Mr. Geoffrey Noer

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  One of the features that Geoffrey Noer, senior director of product marketing at SGI, emphasized when I talked with him is the decision to pull the fans off the trays; this reduces the vibrations that can shorten the life of components like disk drives, and goes to the engineering effort that SGI has invested in the technologies surrounding the product.
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  No GPU-enabled configurations are available yet, but Noer did say they were coming "this quarter.
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  Regarding pricing, Noer says that the CloudRack X2 enclosure with two server trays has a US list price starting at $20,000.

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  "As Rackable Systems continues to lead the market in large-scale deployment of data server products, we are confident that WD's new RAID Edition drives will enhance our product offerings and bolster our ability to meet the most demanding customer requirements," noted Geoff Noer, senior director of storage products at Rackable Systems.

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  SGI Speaking Session: "Breakthrough Density Energy-Efficiency for Cluster Computing," presented by Geoffrey Noer, senior director of product marketing at SGI.
  
  Date: Thursday, June 25 Time: 11:00-11:30 a.m. EDT Location: Osceola Ballroom 4-6, Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center Topic: Geoffrey Noer will discuss CloudRack™ C2, a solution that delivers dramatic bottom-line savings by assuring maximum power usage and cooling efficiency, as well as offering staggering server densities with up to 1,280 cores per cabinet.

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  Most servers today have one server board and one or two power supplies, said Geoff Noer, senior director of product marketing and management at Rackable.With the new servers two boards share one power supply.
  
  Putting multiple server boards on a single power supply gives better power efficiency when the servers are running at peak load, according to Noer.Rackable's previous servers all came with one power supply per board.
  
  With no redundant power supply option, a power supply failure would affect both connected boards, Noer said.However, data centres would deal with half as many power-supply problems, and large-scale server deployments will be able to absorb the downtime, Noer said.
  
  The new servers, the XE2004-SC1, XE2006-SC1 and XE2006-F1, come with dual-socket boards and support Intel Xeon or Advanced Micro Devices Opteron dual-core and quad-core processors.The AMD-based boards support up to 64GB of memory, and the Intel-based boards support up to 48GB of memory.

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  Rackable's new Eco-Logical storage products feature high-efficiency, low-power consumption and intelligent design intended to improve price performance per watt, in even very complex computing environments, Geoffrey Noer, Rackable's senior director of product management, told eWEEK.ADVERTISEMENT
  
  "We're offering these new, energy-aware systems at about $1,000 per terabyte of capacity, as it scales out,far less than our competitors," Noer said."These new systems are designed for high-end computing,databases, video production, high-level Internet transactions, scientific computations, and the like; there's very low latency in the I/O."
  
  The Fremont, Calif.-based, company, which sold Google its first 10,000 servers in 1999, builds servers that can be clustered to run on Linux to produce storage capacity as high as 273TB per cabinet, a company spokesperson told eWEEK.
  
  Rackable's RapidScale SA2150 appliance uses the company's patented DC Power technology to chart significant power savings in any AC- or DC-based data center, Noer said, while providing performance of up to tens of gigabytes per second of I/O throughput.
  
  "The new RapidScales introduce a bunch of new features, including small file and random IOPS performance, improved HA failover and heterogeneous network support," Noer said.
  
  The RapidScale appliance is designed and built in Rackable Systems' half-depth form factor to enable back-to-back mounting for highest density and cooling ability, Noer said.
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  The new RapidScale incorporates the v2.2 operating system and provides key upgrades, including performance yields that equal twice the metadata performance over previous versions; scalability to hundreds of GB/sec of throughput and hundreds of petabytes of capacity over previous versions; and efficiency, in that it delivers 90 percent-plus of raw disk performance to the client application, Noer said.
  
  Rackable's new OmniStor SE3016 expansion system, also launched Aug. 7, provides a scalable, power-friendly way to add external storage to Rackable Systems servers, Noer said.The new OmniStor SE3016 supports up to 16 SAS or SATA II drives per system with 1.2 GB/second of bandwidth between the server and the storage device.
  
  Mounted back-to-back in a Rackable Systems cabinet, two OmniStor SE3016 systems achieve storage density of 32 drives per 3U of rack space,with up to 416 terabytes per cabinet, Noer said.

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  "The C2005 greatly increases the value of our build-to-order value proposition by delivering an unparalleled level of flexibility," said Geoffrey Noer, vice president of product management at Rackable Systems.

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  Published on: 8/6/2009    Last Visited: 8/6/2009  

  HPC computing normally comes in the form of one- or two-processor workstations or higher-end data center offerings, Geoff Noer, senior director of product marketing at SGI, said in an interview.
  
  CloudRack X2 brings HPC capabilities to those groups, which might have challenging problems or tasks that need more performance than a workstation can deliver, but don't require a full rack-level cluster.
  
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  "The X2 really adds to the deployment capabilities," Noer said.
  
  CloudRack X2 follows on the CloudRack C2 offering that SGI-then called Rackable Systems-rolled out in March. Where CloudRack C2 was aimed at Internet and cloud computing scenarios, X2 is more focused on the HPC and graphics computing environments, Noer said.
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  CloudRack X2 can be deployed as a stand-alone unit or can be installed in standard 19-inch racks, Noer said.

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  If a business has a choice between buying a shipping container full of servers, and building a data center from the ground up, it's a no-brainer, said Geoffrey Noer, a vice-president at Rackable, which sells the ICE Cube Modular Data Center.
  
  "We don't believe there's a good reason to go the traditional route the vast majority of the time," he said.

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  Geoffrey Noer, senior director of product marketing at the new SGI, dodged the direct questions about what SGI would do with regard to the forthcoming Tukwila chips, which are now expected in 2010, several months after the eight-core Nehalem EX processors that share the QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) architecture that made its debut in March with the Nehalem EPs.
  
  Both the Tukwila Itanium and Nehalem EX Xeon processors are designed from the get-go to work in machines that have more than two sockets (although you can use Tukwilas in two-socket servers if you want) and are therefore appropriate for the kickers to the current Altix 4700 shared memory systems. It is not a question of technology, but of what SGI is actually going to do.
  
  "Moving forward, we are looking at ways to cross-pollinate technologies, and we are becoming one company much faster than we anticipated," explains Noer. But when you bring up the Altix 4700 line and the UltraViolet kickers, Noer, like other old SGI executives for the past year, starts hemming and hawing.
  
  "UltraVoilet is Nehalem EX-based, and more details will be available later this year," Noer said. "We're definitely redoubling our effort on this product."

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  "Ultraviolet," the next generation of the high-end SGI Altix servers-a holdover from the old SGI and a key player in the new company's HPC push-will be powered by Intel's upcoming "Nehalem EX" processors rather than the Itanium chip, which the current Altix 4700 systems run on, Geoff Noer, senior director of product marketing at SGI, said in an interview.
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  Noer said SGI officials are touting the ways that Rackable's product line dovetails well with the legacy SGI offerings to give HPC environments a healthy list of options.
  
  The Rackable name has been assigned to the new company's line of scale-out x86 servers-including rack systems and blade servers-and officials have move the legacy Altix ICE HPC blade platform under the Rackable label. The Altix line remains under the SGI label in the scale-up category of systems, Noer said.
  
  The CloudRack C2 system, is an example of how the two companies mesh. The blade system, Rackable launched in the first quarter, has qualities-including high-speed interconnects-that are usable in both enterprise data centers and HPC environments, Noer said.
  
  "This is an area of cross-pollination with the legacy SGI side," he said.
  
  In June, SGI announced new x86 Rackable servers that support both on-board InfiniBand connectivity and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, a move aimed at the HPC space, officials said.
  
  The energy-efficient nature of the Rackable servers will bleed over into the legacy SGI systems, Noer said.
  
  "That's a value to the high-performance computing market as well," he said.
  
  The decision to go with Nehalem EX chips for Ultraviolet rather than Itanium is a part of the power-efficiency story, he said.
  
  "That is a major step forward," Noer said.
  
  In addition, SGI is getting interest from HPC environments in its ICE Cube containerized data center, Noer said. The interest ranges from customers who want to expand their data center capacity but don't want to wait to build onto their facilities to businesses who need temporary capacity increases.
  
  He said the integration within the company has gone well, and that customers-particularly legacy customers of SGI-are responding positively.
  
  "One of [the legacy] SGI's largest challenges was its financial situation," Noer said, alluding to the struggles the former Silicon Valley giant went through over the past decade.
  
  Now that the financial instability is past-and as the new SGI shows off its product roadmap-customers are gaining confidence, he said.

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