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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SGI (NYSE: SGI) announced today that for the first fiscal quarter, ending on September 24, 2004, revenue is projected to be approximately $175 million and the operating loss is expected to be approximately $25 million. The Company previously forecast revenue of $190 to $210 million and an operating loss of approximately $10 to $20 million for the first quarter.
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Silicon Graphics Systems (India) Pvt Ltd and Intel Technology India Pvt Ltd today announced the deployment of a 10 Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processor-based SGI(R) Altix(R) 350 server at BG Exploration & Production India Limited (BGEPIL), which is a business of BG India. BG India has been active in India's oil and gas sector for more than 10 years and is part of the BG Group -- a leading international energy company. The new system will be used to simulate gas deposits miles below the earth's surface, thereby providing BGEPIL timely access to data needed for its oil exploration and production planning.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that British Gas Exploration and Production India Ltd., (BGEPIL) and Instituto Venezolano del Petroleo SA (INTEVEP) have invested in SGI(R) Altix(R) servers and supercomputers to maximize production from some of the world's largest deposits of oil and gas. The companies join other energy industry leaders including BP, Marathon Oil Company, Saudi Aramco, and Total in using scalable SGI Altix systems for their E&P business. Based on industry-standard 64-bit Linux(R) and Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors, Altix systems are crucial in helping many of these companies gain a sharper understanding of oilfields located miles below the earth's surface.
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In a global effort to extract the greatest value from subsurface oil and gas reservoirs, the Exploration and Production Branch at French energy giant Total recently expanded its already extensive capabilities provided by servers and storage solutions from Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI). The move is expected to allow Total to maximize its return on drilling investments made throughout the world by strategically approaching each discovery for optimal output.
With the June deployment of six additional SGI(R) Altix(R) servers, 48 more terabytes of SGI(R) InfiniteStorage at Total's technical center in Pau, France, researchers can simultaneously conduct detailed seismic analysis on more drilling opportunities.
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SGI(R) workstations running ART VPS's accelerated ray-tracing chip sets were demonstrated publicly for the first time today at the SGI Technology Forum in Paris. The AR350 chips, configured in sets of eight and 16, are expected to be available in SGI workstations within the next two months.
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........The Kennedy Center bought a $4 million SGI video streaming system with 12 processors, 12G of RAM and 36T of storage to run multiple videos simultaneously, in synchronization. The system can output video in multiple formats, such as MPEG.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI), a global leader in high-performance computing, storage and advanced visualization, and Landmark Graphics, a wholly owned business unit of Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), have demonstrated breakthrough technology with the use of advanced interactive visualization on a 400GB seismic dataset in association with Marathon Oil Company. This new practical science solution enables exploration of the Earth's subsurface using seismic information that contains four times more information than current technologies.
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Leveraging its position as the world's leading innovator in high-performance visual computing, SGI (NYSE: SGI) today announced the Silicon Graphics Prism(TM), the world's most powerful and flexible Linux(R) OS-based visual computer product line. For the first time, SGI has taken its most advanced computer graphics capability, previously affordable to only a select few, and made it available on a truly open and accessible platform. By combining standards-based Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors, the Linux operating environment, and its world renowned advanced graphics technology, SGI has created a system that is uniquely suited to addressing the world's most demanding visual computing problems -- all at price points that make it accessible to a wider group of users.
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Transitive Corporation, the leading provider of software that enables transportability of applications across multiple processor and operating system pairs, today announced that Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NYSE:SGI) will begin shipping Transitive's QuickTransit(TM) software on its new Silicon Graphics Prism(TM) advanced visualization system in early 2005.
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Alias announced today that it will release Alias(R) StudioTools(TM) 12, Alias ImageStudio(TM) 2, and Alias PortfolioWall(R) 2, the industrial design industry's most advanced suite of software products, in November.........
[Studio Tools 12] runs on Windows(R) XP, Windows 2000 and SGI(R) IRIX(R) operating systems.
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Silicon Graphics Inc. (NYSE: SGI) announces the following Webcast:
What: Silicon Graphics First Quarter FY2005 Results
When: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 @ 5:00 pm Eastern
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Martin Curley, director of IT innovation at Intel, made the trek to Register Towers to tell us all about the chip giant's plans for a network of Innovation Centres.......
The new centre in Swindon will offer support,including an SGI machine, for independent software developers to test applications.
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Until now, neurosurgery has been the traditional application for image-guided surgery. But Robarts Research Institute and medical visualization software developer Atamai Inc., both of London, Ont., along with Mountain View, Calif.-based Silicon Graphics Inc., are working on a two-year project at the institute's Virtual Augmentation and Simulation for Surgery & Therapy (VASST) lab to make image-guided surgery a reality for other types of medical procedures, such as prostate cancer therapy, breast cancer biopsy and cardiac intervention and therapy as well.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that its SGI(R) Altix(R) server has once again proven dominant against key competitors including Hewlett Packard. In recent database benchmark tests, a mid-range Altix system set a new performance record for stand-alone, eight-processor servers. The results show that a mid-range Altix system offers leading performance for users who depend on complex databases for their technical, scientific and creative applications.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced results for its first fiscal quarter which ended September 24, 2004. Revenue for the first quarter was $175 million, in line with the preliminary results announced October 5, 2004. Gross margin from continuing operations was 35.8% compared with 40.1% in the same quarter one year ago. SGI's first-quarter operating loss from continuing operations was $27 million, compared with an operating loss of $44 million for the first quarter fiscal 2004. The first-quarter net loss was $28 million or $0.11 per share, compared with a net loss of $48 million or $0.23 per share one year ago.
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In a joint effort with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to make more sophisticated open-source performance tools available to government laboratories, universities and other researchers, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced it is developing an open-source version of the SGI(R) SpeedShop(TM) performance analysis tool. Aimed at accelerating research efforts on Linux(R) OS-based systems, the NNSA-funded project will provide the evolving open-source community with broad access to SpeedShop that for years has been a staple on IRIX(R), the world's most
technically advanced UNIX(R) high-performance computing environment.
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The growing use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and other highly compute-intensive engineering-software applications is driving innovation in the hardware field. Among developments: Both SGI and Cray Inc. are pushing new computer systems that provide the speed and power to help engineers run sophisticated analysis programs faster.
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The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) today recognized Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) for its outstanding export market expansion by awarding the company the DOC Export Achievement Certificate. The award was presented in a ceremony held in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, the site of SGI's manufacturing facility. The company will be given the award as an example of how U.S. firms can "in- source" their high-value manufacturing and successfully compete throughout the world while manufacturing their products solely in the United States. Fewer than 100 of these certificates are given annually.
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.... IBM now plans to bridge that divide using a feature of its new Power5 processors. With a technology called Virtual Vector Architecture, or ViVA, the 16 processor cores of a scalar server such as IBM's Power5-based p5-570 can be yoked together to act like a single vector processor.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced the Open Storage initiative. This new program enables hardware storage vendors qualified by SGI to run SGI(R) InfiniteStorage software, a suite of storage solutions designed specifically for the most demanding data environments. Open storage provides IS managers flexibility and investment protection for managing data over multi-vendor environments.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI), a world leader in high-performance computing, storage and visualization, today announced the latest enhancements to SGI(R) InfiniteStorage Data Migration Facility (DMF). These enhancements further the company's leadership in delivering on the promise of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM).
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Ascent Media has announced a £1.5 million investment in digital intermediary technology in London this year......
.......The investment to date includes two Quantel IQs, a da Vinci 2K colour corrector, an SGI Storage Area Network, Truelight Colour Management system, MTI for dust dusting and an HD infrastructure including VTRs.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) with NASA today confirmed that NASA's new Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processor-based Columbia supercomputer is the most powerful computer in the world. Only days after NASA completed installation of Columbia -- and using just 16 of Columbia's 20 installed systems -- the new supercomputer achieved sustained performance of 42.7 trillion calculations per second (teraflops), eclipsing the performance of every supercomputer operating today.
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Concluding a 15- week effort with NASA and Intel to build and successfully install the world's most powerful supercomputer, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that the new 10,240-processor Columbia supercomputer is fully deployed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility located at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. Unlike traditional supercomputer deployments that have taken years to become fully viable, Columbia was available to scientists throughout its installation, giving NASA and the U.S. Government an immediate and revolutionary boost in capabilities as they strive to solve some of
history's most demanding scientific problems.
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[ This article has more technical details about the system. ]
The system, a $50m Linux-based NASA machine called Columbia, which SGI sold in July, can perform 42.7 trillion calculations per second, or 42.7 teraflops, SGI announced on Tuesday. However, that speed isn't the final word: the system used only four-fifths of the 10,240 Intel Itanium 2 processors in the full machine being uncloaked at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.
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[ Details from SGI on how the project was concieved and implemented. ]
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Maintaining its leadership in HPC performance among open systems solutions, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today unveiled a new version of its SGI(R) Altix(R) 3700 system that delivers twice the bandwidth and processor density of its flagship high-end model. The new Altix(R) 3700 Bx2 model makes it easier for users to cost-effectively deploy the world's most powerful system based on the industry-standard Linux(R) OS and Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors -- delivering more compute power while requiring less space.
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