Altix is the name of a family by high speed servers of SGI with Itanium processors of the company Intel is equipped. Depending upon model a Altix up to 512 processors can have. As operating system an adapted Linux is used.

The Altix line was introduced 2003 with the Altix 3000. The architecture (ccNUMA) and the mechanical structure are identical to the Origin 3000 equipped with MIPS processors. Over the intermediate stage of the Altix 3700, which essentially introduced a higher device complexity, 2005 the Altix 4700 was introduced the one completely new modularity concept based on Blades has.

Systems of the Altix family will be equipped with a diagram module it as Prism designated.

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