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A supercomputer in Rochester -- Blue Gene/L -- recently claimed the title of fastest computer in the world. Minnesota's history of building the fastest and most powerful computers in the world dates back to the early 1960s. The supercomputer industry fell on hard times in the 1990s, but now may be poised for a renaissance.
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As the medical community marks the start of National Cancer Awareness Month, scientists around the world are pursuing new approaches to diagnosing and treating cancer with the help of breakthrough technologies from Silicon Graphics . Leading research institutions -- including Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the National Cancer Institute, and Robarts Research Institute -- have turned to SGI computing, visualization and storage solutions to treat and potentially prevent some of the most lethal illnesses known to man.
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In conjunction with National Cancer Awareness Month, China Human Proteome Organization, a member of Human Proteome Organization (HUPO) and Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) announce the completed installation of SGI supercomputing and storage solutions for research designed to ultimately link liver-specific proteins to diseases such as hepatitis and liver cancer that could save hundreds of thousands of people dying from liver cancer.
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With a new award-winning supercomputer from Silicon Graphics, the Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research at the University of Mississippi now offers the state's eight universities the most powerful shared memory system available.
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Silicon Graphics(NYSE: SGI) today at the 85th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting announced that SGI(R) Altix(R) systems and SGI(R) InfiniteStorage solutions are assisting two cutting-edge assistant professors in two very diverse fields of research in the Physics and Atmospheric Science Department at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Both researchers are immersed in solving intense computational problems requiring the speed and expandability of SGI(R) high performance compute (HPC) power and storage, and both agree SGI Altix computers turned out to be the best choice for the large data sets they run.
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From developing new rocket fuels to understanding how lightning strikes affect a passenger jet, researchers in Alabama are experiencing revolutionary breakthroughs in productivity with a group of mid-range servers and high-performance storage solutions from Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI). With the new SGI(R) technology, the Alabama Supercomputer Authority (ASA) provides more than 100 times the computational capacity of its previous supercomputer for a broad range of demanding scientific applications.
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As scientists meet to consider the 2005 AMS theme of "Building the Earth Information System" and the role that science can play in decision-making for society, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced its continued commitment to providing an unprecedented blend of high-performance computing, visualization and storage solutions that consistently drive global innovations in meteorology and climatology, including research and forecasting.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today at the 85th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting announced that the First Institute of Oceanography (FIO), one of the research institutes under the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) in Qingdao, China, has installed a new SGI(R) Altix(R) supercomputing system from SGI for its ocean environment research project. The SGI(R) Altix(R) 3700 system powered by 32 Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors and with 32GB global shared memory was installed and has been in full operation since September. The new supercomputing resource is used to simulate the ocean environment, ocean airflow and computation of short-term numeric global ocean data changes.
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Intelligent Light today announced the introduction of FIELDVIEW eXtreme, a powerful, scalable, immersive visualization software tool for Computational Fluid Dynamics post-processing. FIELDVIEW eXtreme has been designed to be used by CFD analysts in SGI(R) Reality Center(R) facilities and effectively implements multi-pipe rendering capabilities that SGI has pioneered. Intelligent Light and Silicon Graphics (NYSE:SGI) have been associated for years and share many customers around the world. The two companies have been working together for months to bring a solution to market that exploits SGI(R) graphics systems and Reality Center facilities.
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For an experience that's truly out of this world, visitors to the 2008 Summer Games will need to go no further than the new Beijing Planetarium. The world's first digital all-dome laser-projected real-time planetarium is powered by a Zeiss All Dome Laser Image Projection system driven by SGI(R) Onyx(R) visualization computers. In the newly opened SGI(R) Digital Space Theatre, visitors will -- for the first time -- see spectacular high-contrast color images including more than 37,000 stars, 30,000 galaxies, constellations, nebulae, planets, spacecraft, and deep space objects.
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The largest touring exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls and related artifacts ever seen in the United States arrives today at the Gulf Coast Exploreum science center in Mobile, Ala. Part of the Exploreum's Gala Opening tonight is the unveiling of the Exploreum's brand new Virtual Journeys Immersive Theater, powered by a visualization system from Silicon Graphics.
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Boris FX today announced that Volume I of Continuum Complete is now available. This comprehensive suite of native filters extends the capabilities of Discreet Inferno®, Flame®, Flint®, Fire®, and Smoke® systems. This IRIX-based addition to the Continuum product line is based on Discreet’s Sparks architecture. Sparks is an advanced Application Programming Interface (API) for developing custom plug-ins.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI - News) today announced results for its second fiscal quarter, which ended December 24, 2004. Revenue for the quarter was $223 million, compared with $175 million for the first quarter ended September 24, 2004. Gross margin was 37.5% in the second quarter, up from 35.9% in the first quarter. SGI's second-quarter operating loss from continuing operations was $9 million, compared with an operating loss of $26 million in the first quarter. The second-quarter net loss from continuing operations was $11 million or $0.04 per share, compared with a net loss of $28 million or $0.11 per share last quarter.
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Silicon Graphics (SGI) on Monday plans to unveil a new product line designed to make it easier for users with medium-sized computing needs to set up clusters of the Mountain View, California, company's Altix 350 servers. Called the Altix 1350 clusters, the systems will be based on SGI's Altix 350 servers. They will be pre-configured with the management, networking and storage technology required to cluster them. Customers will be able to cluster as many as 32 Itanium 2 processors into a single Altix 350 compute node, SGI said in a statement.
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In recent years, the model size of automobile design and analysis has become larger and more complex than ever before -- from thousands of model elements in a single automobile design to millions of detailed elements. These influences have driven the need for high performance computing power with faster I/O, faster bandwidth and higher scalability in the automobile industry. To address these industry challenges, Hyundai Motor Company, the number one motor company in Korea, has purchased computing and storage solutions from Silicon Graphics Korea.
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The University of Manchester invites the scientific research community to participate in a technical symposium on reconfigurable computing with FPGAs, to be held 21-22 February in the Michael Smith Building at the University of Manchester. As an exciting new area of research, this event gives attendees the opportunity to interact with other scientists interested in exploring the possibilities of using reconfigurable computing to accelerate their software applications through the exchange of ideas and experiences.
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The idea of having a preconfigured server shipped to you is old hat: Every server vendor worth its salt lets you configure a machine online before you buy it, and you get a finished system shipped right to your data center door. Customers in the high performance computing (HPC) market, where parallel supercomputers have been hand-made for decades, have had about enough of this. They want clusters that behave like, are preconfigured like, and sold like monolithic systems. These are so-called "bright clusters," and supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics is partnering to target this fast-growing market with its Linux-based Altix machines.
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