Altix

Altix is the name of a family of high-performance servers from Silicon Graphics (SGI ), which are equipped with Intel Itanium processors. Depending on the model, an Altix have up to 4096 processors. The operating system is a customized Linux is used.

The Altix line was introduced in 2003 with the Altix 3000. The system architecture ( ccNUMA ) and the mechanical structure are identical to the equipped with MIPS processors Origin 3000th via the intermediate stage of the Altix 3700, which introduced a higher integration density, essentially, 2005, the Altix 4700 was introduced with a whole new modularization concept based on blades.

If the Altix family systems equipped with a graphics module, they called Prism.