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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) announced that the U.S. Army's Redstone Technical Test Center (RTTC), in order to perform highly advanced test and evaluation on Army missile systems has installed two SGI(R) Onyx(R) family supercomputing systems and 10 Silicon Graphics Fuel(R) visual workstations, an SGI(R) InfiniteStorage system plus related hardware and software.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) will demonstrate at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Dec. 6-9, its industry-leading compute, storage and visualization solutions that are helping government decision-makers leverage the explosion in the amount of data available for Defense and Intelligence applications. SGI(R) integrated solutions are transforming the Defense and Intelligence decision cycle by rapidly turning complex data into insight and effective action for military and civilian agencies.More

When you're in the music business, you need to keep up with the ever-changing tastes of music listeners. For Loudeye Corp., a Seattle-based provider of global digital media solutions to customers such as Amazon.com, Apple iTunes, AT&T Wireless and Microsoft Corp.'s MSN, that means being able to quickly move around 4.5 million digitized audio files and related data in accordance with the whims of music lovers and demands of music retailers........
The need for that decision-making ability is what led the company to a three-tier system, made possible with the addition of a 100TB StorageTek/LSI Logic SANtricity SAN, which now stores Loudeye's online catalog0 of audio files. Six Linux-based servers from Silicon Graphics are on the front end of the SAN via Brocade 3850 16-port Fibre Channel switches.
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Arkeia Corp. will showcase its flagship Linux-based data protection solution for the SGI® Altix® family of servers in the SGI exhibit at Oracle OpenWorld, Booth #414 here this week.
Arkeia and SGI are cooperating on marketing programs designed to support enterprise network backup applications for SGI systems based on industry-standard technologies and components, such as the Altix server using Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and a choice of standard Linux distributions.
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To power intensely real 3D image generation within a new tactical support and training system for its Gripen fighter, Saab Aerosystems has purchased four SGI(R) Onyx(R) family visualization systems from Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) as the core hardware technology. Saab's new flight simulator, called PETRA (Planning, Evaluation, Training, Rehearsal and Analysis), can be used for planning, evaluating and debriefing of missions -- either simulated or actual real-life missions -- as well as for basic training and rehearsal exercises, mission rehearsal in training and analysis of tactical scenarios.
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Silicon Graphics will demonstrate at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), Dec. 6-9, its industry-leading compute, storage and visualization solutions that are helping government decision-makers leverage the explosion in the amount of data available for Defense and Intelligence applications. SGI(R) integrated solutions are transforming the Defense and Intelligence decision cycle by rapidly turning complex data into insight and effective action for military and civilian agencies.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today launched the SGI(R) Open Broadcast Initiative designed to deliver a more open system choice approach to broadcasters around the globe easing their transition to a digital IT infrastructure. Among the challenges facing broadcasters making this transition is equipment interoperability. Leveraging the company's expertise with broadcast partners and designing all-digital workflow environments, the SGI Open Broadcast Initiative brings together the best broadcast products, regardless of vendor origination, with the implementation of scalable SGI(R) broadcast system architectures.
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......As Intel pushes into supercomputing there is the added problem that many developers and potential users do not have the resources to buy this sort of high end hardware, so Intel must provide them with systems to work on instead. The latest example is a 32-way Altix 3000 at Intel's UK head office in Swindon - together with SGI, Intel will make the system available to developers who need to test their software on a high end parallel processor, either on-site or remotely.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that its SGI(R) Altix(R) 350 server has demonstrated record breaking price/performance in recent benchmark tests, revealing the Altix 350 system's ability to outperform competing systems from a host of vendors. The tests were independently conducted by Multipath Corporation, developers of FMS(TM), a library that improves performance and problem solving capabilities of scientific and engineering applications. The SGI Altix system's FMS performance eclipsed that of all other similarly configured systems running the same test, and achieved new heights in price/performance, an increasingly important advantage to customers striving to make the most of their technology budgets.
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NEW DELHI: In its bid to capitalize on the huge availability of high quality talent in the software arena - US based, high performance computing company Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI) is looking forward to having its R&D activity being done from India.
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Scientists in search of new and inexhaustible sources of energy require some of the most advanced supercomputing resources available. To address those needs, researchers at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) have acquired two powerful new supercomputers from Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI).
LLE researchers purchased two SGI(R) Altix(R) 3000 supercomputers -- one powered by 256 Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors and the other driven by 64 Itanium 2 processors -- to accelerate efforts to identify sustainable and even infinite energy sources. LLE's broad range experiments include trying to pinpoint ways to use Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) to, among other things, harness the ocean's ample storehouse of untapped energy.
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On January 13, Sony Pictures will present the first-ever showing of a major studio motion picture using Sony's revolutionary new "4K" digital projection system at a screening of Columbia Pictures' blockbuster Spider-Man(R) 2. The uncompressed "4K" digital cinema content for the projection system will be powered by advanced visualization and shared storage systems from Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI).
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Silicon Graphics plans to overhaul its high-performance Altix computers a year from now to accommodate dual-core Itanium processors from Intel. SGI, which specializes in machines for high-performance technical computing jobs such as aerodynamics simulations, plans to release its next-generation Altix model at the same time Intel releases its new "Montecito" version of Itanium, said Dave Parry, senior vice president of SGI's server and platform group. That processor is scheduled to debut in the second half of 2005.
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Hewlett-Packard is easing out of its partnership with Intel in the design of the Itanium processor and details of the breakup are scheduled to be spelled out in greater detail soon.
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