SGI announced new Origin 3000 series as the successor of the Origin 2000 series, which was called SN 1 and the old Onyx. It is based on the Origin 3000 too. SGI officials said that the O3000 is a combination of the best features of Origin 2000 and Cray T3E - and thus their successor. SGI plans two different series, a MIPS and IRIX and a IA64 and Linux based system. A maximum of 512 MIPS processors can be connected in one machine.
More processors have to be clustered.
SGI has developed an new, modular concept for this machine, NUMAflex. The building blocks are bricks. The user can build the machine that optimally fits his needs. First systems have been shipped to NASA Ames Research Center and the Engineering Research Development Center of the US Army in America. The first German machine will be installed in August at the Center for High-Performace Computing at the Technical University Dresden.