Making

Supercomputing SGI® Octane™ III

Personal™

KEY FEATURES Supercomputing Gets Personal by SGI on the shoulders of its ground-breaking
Octane III takes high-performance computing out workstations from the past, Octane III is available
Office Ready of the data center and puts it at the deskside. It as a single-node dual-socket graphics workstation
A pedestal, one foot by two combines the immense power and performance with support for the fastest NVIDIA® graphics and
foot form factor and capabilities of a high-performance cluster with the GP-GPU cards to take high-performance graphics
whisper quiet operation portability and usability of a workstation to enable into the 21st century. Octane III is optimized for
a new era of personal innovation in strategic use with multiple display solutions for expanded
science, research, development and visualization. advanced visual computing scenarios.
High Performance
Up to 80 high-performance
In contrast with standard dual-processor Easily Configurable for Deskside HPC
cores and nearly 1TB of
workstations with only eight cores and moderate Octane III is optimized for your specific, high
memory
memory capacity, the superior design of Octane III performance computing requirements and ships
permits up to 80 high-performance cores and nearly as a factory-tested, pre-integrated platform with
Advanced Graphics
1TB of memory. Octane III significantly accelerates broad HPC application support and arrives ready for
Support for the fastest
time-to-results for over 50 HPC applications and immediate integration for a smooth out-of-the-box
NVIDIA graphics and
supports the latest Intel® processors to capitalize on experience.
GP-GPU cards
greater levels of performance, flexibility and
scalability. Pre-configured with system software, Octane III allows a wide variety of single and
Ease of Use
cluster set up is a breeze. dual-socket node choices and a wide selection of
No data center infrastruture
performance, storage, graphics, GP-GPU and
required; support for
Plug It In and It Works integrated networking options. Configurations
standard office power
Octane III is office ready with a pedestal, one foot are available in a variety of build-to-order cluster
outlets
by two foot form factor, whisper quiet operation, configurations, including 18-node single-socket and
Broad HPC Application ease of use features, low maintenance requirements nine-node dual-socket models.
Support and support for standard office power outlets. A
Accelerated time-to-results single, conveniently placed button turns it on and Supported operating systems include: Microsoft®
with support for over 50 off. Octane III enjoys the same cost saving power Windows® HPC Server 2008, SUSE Linux® Enterprise
HPC applications efficiencies inherent in all SGI Eco-Logical™ compute Server, or Red Hat® Enterprise Linux. All Linux-based
designs. configurations are available with pre-loaded SGI®
Easily Configurable ProPack™ system software, SGI® Isle™ Cluster
A wide range of A High-Performance Graphics Lineage Manager and Altair PBS Pro™ scheduler to get you
performance, processor, Capitalize on advanced graphics capabilities, brought up and running quickly.
memory and networking to you by the same company that invented advanced
options; broad OS support graphics capabilities. Conceived, designed and built
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Octane III Hardware Specifications

Model Number OC3-10TY12 OC3-19DV1 OC3-TY11
Configuration Type Deskside Cluster Deskside Cluster Graphics Workstation
Enclosure Type Pedestal Pedestal Pedestal
Max. Nodes & Max. Trays 10 dual-socket (10 trays) 19 single-socket (10 trays) One dual-socket (one tray)
Chipset Ten Intel® 5500 Intel® 945GC Two Intel® 5520
Max. Processors 20 Intel® Xeon® quad-core 5500 series (two/ 19 Intel® dual-core Atom™ (one/node) Two Intel Xeon quad-core 5500 series (two/
node) node)

Max. Cores 80 (eight/node) 38 (two/node) Eight

Max. Memory
Memory Slots & Type
Hard Disk Drives & Max.
Capacity
SAS RAID
Expansion Slots
Graphics & GP-GPU Options
Networking (Onboard)
Integrated Networking Switch
IPMI Remote Management
Cooling Architecture
Power Architecture
Input Power
Dimensions
*SAS RAID option requires dedicating PCI-E 2.0 x4 slot to RAID card
960GB (96GB/node)
120 x 1333/1066/800 MHz DDR3 ECC reg. or
unbuffered (12/node)
Ten 2.5" (max. 5TB) SATA II quick-release drives
(one/node)
N/A
N/A
N/A
Dual GigE (Intel 82576)/node
GigE or InfiniBand (DDR or QDR)
Integrated IPMI 2.0 + KVM
N+1 redundant cooling fans in front and back
of enclosure. Front-to-back airflow.
Up to four 1000W power supplies (redundant
power optional). 99% efficient PowerXE™
12VDC internal power distribution.
Two 120V 15A circuits, one L5-20 or one L6-20
27.5” x 12.5" x 26.1”
76GB (2GB/node)
19 x 800 MHz unbuffered non-ECC DDR2 (one/
node)
Two 2.5" (max. 1TB) SATA II quick-release
drives on head node. Compute nodes are
diskless.
N/A
N/A
N/A
One GigE (Realtek RTL8111C)/node
GigE
N/A
N+1 redundant cooling fans in front and back
of enclosure. Front-to-back airflow.
Up to four 1000W power supplies (redundant
power optional). 99% efficient PowerXE 12VDC
internal power distribution.
Two 120V 15A circuits, one L5-20 or one L6-20
27.5” x 12.5" x 26.1”
144GB
18 x 1333/1066/800 MHz DDR3 ECC reg. or
unbuffered
Four 3.5" (max. 8TB) SAS or SATA II quick-
release drives
JBOD, 0, 1, 5, 10*
Two PCI-E 2.0 x16, four PCI-E 2.0 x8 and one
PCI-E 2.0 x4*
NVIDIA® Quadro® FX1800, FX3800, FX4800,
FX5800. NVIDIA® Tesla™ C1060.
Dual GigE (Intel 82576)
N/A
Integrated IPMI 2.0 + KVM
N+1 redundant cooling fans in front and back
of enclosure. Front-to-back airflow.
Up to four 1000W power supplies (redundant
power optional). 99% efficient PowerXE 12VDC
internal power distribution.
Two 120V 15A circuits, one L5-20 or one L6-20
27.5” x 12.5" x 26.1”

Octane III Software Specifications

Model Number
Linux Platform Software
Microsoft® Windows®
Platform Software
Virtualization Capabilities
OC3-10TY12 OC3-19DV1 OC3-TY11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5; SUSE Linux Enter- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5; SUSE Linux Enter- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5; SUSE Linux Enter-
prise Server 10, 11; SGI ProPack 6; SGI ISLE prise Server 10, 11; SGI ProPack 6; SGI ISLE prise Server 10, 11; SGI ProPack 6; SGI ISLE
Cluster Manager; Altair PBS Pro Scheduler Cluster Manager; Altair PBS Pro Scheduler Cluster Manager; Altair PBS Pro Scheduler
Microsoft® Windows Server 2008, Microsoft® N/A N/A
Windows® HPC Server 2008
VMWare ESX 4.0 N/A N/A

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