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RENO, Nev., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Supercomputing 2007 –
SGI (Nasdaq: SGIC) today unveiled new cluster nodes and processor upgrades
aimed at increasing the performance of SGI(R) Altix(R) XE clusters while
maintaining their ability to deploy quickly, consume power efficiently, and
help keep data centers running cooler.
SGI is extending its Altix XE line of servers and clusters with two new
models powered by next-generation 45nm Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processors: the
Quad- Core Intel Xeon 5400 Series “Harpertown” and Dual-Core Intel Xeon
5200 Series “Wolfdale.”
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Companies needing
business analysis for applications such as revenue protection, social
network analysis, fraud detection, Web analytics, biometrics, RFID and
complex event processing can now achieve at least an order of magnitude
improvement in application performance with a landmark, memory-centric,
energy-efficient computing solution from FedCentric Technologies, an SGI
(Nasdaq: SGIC) and Oracle Value Added Reseller. The FedCentric MCDB
Accelerator solution will be demonstrated at Oracle OpenWorld, November
11-15 at the Moscone Center West Booth #3424 in San Francisco.
Powered by SGI(R) Altix(R) 4700 or SGI(R) Altix(R) 450 servers, the
FedCentric MCDB Accelerator solution uses in-memory database technology to
provide significant improvement in response time and throughput over
traditional disk-based systems.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) today announced it built the world’s largest Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) supercomputer configuration, then ran a broadly used bioinformatics application more than 900 times faster than the same application would run on a traditional cluster.
SGI’s reconfigurable supercomputer featured 70 FPGAs, more than any single system built to date. SGI’s FPGA supercomputer accelerated the performance of a complex BLAST-n query by more than 900 times, completing in less than 33 minutes what took a 68-node Opteron-based cluster approximately three weeks to finish. (1) The application matched 20 nucleotide base pairs against 600,000 queries.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) today announced financial results for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2008, which ended September 28, 2007.

First Quarter FY08 Highlights
Overall in its first quarter, SGI:

• Grew bookings more than 40% over the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007 with key wins in target growth areas
• Continued stability in pro forma results
• Achieved its goals for revenue, expenses and cash

“The first step in our growth strategy is to increase our bookings, so I’m very pleased with our order rate this quarter,” said Bo Ewald, SGI Chief Executive Officer. “We saw very good momentum in our bookings, with an increase of 43% over Q4. I’m particularly encouraged by the composition and mix of the Q1 orders, which came from across our target markets with the largest single order being under $5M. That is a good step in our plan to build our base of customers without having to rely on very large single system orders.”
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WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) – Silicon Graphics Inc (SGIC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) filed with regulators on Thursday to periodically sell up to $100 million in common stock.
The company said in a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it would use the proceeds from the offering for sales and marketing, research and development, and general corporate purposes.
Under a shelf registration, a company may sell securities in one or more separate offerings with the size, price and terms to be determined at the time of sale.
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