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Linux Scalability for the Altix 3000: A Software Environment for HPC Applications

Overview The SGI Altix system was designed to bring the performance advantages of robust shared-memory architecture into an industry-standard, open-source Linux environment. The purpose of this paper is to describe the features, scalability enhancements, and additional tools implemented in SGI’s Linux Environment for Altix. These include scalability enhancements to the kernel, I/O enhancements, storage and system management enhancements, and development tools.

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Publisher	SGI	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	October 2003	Downloads	52
Format	White Papers
Topics	High Performance Computing, Supercomputers, Linux Server OS

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