SGI secures contract to supply Imperial College London with high performance computing solution

Silicon Graphics International Corp (“SGI”) (NASDAQ; SGI) has been awarded a contract to supply a Massively Parallel Processing (“MPP”) solution to act as Imperial College London’s high end HPC (high performance computing) system.

“Imperial College required an advanced computing solution for students and researchers to conduct course work and research that depend on extremely complex process modelling,” SGI stated. “The college selected the SGI dual-rail Infiniband supercomputer, Altix ICE 8200 EX, which uses the latest Intel(R) Xeon(R) Nehalem processors.”
The SGI installations will provide a central service to handle all study and research applications common to HPC academia, including computational fluid dynamics, and weather and ocean modelling.

"Due to the complex nature of the target applications, speed, performance and low latency are critical factors for our HPC users," said Simon Burbidge, HPC coordination manager at Imperial College London. "The new SGI installation has proven to perform very well across these attributes and will enable researchers at the university to tackle larger, more difficult problems than ever before."

SGI will also provide dedicated in-house application expertise to Imperial College London as part of the partnership.

"Imperial College London is at the absolute forefront of technological development and scientific understanding," said Rod Evans, vice president of sales for Northern Europe at SGI. "Altix ICE will help drive its academic research to new levels with highly reliable, extremely energy efficient and scalable hardware, allowing them to continually evolve their HPC capabilities."  http://www.proactiveinvestors.com/companies/news/3472/sgi-secures-contract-to-supply-imperial-college-london-with-high-performance-computing-solution-3472.html