NUMAlink 3 is the third generation of the interconnect, introduced in 2000 and used in the Origin 3000 and Altix 3000.
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NUMAlink 5 is the fifth generation of the interconnect, introduced in 2009 and used in the Altix UV series.
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NUMAlink 4 is the fourth generation of the interconnect, introduced in 2004 and used in the Altix 4000.
Released in April 2005, the Prism's basic system architecture was based on the Altix 3000 servers, but with graphics hardware.
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For data analysis, different computational resources, ranging from a high-performance Cluster Server to Dell servers to Silicon Graphics SGI Altix-350 and 450, were used.