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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that its SGI(R) Altix(R) 350 midrange server and SGI(R) InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS(TM) will serve as the foundation of new products from IPEX Information Technology Group, one of Australia's leading Information Technology (IT) solution providers. As part of a three-year OEM agreement, IPEX will license SGI technologies for use in the IPEX Cenix 350 server and IPEX CXFS filesystem.
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To an archaeologist, it's the next best thing to resurrection.
By analyzing thousands of high-resolution CT scans performed Friday at Stanford's School of Medicine, curators are working with scientists and radiologists to unravel the life story of a 2,000-year-old mummy of an Egyptian child -- without even lifting the wraps.
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Paradigm™, a leading provider of advanced petroleum geoscience and engineering software to the oil and gas exploration and production industry worldwide, has purchased five SGI® Altix® systems from Silicon Graphics ( NYSE: SGI ) for its global services organization. Four of the systems, which will be used to process seismic data for Paradigm's energy customers, will be fully installed by May in four major operating regions - the United States, Malaysia, the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS/Central Asia ) and the United Kingdom - with a fifth system to be delivered in mid-May. This transaction follows years of productive cooperation between Paradigm and SGI, resulting in optimized performance for a wide range of software solutions.
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To increase the level of realism when evaluating virtual vehicles and to accelerate its adoption by industry, scientists at Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering (IAO) have selected the Silicon Graphics Prism(TM) platform from SGI (NYSE: SGI) to solve a new class of data and rendering intensive problems never before possible in virtual environments. Using Virtual Drive, physical prototypes become unnecessary and test drives of many different variants can be performed in the very early stages of vehicle design -- reducing costs, accelerating work flows and
resulting in more mature products.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced it has been notified by the New York Stock Exchange that it has fallen below the NYSE's continued listing standard
relating to minimum share price. The NYSE's standard requires that a company's common stock trade at a minimum average closing share price of $1.00 during a consecutive 30-day trading period.
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A forensics laboratory here is using a sophisticated computer system to reproduce crime scenes, re-creating everything from the path of a bullet to the movement of a corpse with startling realism. The first-of-its-kind system, powered by a visualization system from Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI), is located at Rome's RiTriDEC (Ricostruzione Tridimensionale della Dinamica dell'Evento Criminale)
laboratory.
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To address the growing time-to-market challenges for manufacturers competing on a global scale, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) and MSC.Software Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: MNSC.PK) today at the SAE Noise and Vibration Conference and Exhibition unveiled a powerful, integrated solution to streamline and accelerate virtual product development (VPD).
With VPD solutions, engineers can consider more design alternatives and evaluate them more thoroughly. By subjecting digital prototypes to stress tests, aerodynamic studies and other data-intensive analyses, engineers can verify product designs faster and less expensively than if they built and tested physical mock-ups.
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Deere & Company's Moline, Illinois Technology Center has completed the implementation of a storage solution from Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) that dramatically speeds product design processes. With engineering and design teams working in multiple operating environments, data consolidation and management were key factors in the design of Deere's recently updated Center. Deere has
implemented an SGI shared filesystem storage area network (SAN) solution to create instant and concurrent access to data files.
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To alleviate symptoms of Parkinson's Disease and other nervous system movement disorders, researchers and clinicians at The Cleveland Clinic are implanting an FDA-approved electrical stimulation device into the brain. The deep brain stimulation (DBS) device, very similar to a cardiac pacemaker, is being implanted in approximately 200 people a year at The Cleveland Clinic -- one of the largest DBS implant centers in the world.
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Can a proprietary Unix be a desktop OS that competes with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux desktops? Although it may lack the visual effects of OS X, and installation is tricky in parts, Irix is a stable desktop OS -- possibly because it runs only on SGI's own hardware.
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Signaling a new age for professional sports, NBA Entertainment today announced
it has contracted to engage Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) as a vendor partner
with plans to use some of the world's most powerful computing technologies to
create the No. 1 high-tech powerhouse in the world of sports.
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Today at the daratechMVP2005 conference, held May 23-24, 2005 at the Sheraton Detroit Novi Hotel, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) announced a North American reseller agreement whereby the Professional Services arm of SGI will sell VRSim software solutions to its customers. This strategic relationship provides integrated high-performance hardware and software solutions for manufacturing customers who demand high-quality, well-designed products with individual appeal. In addition to the reseller agreement, SGI debuts VRSim Mock-Up software running on the Silicon Graphics Prism(TM) visualization system.
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