Landmark, a part of Halliburton’s (NYSE: HAL) Digital and Consulting Solutions Division, selected the new Silicon Graphics Prism

The West McLaren Mercedes Formula One team is pleased to announce a new Official Supplier, Silicon Graphics (SGI), for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) supercomputing, storage and visualisation equipment.
The SGI Altix solution will enable the aerodynamics team to model the West McLaren Mercedes Formula One cars — capturing data that will allow them to review and improve the airflow movement around the car by making design adjustments to car shape, with the aim of gaining the all important, faster lap times.
SGI PRISM will load the ‘jobs’ which the engineers are running, they are then scheduled onto the SGI Altix and results are displayed back to the PRISM for display and review. The file sharing capability of SGI’s CXFS (shared file system) across a Visual Area Network (VAN), enables all the McLaren engineers to access the files 24/7 with no files being moved across the network — thereby optimizing workflow and engineer productivity.
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To accelerate insight into large engineering data sets by leveraging computation and visualization on a single computer platform, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that AVL List GmbH — Advanced Simulation Technologies has certified two widely used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and three major Structural Dynamics software applications for Silicon Graphics Prism(TM) visualization systems. The newly certified AVL applications are respectively FIRE and SWIFT for CFD, and EXCITE, GLIDE, TYCON for Structural Dynamics Analysis.
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Silicon Graphics (SGI) has launched an aggressive global channel recruitment drive with the aim of switching to a 70 per cent indirect sales strategy by 2008.
The vendor, which specialises in high-performance computing (HPC), visualisation and storage, has also launched its Channel Connection Programme. This will enable partners to develop new business opportunities in the low- to mid-range HPC market and dig deeper into existing markets.
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The UK National Grid Service (NGS) passed a significant milestone in May when Cardiff and Bristol universities joined as the first non-founder members of the service by making some of their computing facilities available on the