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NEW YORK - How shares on the Infoimaging Index fared last week:

After dropping for three straight weeks, Silicon Graphics (nyse: SGI - news - people ) shares shot up 23.5% last week. Shares surged after the advanced graphics computer maker said May 24 it will offer 10-gigabit Ethernet connectivity speeds to process massive data files more quickly.
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Maintaining its unparalleled performance edge in the HPC market, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that its award-winning SGI(R) Altix(R) server easily dominates competitors, including proprietary UNIX(R) systems, with stunning new world records in SPEComp(R) L2001 tests for 64-processor and 128-processor systems.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI), a global leader in high-performance computing, storage and advanced visualization and VizEveryWhere, LLC, an integrator of affordable visualization solutions, announced a United States reseller agreement whereby SGI will sell VizEveryWhere's Viz3D(TM) immersive visualization solution to customers through SGI's Professional Services organization.
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Leveraging its leadership in providing high-performance computing systems to drive innovation in science and entertainment, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) has teamed with Universe Partners, LLC, for the upcoming large-format IMAX film project, Stephen Hawking's Beyond the Horizon.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI), provider of the industry's highest-performing compute, storage and visualization products, today announced that Chairman and CEO Bob Bishop will speak at the Bear Stearns Technology Conference on June 15, 2004.
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Wolfram Research has released a new 64-bit optimized port of Mathematica(R) 5 for users running SGI(R) IRIX(R) 6.5 on MIPS(R) processor-based machines.
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Silicon Graphics (nyse: SGI - news - people ) led the Infoimaging Index for the second week in a row, gaining 8.5% last week.
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To achieve higher resolution weather models that produce extremely precise forecasts for United States military operations all over the world, the U.S. Navy's Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) has again turned to Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI). FNMOC has added to its arsenal of SGI(R) Origin(R) family supercomputers a recently purchased SGI(R) Origin(R) 3900 supercomputer, additional service and support, and on-site SGI Professional Services.
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PONTIAC, Mich., June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Automation Alley, Southeast Michigan's regional technology cluster, has partnered with the National Automotive Center (NAC) in an effort to increase collaboration and business opportunities between the Army and Automation Alley member companies. The NAC, which is a part of the United States Army's Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, works to link industry, academia and government in the development and exchange of automotive technologies that will benefit all sectors.
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SOUTH Australia's universities and government have poured $4.5 million into a 160-processor supercomputer that will allow them to run calculations for complex research at a rate equivalent to 830 billion calculations a second.
The 830 gigaflop Silicon Graphics Altix, running on 1.3GHz Intel Itanium processors, is one of only two in Australia. The other is in Queensland.
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PARIS, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Paradigm(TM), the premier provider of advanced petroleum geoscience and drilling technology to the oil and gas exploration and production industry, and Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) announce that Paradigm's new epos(TM) 3.0-based product suite is now available on the Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processor-based SGI(R) Altix(R) system.
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MONTREAL, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK - News), announced today that post-production company SPIN, with facilities in Toronto, Vancouver and Atlanta, recently purchased two Discreet flame® visual effects systems on the Silicon Graphics® Tezro(TM) 4P visual workstation. The systems were immediately put to test on Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital, ABC's new miniseries about a haunted hospital.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As scientists mark the 50th anniversary of operational numerical weather prediction, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that its high-performance computing technology continues to help drive innovations in weather forecasting and climate research the world over. SGI(R) technology powers weather forecasting in half of the world's weather centers, while high-end SGI systems enable researchers to speed the search for answers to complex questions on environmental trends and global warming.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI), provider of the industry's highest-performing compute, storage and visualization products, today announced the closing of the sale of its Alias graphics software business to Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity investment firm.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- At the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2004 convention recently held in Las Vegas, Nev., Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI - News) won three prestigious awards for innovative broadcast installations on three continents.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW,CA--Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) and IDELIX® Software Inc. today announced the availability of IDELIX's award-winning Pliable Display Technology® (PDT) on SGI® Reality Center® environments within the SGI Customer Briefing Center (CBC) at SGI Headquarters in Mountain View and the Mobile Innovation Center (MIC). The SGI CBC Reality Center facility features a 160-degree seamless, spherical display and demonstrates interactive computing in a collaborative environment, where Pliable Display Technology by IDELIX is currently being deployed on a 16- processor SGI® Onyx® 3000 visualization system with InfiniteReality® graphics and 8Gb of RAM.
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RICHLAND, Wash., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) today announced a research alliance aimed at enabling a new generation of fast and efficient storage technology for data-intensive computing. Part of a long-term collaboration between PNNL and Silicon Graphics, the alliance includes options for more than 2.5 petabytes of storage over the next two years.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) announced that it has received preliminary confirmation from two U.S supercomputing customers of large orders for SGI(R) Altix(R) servers and related SGI(R) InfiniteStorage systems and services. The orders are expected to be delivered primarily in the first two quarters of SGI's next fiscal year, which ends in June 2005. The aggregate value of the orders is expected to be approximately $55 million.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and LONDON, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that an SGI(R) Reality Center(TM) facility has been installed at the University of Wales Swansea, as part of the Digital Technium project, designed to benefit Welsh businesses and academic communities. Partly funded by the Welsh Development Agency (WDA), the SGI Reality Center installation is a new addition to Digital Technium -- a purpose-built facility that houses world-class researchers from the Centers of Excellence, funding experts and intellectual property experts.
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Meet 'Nes' - though he may not have been as nice as he looks. In fact, personality type is now pretty much the only thing we don't know about Nesperennub, an Egyptian priest in his forties who lived 2,800 years ago on the banks of the Nile.
In a technological and historical world first, this weekend the British Museum has unveiled or, more accurately, unwrapped the interior of a mummy that had remained sealed since it was made by masters of the ancient Egyptian craft of mummification. The startling operation was carried out without disturbing the intricate wrappings and amulets that were originally placed around his dead body.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that more than 20 software providers have recently joined the ranks of the Technical Computing Enabling Program (TCEP), a joint effort between SGI and Intel (NYSE: INTC) designed to further accelerate the migration of technical applications to 64-bit Linux(R).
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