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The SGI Altix 3000 Global Shared-Memory Architecture

Overview This paper describes the global shared memory architecture and benefits of the SGI Altix 3000 family of servers and super-clusters. Memory size and scaling, cache organization and coherency, nodes and inter-node memory access, bandwidths and latencies, and RAS features are all discussed. The paper is written from a perspective that may be useful to an applications developer or a system administrator. It describes the current implementation of the Altix 3000 system communication infrastructure.

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Publisher	SGI	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	April 2003	Downloads	105
Format	White Papers
Topics	High Performance Computing, Supercomputers

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