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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced its award-winning SGI(R) Altix(R) 3000 system has beaten comparable servers from IBM, Cray and Sun on performance tests that comprise the new HPC Challenge Benchmark. The results reveal that SGI Altix delivers as much as eight times the performance of IBM servers and four times the performance of Cray supercomputers in key categories.
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Malaysia seriously needs to boost the contribution made by local multimedia content development industries to its gross domestic product (GDP), said the Multimedia Development Corporation on Tuesday...............
The CADC has a Virtual Reality Centre with a 12ft high curved, cylindrical screen and three DLP (digital light processor) projectors for viewing virtual reality presentations in 3D; Creative Multimedia Lab with a server farm, storage area network, computer hardware and audio-visual equipment; and a High Performance Computing facility featuring an SGI Onyx 3800 computer for handling complex 3D computer animations.
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Maximum Throughput Inc. (www.max-t.com), a provider of high performance networked storage and media management solutions, announced today the immediate availability of its Xstoner software for Linux -based systems from discreet . Xstoner is a client- server software application and networking utility that connects PCs and Macs with IRIX based, and now Linux based, discreet advanced systems offerings.
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SGI (NYSE: SGI - News) today announced preliminary financial results for the third fiscal quarter ended March 25, 2005. The Company is projecting quarterly revenue of approximately $160 million and an estimated operating loss of approximately $45 million. The projected operating loss includes restructuring charges of approximately $15 million incurred primarily in connection with the restructuring actions that were initiated in February 2005. Without these charges, the non-GAAP operating loss is expected to be approximately $30 million. In its January 25, 2005 conference call, the Company had previously forecast revenue for the third quarter in the range of $180 million to $200 million.
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Two vulnerabilities have been reported in SGI IRIX, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges and disclose some sensitive information.
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No technology accepted by the scientific community today can accurately forecast underwater earthquakes and the ensuing disasters they can cause. However, supercomputing and storage systems are being put to use to assist in the repair of damage done by the recent catastrophic tsunami in Asia, by processing air- and sea-condition models..........
FNMOC began using SGI servers, supercomputers and storage technology in 2001. Today, the network includes two Origin 3800 machines, two Origin 3900s and two 12-processor Origin systems, which are clustered because the center's work is continuous and the output of one job often contributes to the input of the next, Clancy said. The systems are connected through SGI's shared-file system, called InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS, which permits data to be passed among operating systems without any replicating.
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Scientists and novices alike have gazed at the night sky for centuries and
pondered, "How was the Universe formed?" Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today
announced that through the use of its high-performance supercomputing
technology, the answers to these and many other questions about the origins of
the Universe may be uncovered by astrophysics scientists at the Shanghai
Astronomical Observatory and the Nanjing Purple Mountain Astronomical
Observatory.
With the new SGI(R) Altix(R) systems installed in November at each observatory -- Shanghai and Nanjing -- scientists are exploring the theory of the structure of evolution of the Universe by running high-resolution numerical simulations of galaxy formation.
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To meet explosive data storage growth and performance demands caused by the increase in 2K film data and the rollout of 4K digital cinema masters -- and to keep that data always available in real-time for producers and artists -- Pacific Title & Art Studio turned to Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) to further expand its existing heterogeneous SGI(R) InfiniteStorage storage area network (SAN) infrastructure.
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.......Efilm performs digital processing for films such as The Bourne Supremacy, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and Finding Neverland, all of which are stored on a 200TB+ storage-area network (SAN) from Silicon Graphics Inc.
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To enable motion picture and television episodic customers to explore more creative possibilities and make artistic decisions immediately, Laser Pacific Media Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Eastman Kodak Company, invested in expertise and a technology infrastructure from Silicon Graphics to create the most flexible, high-performance SAN in Hollywood. SGI Professional Services is now installing Autodesk Stone Shared storage, which incorporates SGI InfiniteStorage RM660 storage and SGI CXFS shared filesystem. This integration will result in easier handling of multiple 2K resolution streams for digital intermediates (DI) to meet the greater requirements of Laser Pacific's customers.
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THERE HAS BEEN LITTLE good news for Intel on the Itanium front of late, just retreat after retreat, and a low end market that pretty much vanished. Most vendors agree that it is a niche market, most except for SGI that is. SGI is about to bring the chip back to the masses, or at least back into an abandoned market.
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To help broadcasters and post production houses as they transition from analog to digital IT-based facilities, and from SD to HD, 2K and 4K resolution material, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) is introducing an open IT platform designed to bring greater efficiencies to their new digital workflows. Unveiled at NAB Booth SL1943, the Silicon Graphics Prism(TM) platform for Media employs the same architecture as one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, the SGI(R) Altix(R) system at NASA Ames.
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.......The Defense Department thinks it can improve war-fighting by freeing its commanders from the need to sort information by keyboard and mouse, and Raytheon is working on the technology required to create a "gestural interface" that will allow it to happen. Meanwhile, computer maker Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) is developing computers capable of understanding hand gestures in lieu of the more traditional data-input devices.
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EFILM LLC, a digital film lab with movies like We Were Soldiers, Spy Kids 2, and Frida has picked Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) (NYSE: SGI - message board) for what SGI calls "digital intermediaries," meaning processes that include color correction and the creation of high-res digital masters. EFILM has networked three SGI Onyx 3000 visualization systems with four SGI Origin 300 servers and 13 Fibre Channel switches from Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: BRCD - message board) to create its network.
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The Khronos Group's implementation of the OpenML® API is to be made available as open source on Sourceforge, the company announced today. The OpenML specification provides software and hardware developers with a professional-grade, cross-platform, standardized media framework for the capturing, processing, synchronizing and playing of digital media content -- including video, audio and 3D graphics -- for authoring and content creation systems.
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Leveraging its expertise with broadcast and production partners and in designing all-digital workflow environments, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) posted several systems integration wins in the past few quarters.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced results for its third fiscal quarter which ended March 25, 2005. Revenue for the third quarter was $159 million, in line with the preliminary results announced April 7, 2005. Gross margin was 34.5%
compared with 37.5% in the second quarter. SGI's third-quarter operating loss was $45 million, compared with an operating loss of $9 million in the second quarter. The third-quarter net loss was $45 million or $0.17 per share, compared with a net loss of $11 million or $0.04 per share in the second quarter.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that Pirelli Labs, the excellence research and development center of Italy's Pirelli & C. S.p.A. (PC:MI), will use SGI(R) server and storage technologies as tools for its advanced activities in the
field of photonics, sending communications on particles of light.
One of the world's leading makers of tires and advanced solutions for telecommunications, Pirelli will drive its leading-edge design and analysis efforts with a milestone system: the 1,500th SGI(R) Altix(R) server sold worldwide.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) recently completed the third quarter of its fiscal year 2005, which included key global sales wins across target markets, expanded alliances with important partners, and several strategic product introductions.
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To build a more efficient workflow and expand creative capabilities for their artists,
Detroit-area powerhouse GTN, Inc., a global production, post-production and new media company, recently underwent a complete technology refresh for its seven Edit and five VFX Suites, converting all to visualization systems from Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI). An employee-owned company focused on providing innovative and creative solutions for top advertising agencies and Fortune 500 companies worldwide, GTN purchased 11 Silicon Graphics(R) Tezro(R) visualization systems and one SGI(R) Onyx(R) visualization computer along with a full complement of Autodesk(R) Discreet(R) high-end, industry-leading software.
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As Earth Day 2005 approaches, more scientists than ever are working to understand our environment and mankind's impact on it. And today, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) announced that scientists at three respected institutions have
joined the ranks of researchers worldwide who rely on SGI(R) computing, visualization and storage solutions to study and preserve the planet's resources and ecosystems.
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SGI (NYSE: SGI) today announced that the U.S. General Services Administration, Federal Technology Service, on behalf of the Department of Defense (DoD) High
Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), has purchased an SGI(R) Altix(R) supercomputer to help the United States military maintain its technological supremacy over its adversaries in weapon systems design.
The Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, has enhanced their computing power with the recent installation of a 2,048-processor SGI Altix supercomputer that will: aid weapon systems design of innovative materials; advance design concepts; improve and speed modification programs; increase high fidelity simulations; and enable more efficient tests and evaluations.
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Signate today announced the Signate Telephony Server 5000(TM), the world's first high performance, scaleable and standards-based VoIP telephony switching platform for telephony service providers and enterprise customers........
Up to eight uniquely scalable modules can share a 6.4GB/second interconnect based on SGI technology that enables a coordinated system supporting over 40,000 simultaneous call streams. That eight module configuration also means significantly lower infrastructure and administration costs compared to the array of personal computers that would be necessary to achieve comparable performance.
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Shortly after rival Hewlett-Packard withdrew from the market, Silicon Graphics has begun selling a new workstation with Intel's Itanium processor.
SGI's new system, which costs between $8,500 and $39,000, accommodates one or two Itanium 2 processors and as much as 24GB of memory, the company is expected to announce Tuesday. It's based on the same technology, including the Linux operating system and ATI graphics hardware, as the company's higher-end Prism products introduced last October.
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Answering mounting demand for more visualization capability in the hands of Linux(R) system users struggling with big data problems, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today extended its acclaimed family of Silicon Graphics Prism(TM)
visualization systems with a new deskside model. Featuring a starting price under $8,500, the Silicon Graphics Prism deskside system packs up to 24GB of memory and two full bandwidth graphics pipelines.
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Since its release, the Silicon Graphics Prism(TM) visualization system has been eagerly adopted by leaders in technical and scientific visualization, and is rapidly
becoming the gold standard of 64-bit Linux(R) visualization environments. Widespread acceptance by the manufacturing, sciences, energy, and government and defense industries has set the stage for existing SGI application developer-partners and a broad range of applications brand new to SGI to optimize their industry-leading software for the open-systems, large memory, scalable Silicon Graphics Prism visualization system.
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Abu Dhabi-based Zakum Development Company (ZADCO), one of the leading operating companies in the UAE’s oil industry, has been able to cut the time taken to carry out reservoir simulation calculations on its supercomputers from two weeks to just 50 hours, resulting in a massive productivity gain for its Reservoir Modelling Teams.
This follows the installation by SGI and Emirates Computers of a cluster of 64-bit SGI Altix 350 Linux-based supercomputers incorporating breakthrough Itanium II processor technology at the oil company's Abu Dhabi offices.
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After searching for visionary technologists who "scan the horizon for promising new
technologies and find singularly effective ways to implement them," InfoWorld Media Group has named Dr. Eng Lim Goh, chief technology officer of Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI), as one of its 2005 CTO 25 Awards recipients.
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