System overview of the SGI Origin 200/2000 product line

Author

Laudon, J. ; Lenoski, D.

Author_Institution

Silicon Graphics Comput. Syst., Mountain View, CA, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

23-26 Feb. 1997

Firstpage

150

Lastpage

156

Abstract

The SGI Origin 200/2000 is a cache-coherent non-uniform memory access (ccNUMA) multiprocessor, designed and manufactured by Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI). The Origin system was designed from the ground up as a multiprocessor that was capable of scaling to both small and large processor counts without any cost, bandwidth or latency cliffs. The Origin system consists of up to 512 nodes interconnected by a highly scalable Craylink network. Each node consists of one or two R10000 processors and up to 4 GBytes of coherent memory. Each node also connects to the scalable XIO I/O subsystem. This paper discusses the motivation for building the Origin 200/2000 and describes its architecture and implementation.

Keywords

cache storage; computer evaluation; multiprocessing systems; multiprocessor interconnection networks; reconfigurable architectures; 4 GB; R10000 processors; SGI Origin 200/2000; Silicon Graphics Inc.; bandwidth; cache-coherent nonuniform memory access multiprocessor; ccNUMA multiprocessor; coherent memory; cost; implementation; interconnected nodes; latency; processor number; scalable Craylink network; scalable XIO I/O subsystem; system architecture; Bandwidth; Coherence; Costs; Delay; Graphics; Manufacturing; Microprocessors; Power system modeling; Silicon; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Compcon '97. Proceedings, IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA, USA

ISSN

1063-6390

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7804-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPCON.1997.584688

Filename

584688