SGI Origin 2000 is a family of mid-range and high-end server computers developed and manufactured by Silicon Graphics .
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10 Facts About Origin 2000
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Origin 2000 2100 is mostly the same as the other models except that it is not upgradeable to other models.
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Highest CPU count that SGI marketed for the Origin 2000 is 128 CPUs; above 64 CPUs the product was originally branded "CRAY Origin 2000" since Cray Research has just been merged with SGI.
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Three Origin 2000 models are capable of using 512 CPUs and 512 GB of memory but these were never marketed as a system to customers.
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One of the 512-CPU Origin 2000 series was installed at SGI's facility in Eagan, Minnesota for test purposes and the other two were sold to NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California for specialized scientific computing.
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Largest installation of SGI Origin 2000 series was Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative Blue Mountain at Los Alamos National Labs.
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Each Origin 2000 module is based on nodes that are plugged into a backplane.
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Origin 2000 200 uses some of the architectural components, but in a very different physical realization that is not scalable.
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An Origin 2000 system is composed of nodes linked together by an interconnection network.
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The Origin 2000's network topology is a bristled fat hypercube.
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