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LAS VEGAS and NEW YORK, April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — NAB Booth SL4314 — The National Basketball Association (NBA) and SGI NASDAQ: SGIC today announced a multiyear extension of their relationship to expand the league’s groundbreaking digital workflow and media management system, the NBA Digital Media Management System.

After successfully unveiling the NBA Digital Media Management System with SGI during the 2006-07 NBA season, the first-of-its-kind system in professional sports enabled the league to simultaneously ingest and archive footage from up to 14 NBA games, edit the archival content on the fly, provide full game broadcasts, clips and other NBA content to 214 countries worldwide.

The extended relationship between the two companies will enable the NBA to accelerate and double the historical digital archiving effort by ingesting 60,000 hours of video content each year. Overall, the entire history of the NBA archive, which contains more than 400,000 hours of content dating back to 1946, will ultimately be digitized.

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In the 1980s and early 1990s, if you were doing anything serious in computer graphics you were doing it with SGI gear. Then a series of strategic missteps and the emergence of incredibly powerful, cheap graphics cards for PCs made the company’s graphics lines irrelevant, and for nearly a decade they’ve survived as a server company. The SGI Virtu line announced this week steers SGI back into graphics for what it says is the long haul. But is there a market left to capture?

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Virtu VN200 Delivers Advanced Real-time Visualization for Collaborative and Standalone Environments
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (April 8, 2008)—SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) today launched the first entry in the Virtu solutions family, a new generation of SGI® visualization systems. The SGI® Virtu VN200 is designed to power the performance visualization needs of today’s HPC and commercial business users.

The Virtu VN200 solution brings a new level of productivity, flexibility, power and accuracy to engineers, scientists and creative professionals. It accelerates the adoption of visualization within environments that must process today’s large data sets. The Virtu VN200 solution, combined with patented SGI intellectual property, empowers users to analyze visual models in a centralized environment and then view their simulations anywhere.

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ORLANDO, Fla., Storage Networking World, April 7 — A powerful new RAID storage system from will help organizations meet the escalating bandwidth and I/O demands of today’s performance-driven applications. Unveiled today, the SGI InfiniteStorage 4600 augments the InfiniteStorage product line, extending its ability to provide leading-edge data management solutions to scientific, engineering and high-performance business environments.

The SGI InfiniteStorage 4600 is targeted at data-intensive applications, high I/O workloads, and large-scale consolidation. The new system answers the escalating data management needs of today’s workflows with the flexibility to combine an array of network interfaces and disk drives in a single system.

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. and READING, England, April 1, 2008
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — To date, Honda has secured 72 Grand Prix victories and 11 FIA Formula One World Championship titles — including six constructors’ and five drivers’ crowns. The Honda Racing F1 Team, based in Brackley, UK, installed in September a high performance SGI(R) Altix(R) ICE integrated blade platform, which it expects to make a significant impact on the contribution provided by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) during the 2008 Formula One season.

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