"SGI has had a long history on focusing on the price-performance ratio," Albanese said. "When you look at the larger clusters, the price-performance ratio will really pay dividends. So we expect that SGI will have a very strong offering in that market."

In a benchmark SGI executed this month, a 20-node SGI Hadoop cluster was able to sort through 100 gigabytes of data in 130 seconds. The cluster consisted of SGI Rackable C2005-TY6 half-depth servers, each running Intel Xeon E5630 processors, and sporting 48 gigabytes of memory, and four 1 terabyte SATA hard drives.

SGI will reveal pricing, reference configurations and other additional details of the offering when launches the line of clusters at the Hadoop World conference, in New York Nov. 8 and 9.

The IDG News Service