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MONTREAL, Sept. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK - News) today announced major sales wins to companies doing high-definition (HD) and digital intermediate (DI) post-production and graphics work in the Asia Pacific region. Discreet is addressing the region's changing broadcast and film market needs by providing influential broadcasters and post-production facilities with HD and DI editing, visual effects and colour grading solutions. Discreet's recent sales in the Asia Pacific market mirror the global growth of the digital content creation industry and its need for high-end software-based systems.
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..... As promised, Intel demonstrated a dual-core processor. An Itanium 2 server from Silicon Graphics Inc. was shown running a weather modeling application on Montecito, Intel's previously disclosed dual-core Itanium 2 processor. Montecito is due in 2005. ......
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As broadcasters and post production houses transition from analog to digital IT facilities, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) is providing infrastructure and new storage technologies for the management of digital content within and between facilities. At the International Broadcasters Conference (IBC) 2004, September 10-14 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, SGI (Stand 7.531), will demonstrate how its digital infrastructure solutions are increasing productivity in facilities by enabling the sharing of content across multiple operations. The company will also launch Silicon Graphics Broadcast Europe, a dedicated media business unit in Europe.
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"At SIGGRAPH 2004, we're demonstrating new releases across our product lines," said Martin Vann, vice president of sales and marketing at Discreet.
......... Discreet is developing a next-generation shared storage solution with longtime partner Silicon Graphics and DataDirect Networks, as demand for high- performance collaborative environments continues to grow in the digital content creation industry.
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SEOUL, Korea and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Silicon Graphics Korea, a subsidiary of Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI - News) announced today that Korea Broadcasting System, the number one nationwide broadcasting system in Korea, has successfully established KBS Life Information Archiving System based on an SGI® SAN solution and SGI® InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS(TM).
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State-of-the-Art Facility To Be Equipped With Silicon Graphics Onyx and Octane2 Visual Workstations Running Discreet's inferno, flame and smoke Systems
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., and BEIRUT, Lebanon, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VTR Beirut, a joint venture between the London-based group VTR plc and Integrated Media Industries SAL, is on the verge of becoming the first and only high-end post facility in the Middle East.
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Following successful installations in six countries in the European broadcast market over the past two years, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) has launched Silicon Graphics Broadcast Europe under general manager Stephan Schindler. The dedicated media business unit will offer IT-based broadcast solutions and systems integration services to European broadcasters and operate across Europe with offices in London, Copenhagen, Munich, Paris and Amsterdam.
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Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK - News) is pleased to announce stone® shared storage system, its high-bandwidth, fully scalable, real-time storage area network (SAN) for high-quality non-compressed film and television post-production. stone shared storage system scales to provide multi-user collaboration with simultaneous access to multiple uncompressed 4K, 2K, HD and SD projects from a single storage location within the facility.
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At IBC 2004, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) introduces two SGI(R) InfiniteStorage products, highly optimized to meet the unique requirements of broadcasters and production facilities, both of which are rapidly migrating to IT data-centric environments. The new InfiniteStorage line for rich media includes the SGI(R) InfiniteStorage RM610 system for broadcast and SGI(R) InfiniteStorage RM660 system for video production and digital film facilities.
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Silicon Graphics said in its 2004 annual report that its independent auditors, Ernst & Young LLP, had identified a “material weakness” in the company’s internal controls. E&Y found that the company needs to reassess the resource requirements of its finance organization and take another look at the design and effectiveness of certain controls involved in closing financial statements.
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MONTEREY, Calif. — Thousands of miles from the rain and wind of Hurricane Ivan, a model of the storm swirls in the memory and processors of a supercomputer that can predict its likely course and strength.
......The Fleet Numerical computers, which were mostly built by SGI, also are based on so-called commodity chips.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI), provider of the industry's highest-performing compute, storage and visualization products, today announced that Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Warren Pratt and Chief Financial Officer Jeff Zellmer will present at the Merriman Curhan Ford & Co. Investor Summit on Tuesday, September 21, 2004 at 10:15 a.m. PDT / 1:15 p.m. EDT.
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When NASA weather forecasters tried to plot the path of Hurricane Ivan this week, they turned to a Silicon Graphics Inc. supercomputer.
"The actual prediction of events like hurricanes is one of the hardest problems in supercomputing," said Jill Matzke, SGI high performance computing marketing manager. "It's especially difficult due to the time constraints."
Supercomputers are coveted for their vast simulation capabilities, from predicting weather to simulating space missions. SGI's supercomputers helped weather forecasters analyze the path, direction, intensity and rainfall amounts of Hurricane Ivan.
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Silicon Graphics and Silicon Optix jointly demonstrated a new Immersive Theater configuration at the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) conference this week in San Jose, CA.
SGI® Reality Center® technology has powered over 701 Immersive Theaters worldwide in Science & Research, Manufacturing, Energy and Education. This technology is fast becoming the standard for science center exhibits all over the world.
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HP is doing a lot of explaining after it revealed this weekend that it will no longer put Itanium processors in its high-performance workstations.
... However, while HP continues to be a leader with its Itanium shipments -- up some 500 percent according to the latest Gartner numbers -- Jenkins said HP's market share is eroding to companies like NEC, Hitachi and SGI when it comes to Itanium projects.
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Today SBS Technologies(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:SBSE), a leading provider of embedded computing technology, announced the first set of InfiniBand(TM) IRIX(R) drivers with HIPPI-FP (High Performance Parallel Interface-Framing Protocol) emulation for InfiniBand host channel adapters (HCAs) supporting SGI 3.3V platforms.
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The Blue Gene/L machine overtaking the Earth Simulator has political as well as technical implications. When the Earth Simulator was introduced in 2002, it stunned the U.S. scientific and political community, which feared that the United States was losing its technological edge. The government set aside money to entice companies such as IBM, Silicon Graphics Inc. and Cray Inc. to develop supercomputers that could run faster than the Earth Simulator.
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