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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SGI announced today that it plans to release its fourth quarter 2007 and FY2007 financial results after the market closes on Thursday, August 30, 2007. The Company has scheduled a Webcast and conference call to discuss results on Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. PDT.
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The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation last week announced a new benchmark that gauges the performance of parallel computer clusters that make use of the popular Message Passing Interface (MPI) protocols that lash the machines together so they can cooperate to do computational jobs.
The SPEC MPI2007 test was created with the assistance of Argonne National Lab in the United States and the University of Dresden in Germany as well as with support from Advanced Micro Devices, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, QLogic, and Sun Microsystems. The test comes in 32-bit and 64-bit modes, and runs on Linux, Unix, and Windows servers. The current mid-sized dataset for the MPI2007 benchmark works on clusters with up to 512 processors, and SPEC is working to make a larger dataset to test more monstrous clusters.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. and READING, England, July 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Having won more than 150 Grands Prix, 11 drivers’ and eight constructors’ world titles, McLaren is one of the most successful teams in the history of Formula 1. Vodafone McLaren Mercedes currently has a 27-point lead in the 2007 constructors’ world championship, with its drivers Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso lying first and second in the drivers’ standings. Rookie Hamilton also secured consecutive podium finishes in the first nine of the season’s races — something no other Formula 1 driver has ever achieved in their first year of racing.
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McLaren had been using CFD for a number of years when, in 2005, it appointed SGI as its official supplier for CFD supercomputing, storage and visualization equipment. McLaren’s initial purchase included an SGI(R) Altix(R) supercomputer, visualization solutions, SGI(R) InfiniteStorage system and the SGI(R) InfiniteStorage CXFS(TM) shared filesystem. The company has subsequently added to this investment in July 2007, with the addition of (and ongoing enhancements to) two further SGI Altix supercomputers, and the recent introduction of the SGI(R) InfiniteStorage Data Migration Facility (DMF).
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PipelineFX, makers of Qube!™ software, the leading render farm management software for film production, game development, and digital media education around the world, today announced that it will exhibit at SIGGRAPH 2007 in San Diego in booth #337 along with a variety of leading industry partners.
“We are excited to be exhibiting for our sixth consecutive year at SIGGRAPH in beautiful San Diego,” said Richard Lewis, VP of Sales for PipelineFX. “We will publicly debut Qube! 5.2, with full support for 64-bit applications and hardware, satellite rendering support for Autodesk 3D applications and the new “SimpleCMD” interface for generating submission GUI’s quickly and easily. We will also welcome some of our top industry partners to our booth including:
SGI: Showing the SGI Render Management bundle, the team from SGI’s Digital Content Management group will be on hand to show the high-density Altix XE™ rendering server system currently in production at Vanguard Animation.
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