiered database management or media streaming applications."
XIO, the proven high-end I/O subsystem of the Origin2000 servers, has been incorporated into the Origin200 GIGAchannel raising the Origin200 I/O bandwidth to unprecedented sustainable gigabyte/second rates. The Origin200 GIGAchannel server suits I/O-intensive applications requiring high ratios of bandwidth-to-processor performance, while scaling up to four processors.
The server's breakthrough I/O bandwidth - up to 1.15GB per second sustained rate - achieves from three to six times higher throughput than similar UNIX servers, raising storage capacities and enabling the handling of requests from more network interfaces. Each Origin200 GIGAchannel server offers five XIO slots, expandable to 10 slots, as well as seven PCI slots in total.
The Origin200 QC includes the Silicon Graphics Quick Cache high-performance cache subsystem with a larger, 50% faster cache. Taking full advantage of the increased processor-to-cache bandwidth, tuned libraries and optimised compilers accelerate operation of computation-intensive applications such as oil and gas exploration, scientific research and so on.
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