FUSION1200® is a scalable 8 to 32-processor SMP system for the High Performance Technical Computing (HPTC) market. Available in both deskside and 19-inch rack-mount design, the FUSION1200® is a scalable alternative to traditional RISC based servers. FUSION1200® Series is an enterprise-class system for an IT department looking to leverage the benefits of Intel® standards in a data center. With the flexibility to grow from 8 to 32 Intel® Xeon® processors (quad or dual core), the FUSION1200® Series scales beyond conventional Intel® based platforms while delivering superior price-performance compared to traditional high-end servers. The SMP operational model of the FUSION1200® provides reduced management costs compared to clusters. This Intel® Xeon® processor based server, supporting Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technology and the ScaleMP® vSMP architecture, is the ideal platform for clients with applications that require high processor count and large shared memory.
Giving users more flexibility in how they configure systems to attack various workloads was a big thread running through SC09 last year. At the show, we took at look at three different companies who are, in one way or another, providing large system images. (Click to see our posts on ScaleMP, 3Leaf, and SGI.)
ScaleMP, a maker of virtualization and aggregation software that allows a cluster of x64 servers to look like a big, bad, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) shared-memory system to operating systems and selected classes of applications, is going downstream to target SMBs and upstream to chase cloud infrastructure providers.