The new Top500 list reveals how SGI Altix ICE leads the way among industry-standard systems:

• Fastest industry-standard supercomputer. With the debut at No. 3 of the new NASA Pleiades system, SGI Altix ICE maintains its position as the performance leader among industry-standard clusters.
• Leading energy efficiency. SGI Altix ICE powers the two most energy-efficient industry-standard systems in the list's top 20 (NASA at No. 3 and Total Exploration Production at No. 17).
• Leading performance efficiency. Among industry-standard systems in the top 20, three SGI Altix ICE systems deliver the best LINPACK benchmark performance efficiency (NASA at No. 3, Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif - GENCI at No. 14, and Total at No. 17). All three systems deliver 80 percent or better of their peak performance when running the LINPACK benchmark.

"Since its introduction last year, the SGI Altix ICE platform has shown what can be achieved by combining innovation with industry-standard technologies", stated Dave Parry, senior vice president, server products and operations at Silicon Graphics Inc. "The No. 3-ranked NASA Pleiades and many other SGI Altix ICE systems lead the Top500 in energy and LINPACK performance efficiency. Just as importantly, they managed all these achievements without resorting to specialized accelerators. Just imagine if they had."

Compared to the most recent Top500 list released in June, Silicon Graphics led the industry with a 40 percent increase in the number of SGI systems appearing in the Top 50, and a 300 percent increase in its Top 20 systems.

Silicon Graphics will demonstrate its high-productivity compute, storage and visualization solutions in Booth 1009 at the SC08 International Conference, November 15-21 at the Austin Convention Center in Austin, Texas.