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.....Original film negative is scanned or transferred to data as 2K-resolution 10bit-log RGB information. This maintains an image data quality higher than an equivalent interpositive struck from the camera original negative, maintaining the full nuance of the original including the negative’s full dynamic or density range as well as resolution. This 2K data is transferred as part of the scanning process to the heart of our facility, which is built around a Silicon Graphics Infinite Storage SAN 2000 system, with data served by a SGI Origin 350 Server . A system that can hold entire movies in digital form and process numerous variants and effects as well as playing back its entire 2K data contents in real-time, on demand.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) announced that the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI)will introduce an SGI(R) Altix(R) supercomputer as its new core computation system to assist in developing leading energy systems. As a result of a competitive bidding process, Fujitsu Limited in cooperation with SGI Japan will deliver to JAERI the new SGI(R) Altix(R) 3700 Bx2 model which is based on 2,048 Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors, the Linux(R) operating environment and over 13 terabytes of memory -- the world's largest memory capacity. The system is scheduled to fully operate at the end of March 2005.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE:SGI) today announced it has earned a record eight top spots in the 2004 HPCwire Innovation Awards. The readers and editors of HPCwire, the journal of record for the high-performance computing industry, singled out SGI as the industry's most innovative HPC technology vendor, with awards for SGI® Altix® servers and supercomputers, SGI® InfiniteStorage solutions, and Silicon Graphics Prism™ visualization systems. In addition, HPCwire editors bestowed special honors on SGI's historic implementation with NASA and Intel of Columbia, the most powerful supercomputer in operation today.
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Engenio Information Technologies, Inc., a global provider of innovative and highly scalable modular storage systems for the open enterprise, today announced that the company's 4-Gigabit (4Gbps) Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) technology will be demonstrated at SuperComputing 2004, the premier conference on high-performance computing, networking and storage.........
The demonstration features Silicon Graphics servers, LSI Logic host bus adapters and Brocade switches that show 4Gbps Fibre Channel technology is ready to move from test labs to the data center.
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In one of the most important moves to bring together national supercomputing infrastructures to advance science and technology in Europe, several leading European HPC centres devised an innovative strategy to build a terascale supercomputing facility with continental scope, called Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA).
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Driving home the well-proven maxim of SGI CEO Bob Bishop, "to out-compete, you must out-compute," Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) is demonstrating how its compute, storage and visualization solutions are shattering the conventions of high-performance computing (HPC) this week at Supercomputing Conference 2004. An array of new products, news of top industry honors and HPC achievements, and a host of presentations and conference sessions will bring SGI's technology strategy
into sharp focus in this annual gathering of the world's most demanding computer users.
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As more companies explore the possibility of adding supercomputers to their IT stables, prices of the machines continue to fall even as their computing power and flexibility for business use is growing........
Procter & Gamble Co., for example, is using supercomputers from Silicon Graphics Inc. for computer-aided engineering. In the past, traditional supercomputer use included science research into areas such as weather, astronomy and biotechnology, as well as exploration for oil and gas.
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The United States took the lead from Japan in the supercomputer Olympics on Monday, with an IBM system in Livermore and an SGI system in Mountain View placing first and second among the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world. But while the new ranking restores the nation's bragging rights, it is no guarantee that the United States will remain a leader in developing the monster machines used for everything from forecasting climate to modeling nuclear explosions, according to a report released Monday by the National Research Council.
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Using a 16-processor SGI(R) Altix(R) 350 system from Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) as a cost-effective compute engine, Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) this week is demonstrating a new molecular dynamics simulation solution at the Supercomputing Conference 2004. RIKEN will demonstrate its MDGRAPE-3 system in SGI's SC2004 Booth No. 1311 and in RIKEN's SC2004 Booth No.2748D at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
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When the Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers is published Monday, the 10,240 processor "Columbia" supercomputer that Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) recently built for NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration's) Ames Research Center is expected to be the number-two system on the list.
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Federal agencies now possess the two most powerful computers on the Top 500 supercomputers list. The latest listing brings to an end the three-year run stranglehold on the top spot by the Japanese government. Even though this may be good news to those worried about the country's computer supremacy, a report to be issued by the National Research Council ominously warns of the United States falling behind in its computer prowess despite these gains.
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Working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Image Analysis facility at Kennedy Space Center is studying the Sarasota kidnapping video of Carlie Brucia to provide any new information possible to law enforcement officers. Kennedy Space Center is joining NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama in reviewing the tape.
The lab is using an advanced SGI® TP9500 data management system to review the tape. This is the new $3.2 million system KSC installed in preparation for Return to Flight of the Space Shuttle fleet.
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Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK - News) today announced that Singapore-based post-production house Infinite Frameworks has purchased a Discreet smoke® editing/finishing system and is upgrading to the latest version of Discreet's high-end visual effects system, inferno® 6. This purchase makes Infinite Frameworks the first facility in Singapore with a full range of high-definition (HD) post-production capabilities. It is also a boost to Singapore's Media 21 plan, a vision by the Media Development Authority (MDA) for Singapore to become a global media hub.
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Congress passed a bill Wednesday for $165 million in new supercomputing funding in the United States, a move that came a week after a report criticized current supercomputing as insufficient for the country's security needs.
The bill, called the Department of Energy High-End Computing Revitalization Act of 2004, now needs the signature of President Bush to become law. The president is expected to sign the bill, a representative of the House Science Committee said.
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With a wink of the eye or an arch of the eyebrow, what is that intriguing stranger telling you? Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that through the use of its advanced visualization technology, the answers to these and other questions of non-verbal communications may be uncovered with unusual precision by Ontario, Canada-based researchers at the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, in collaboration with the University of Toronto and Queens University. Using a Silicon Graphics(R) Onyx4(TM) UltimateVision(TM) system, these scientists are in the process of creating the first research-quality simulated human face, whose features can be controlled by a mouse right down to a Mona Lisa smile. The project will help isolate facial patterns humans routinely use to communicate, and do so with more scientific rigor than any real human being could muster.
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US-BASED Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI), which is best known for its visualisation software, plans to push data storage solutions aggressively this year and next to digital media companies, government undertakings, and R&D institutions. The aim is to get storage solutions to contribute 33 per cent to gross global revenues in two years - from about 18 per cent currently.
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WHAT do Harry Potter, Band Of Brothers, Tomb Raider, Die Another Day, Shrek, Antz, Pearl Harbor, and The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring have in common? They were all made using high-end equipment and software from Silicon Graphics Inc.
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In California there's a computer manufacturer that makes powerful machines beloved by a tiny niche of creative users, featuring a media-oriented Unix operating system and stunning industrial design. But it's not Apple Computer.
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