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[[ This is just freaky and strange. Moving faceless robot mannequins - they're just scary. Co-developed with SGI Japan, who either deserve some sort of award, or to be locked away somewhere before they do more harm :-) ]]
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DSI Direct Sales Inc. (DSDI) announced that Digital Color Imaging Inc. (DCI), its wholly owned subsidiary, has renewed its strategic partnership with Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) http://www.sgi.com, as it continued to expand the capabilities of the Vault(TM). The Vault is DCI's version of a Digital Asset Management Service provided to its clients. Companies have countless visual assets, either digital or printed such as photos, logos, catalogs, promotional materials and documents. These assets are expensive to create and as they accumulate may become difficult or impossible to catalog and retrieve rapidly.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) has integrated the prototype night vision goggle (NVG) simulation image generation hardware on the Lockheed Martin F-16 Mission Training Center (MTC) program for the U.S. Air Force. The NVG installation was completed as part of the $3.6 million production phase contract awarded to SGI last year by Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin's F-16 MTC pilot training systems provide realistic immersive training to the U.S. Air Force in high-resolution virtual training environments.
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Ask anybody to name the companies that made the greatest impact on storage, and it's quite possible that one of the most significant names will not come up. I am referring to Silicon Graphics (SGI), a company that (as you may already know) has an enviable track record and top-notch solutions spanning supercomputing, servers, workstations, OSes, and, yes, storage.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that worldwide sales of its servers and supercomputers grew 20 percent year-over-year in calendar 2004. According to IDC's recent Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, which pinpoints global server market sales growth at 6.2 percent for the same period, SGI server sales grew more than three times faster than the market.
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With data security more critically important than ever, the challenge is to protect data without creating access bottlenecks. Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) and ERUCES Inc. announced today at the AFCEA TechNet conference (Booth #209) a complement of 64-bit technologies that, when compared to traditional 32-bit options, is capable of reducing cryptographic-induced data latencies by nearly eight times. This level of access and protection is vital to enterprises where performance, latency, reliability and cost are essential, such as in the Intelligence, Department of Defense, and Homeland Security sectors.
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Discreet, the media and entertainment division of Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK) today announced that New York-based post-production house Nice Shoes has advanced its advertising workflow with new and upgraded Discreet processing, visual effects and editing solutions..........
Nice Shoes' Discreet smoke editing systems were upgraded to the latest version -- smoke 6.5, with a hardware upgrade from Silicon Graphics(R) Octane2(TM) to the Silicon Graphics(R) Tezro(R) visual workstation. The flame systems' hardware was upgraded to Silicon Graphics Tezro, enabling faster completion of projects.
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Modern warfare can bring information overload.
A spy calls in the latest movements of enemy forces. A military plane intercepts a cell phone message about the planned attack. Satellites feed military computer systems with images of the battlefield for advancing troops.
In many cases, such bits of information are analyzed using separate systems in the military and don't reach those on the battlefield in a timely, organized fashion. SGI, a Mountain View company also known as Silicon Graphics that specializes in supercomputers to visualize scientific data, is working with the U.S. military on a new method for giving battle commanders organized, real-time information about what's going on around them.
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The Gelato Federation, a research consortium dedicated to advancing the Linux OS and Intel Itanium 2 platform, announced on March 18 that Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI) has become an industry sponsor. As part of their sponsorship, SGI is supporting research at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and providing technical speakers for the May 2005 Gelato meeting in San Jose, California, May 22- 25, 2005.
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Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NYSE:SGI) have signed a cooperative agreement that combines their visualization and technology expertise to revolutionize how warfighters make decisions in the battlespace.
Photos accompanying this release are available at: http://media.primezone.com/noc/
The two companies will provide visualization solutions -- synthesizing data and presenting it to decision-makers through dramatic new graphical means -- for customers in the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Intelligence community, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that The Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research at the Ben Gurion University (BGU) of the Negev has acquired a high performance SGI(R) Altix(R) 3000 system. The Negev region encompasses about half the land mass of Israel and is home to remarkable landscapes including waterfalls, caves, canyons, archeological sites, cities, and craters The new SGI system will enable researchers at the Institute to identify new mechanisms of change in the biological diversity (vegetation species) of arid areas and
examine possible scenarios for the loss of animal and vegetation species as a result of environmental changes and their implications on the stability and function of global ecosystems.
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