SGI Upgrades Its Rackable and CloudRack Product Families

SGI has recently announced that the company is now offering pre-configured solutions for its SGI Rackable and SGI CloudRack C2 family of rackmount and tray-based servers. These support Hadoop as the overlying application layer, and can be designed and built with the customer's choice of processors.

The company's new designs take advantage of the technologies introduced in the SGI Rackable and CloudRack server lines over the past quarter and come in a standard 42U size, with an extension allowing up to 48U.

Customers can opt for a water cooled configuration with rear mounted radiators and the cabinetry features a back-to-back arrangement with a center chimney cooling for half-depth chassis.

Outside of its CloudRack solutions, SGI has also completed a major refresh to its Rackable standard-depth and half-depth chassis product family, which now feature 6Gbps SAS host and drive connectivity.

In addition, the Rackable chassis have gained compatibility with 3TB SATA hard drives, adding increased density to the current lineup of 2.5 and 3.5 inch SATA, SAS and SSD offerings.

“As an open source, data-intensive programming framework, Hadoop is exploding in popularity," said Bill Mannel, vice president of product marketing at SGI.

“SGI offers a unique combination of eco-friendly hardware, open software, and expert services and support, making SGI the ideal choice for Hadoop customers.

“We recently completed construction of a very large Hadoop cluster for a customer in our Chippewa Falls, Wisc., manufacturing facility, providing customized management software, and allowing our customer to use and test its system while its datacenter was being completed,” concluded the company's rep.

SGI's pre-configured solutions are available right now for ordering and shipment. Pricing will be disclosed upon request.