1. Silicon Graphics, Inc. Poster Presented by: SGI Proprietary Technologies for Breakthrough Research Rosario Caltabiano North East Higher Education & Research Conformal Computing 2005

2. | | October 14, 2005Page 2SGI Proprietary Summary High Performance Computing Parallel MATLAB with Star-P FPGA’s for Reconfigurable Application Specific Computing (RASC) Visualization of Very Large Data Sets High Performance Scalable Storage One Multipurpose System

3. | | October 14, 2005Page 3SGI Proprietary Linux High Performance Computing Extreme Shared Memory Scalability Mid-Range Divisional Capability SGI ® Altix ® 3700 BX2 Servers and Superclusters SGI ® Altix ® 350 Servers and Clusters Image courtesy: NASA Ames Global Shared Memory up to 24 TB NUMALink Scalable Interconnect Modular Growth (CPU’s, Memory, I/O) Scalable to 1024 Processors Single System Image 64-bit Linux 128p System Topology Example

4. | | October 14, 2005Page 4SGI Proprietary Parallel MATLAB Star-P TM : A Faster Path to New Science Keeping Scientists Focused on Research Star-P enables new science by extending the MATLAB ® environment to large memories and multiple processors. Star-P started as a research project at MIT and is being commercialized and distributed by SGI MATLAB ® Parallel System Star-P Use MATLAB ® on your Desktop Client Minimum MATLAB ® code Changes Parallel MATLAB ® Execution Large MATLAB ® Arrays Run your MATLAB ® Program in Parallel Without having to know Parallel Processing

5. | | October 14, 2005Page 5SGI Proprietary Reconfigurable Application Specific Computing FPGA SGI TIO ASIC 6.4GB/s Memory I/O Direct connect to NUMAlink (6.4 GB/sec) Atomic Memory Operations Hardware Barriers - Load Balancing NUMAlink Global Shared Memory Fabric Altix RASC Module NL4 Ports (6.4GB/s x 2) Virtex2 6000 -6 FPGA Aware Gnu Debugger Configurations to 128 NUMA/FPGA Nodes Production Quality SGI Altix High Performance Computer

6. | | October 14, 2005Page 6SGI Proprietary SGI Prism - Very Large Data Visualization Multiple Users - Multiple monitors - Improved workflow Composited Graphics - Scalable Single Screen Performance Multiple Synchronized displays - Immersive Visualization Visual Area Network - Remote Access - Remote Collaborative Sessions Large Data Sets Scalable Compute and Large Memory Scalable I/O Scalable Graphics 64 Bit Linux

7. | | October 14, 2005Page 7SGI Proprietary High Performance, Scalable Storage CXFS Clustered File System Infrastructure With SGI® InfiniteStorage Shared File System CXFS™ All files are shared No copying No wasted space With SGI® InfiniteStorage Shared File System CXFS™ All files are shared No copying No wasted space Public LAN File B File D File E File F File G File H File I File A File C FC switch IRIX ® Windows ® Sun ™ Linux ® AIX ® NAS Gateway Metadata Private Network metadata server Disk Array PetaByte Scalability - Gigabytes/sec I/O Bandwidth

8. | | October 14, 2005Page 8SGI Proprietary ONE Multipurpose System SGI ® Altix/Prism Network-Attached Storage CXFS Shared File Access over SAN Nearline Storage Windows Sun ™ Linux ® AIX ® Local & Remote Visualization High Data Volume Sensors Storage Shared Memory High Performance Computer Parallel MATLAB HPC Server RASC (FPGA) Computing Platform