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Responding to growing demand for high-performance clusters that are cost-effective and easy to administer, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today unveiled enhancements to its award-winning mid-range server line. Delivering the unparalleled price/performance and ease of use of SGI(R) Altix(R) server for a broad range of cluster implementations, the new SGI(R) Altix(R) 1350 and SGI(R) Altix(R) Hybrid Cluster bring exceptional flexibility and scalability to any computing
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Silicon Graphics Inc (NYSE:SGI) announces the following Webcast:

What: Silicon Graphics Analyst Day Webcast

When: February 3, 2005 @ 11:30 AM Eastern

Where: http://www.vcall.com/EventPage.asp?ID=90480

How: Live over the Internet -- Simply log on to the web at the address above.

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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) recently completed the second quarter of its fiscal year 2005, which included dynamic growth in the SGI(R) Altix(R) server business, a successful launch of the Silicon Graphics Prism(TM) system into the visualization market, key sales wins across target markets, and growth in the Professional Services business with innovation solutions. In addition, SGI Altix servers, SGI(R) InfiniteStorage solutions and Silicon Graphics Prism visualization system captured a record eight HPCwire Innovation Awards at the Supercomputing 2004 Conference-five coveted Editor's Choice Awards and three Readers Choice Awards.
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Engineers at Silicon Graphics designing the company’s new Altix[R] 3700 BX2 supercomputer used software to find the reasons for shock and vibration problems in the design. The problems stemmed from planar packaging of the pc boards, which made it difficult to build in structural elements for handling the shock and vibration.
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What do you get when you package up to 256 Intel® Itanium®2 processors into a single computer node? The answer is the architecture for one of the fastest supercomputers in the world—and one heck of a thermal-management challenge.
That's what engineers at Silicon Graphics (SGI) discovered as they put together the design for the new SGI® Altix®3700 Bx2 supercomputer, released to the market at the end of 2004. Their solutions for beating the heating: planarized design for unobstructed airflow, and new designs in fans and heat sinks. Along the way to finding those solutions, engineers also developed technology for helping customers dissipate heat from their computer rooms.
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A state-of-the-art radar surveillance center operated by the Department of Homeland Security and powered by high-performance computing and storage technology from Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) is playing an integral role in protecting America.
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Waging war isn't about fun and games. Or is it? A visit to one of the world's biggest conventions for military training technology reveals that today's armed forces are taking cues from video games, theme parks, and Hollywood. Find out how the Pentagon is funding the future of new media at Orlando, Florida's I/ITSEC: the Defense Department's own Disney World.
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To address soaring demand from users for more powerful storage solutions, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today unveiled the SGI(R) InfiniteStorage TP9700 RAID storage array. This marks the industry's first Fibre Channel storage array equipped with a 4Gb/second (gigabit per second) Fibre Channel interface, doubling the performance of SGI's previous offerings. The increased performance of the TP9700 means that users need far less infrastructure -- adapters, cabling, switch ports, etc. -- to access and manage their storage. Bottom line, this results in lower cost of ownership and far simpler configurations to manage.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that SGI(R) InfiniteStorage solutions are taking front and center stage in a newly expanded SGI Channel Program. A special emphasis has been placed on recruiting new storage-centric value-added resellers (VARs) whose primary business is the supply and integration of data storage solutions and services.
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A small London software company has teamed with Hollywood special effects wizards to create a surgeon's diagnostic dream -- the virtual patient. The software designed by Atamai Inc. of London produces a lifelike 3-D image allowing surgeons to look inside a patient's brain or beating heart before and during an operation.
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HP is working to take Linux into several new areas of the server market, including 64-processor servers and better integration of its management software with open source sever packages, the company is expected to announce on Wednesday, shortly before a major Linux trade show.
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Silicon Graphics already sells Linux servers with a single copy of Linux running on as many as 2,048 processors in extreme cases.
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Discreet released new versions of inferno, flame and flint, updating its visual effects systems to versions 5, 8 and 8 respectively. Digital Media Net's Charlie White visited the company's Montreal headquarters, where Discreet officials and demo artists offered a close-up look at the new features in its flame 8 effects software.
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Another unique feature is something you can do mainly because of the system's awesome SGI-furnished bandwidth. Macs and PCs can't hold a candle to this -- SGIs are the only computers that can synch full resolution playback on the computer monitor while simultaneously showing you the same footage on a broadcast HD monitor.
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Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc (Nasdaq:CRAY) reported that recent High Performance Computing (HPC) Challenge benchmark tests show that the Cray XD1(TM) Opteron/Linux-based supercomputer outperforms systems of similar size and price. The Cray XD1 system, which is being demonstrated at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo in Boston this week, scored first in one of the eight HPC Challenge performance categories and second in two others, resulting in the highest rating overall in its class and some of the best scores among all the systems tested regardless of size and price.
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As the Linux community convenes in Boston this week at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo (February 14-17, 2005 at the Hynes Convention Center), Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that the latest version of its SGI ProPack(TM) software performance suite is now fully supported on SUSE(R) LINUX Enterprise Server 9. SGI ProPack(TM) 4, available as an option for SUSE LINUX users, extends the popular, industry- standard Linux(R) distribution to help meet customer demand for solutions to high-performance computing, storage, and visualization problems.
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Design News TechTalk is an online Q&A session – engineers asking other engineers how they solved particular challenges. Our first TechTalk event is with SGI’s expert engineering team who developed a “cool” supercomputer. Submit your questions for these engineers now -- or on the day of the TechTalk event, via a text-based feature, to be live when you come back here on February 17. See below for details.
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In an effort to put more complete and actionable battlefield knowledge in the hands of field commanders, the Battle Command Battle Lab at Fort Huachuca, AZ, is evaluating ways to fuse intelligence data from multiple sources into a cohesive combat picture with help from an array of technologies, including new server and visualization systems from Silicon Graphics.
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The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) has announced details of its next generation supercomputer, which according to executive director John O'Callaghan, has a chance to be one of the top 30 in the world.
Christened AC, or Altix Cluster, the system to be provided by SGI will consist of 1680 Intel Itanium2 processors, 3.6TB of memory, and 120TB of storage.
Brocade fibre channel switches will carry data and SuSE Linux will be the operating system used.
Installation will start next month and should be complete by June.
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Hayden Planetarium uses two different systems to represent space. The first is the Zeiss Mark 1X Universarium, which uses fiberoptics to cast perfect images of stars and planets.
The second system is the Digital Universe that is used to create 3D models. This computer system consists of a Silicon Graphics Onyx 2 Infinite Reality Monster made up of seven graphics pipes and 30 processors running at the same time. All this is fed to the digital-dome simulator, an integrated system created by SEOS Trimension that includes seven projectors and displays more than 7.2 million pixels.
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Fujitsu is expected to announce a major new server design in coming weeks, a refrigerator-size machine that uses up to 64 Itanium 2 processors and promises high-end features incorporating the company's mainframe expertise.
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SGI Japan Ltd. (President: Norio Izumi, HQ: Ebisu, Shibuya-ku) announced that it will deliver its latest high-end Linux(R) server, SGI(R) Altix(R) 3700 Bx2, to the Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP, Director: Kazuo Ueda, Location: Kashiwa-city, Chiba-prefecture) in Japan as the new supercomputing system for the institute.
The 1,280-processor system, running the latest Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors, will be the third largest high-performance supercomputer based on the Linux operating system (OS) and delivered by SGI following the announcements of the systems installed at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in United States and at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute.
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