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Research firm IDC has drastically cut its estimates for future sales of Intel’s 64bit Itanium processors. Meanwhile, the Risc processors that Itanium is intended to rival in high-end servers are still being developed.
HP is leading the Itanium charge, accounting for some 80 percent of Itanium systems sold in Europe. Meanwhile, Intel is funding a “buy one get one free” deal, so firms get a free Itanium chip for every one they buy in a server. This seems to be a move to maintain price/performance against stiff competition from IBM’s Power5+ and Sun’s UltraSparc T1, formerly codenamed Niagara. Meanwhile, Intel’s dual-core Itanium, codenamed Montecito, has been delayed again, and is now unlikely to reach customers before August.
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Swedish researchers today announced they have installed the country's largest shared-memory supercomputer, a new 64-processor SGI(R) Altix(R) system equipped with half a Terabyte of memory. Deployed this month at the National Supercomputing Center (NSC) at Linkoping University (LiU), the new supercomputer from Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) will allow physicists and other researchers from throughout Sweden to break through computational barriers created by complex computations.
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The company responsible for those cool satellite images accessed by millions of Google Earth users said this week that it has almost completed an enormous upgrade to its internal IT infrastructure to increase production and support the launch of two more imagery satellites over the next two years.
.....DigitalGlobe has also added numerous servers over the past year, ranging from 40 small-to-midlevel enterprise servers from Sun Microsystems (V210 through V1280) to several high-end servers, including a Sun Fire 6800, a Sun Fire 12000, three Sun Fire 15000s and five Origin 3000 supercomputers from Silicon Graphics.
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Dennis McKenna, the CEO of Silicon Graphics (OTC Bulletin Board: SGID), today unveiled his first major moves to achieve the goal of returning the company to
profitability. McKenna is taking decisive action implementing a new organizational structure that is based on a distributed and collaborative management model, with a philosophy to drive responsiveness, flexibility and accountability throughout the organization.
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NEC and SGI Japan have come together to create the friendship bracelet of the 21st century. While geeks living the digital lifestyle aren’t exactly steaming with romance in their lives, an occasional nerd here and there actually has a girlfriend. The strangely named KOTOHANA set is a package of two digital flowers that are as technologically solid as they are romantic. Whether you want to surprise your mother for her birthday, or send some to your internet “girlfriend”, this is the perfect way to show some love, and still retain that gadget-loving mentality.
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Intel has begun a partnership to help a start-up company, Transitive, with software that enables computers with Intel chips to run programs written for rival processors. .........
Intel is Transitive's third major publicly announced customer. The first was Silicon Graphics, whose customers can run software for their older MIPS-based computers on newer Itanium models. The second was Apple Computer, whose Transitive-based Rosetta product lets software for older PowerPC-based models run on new Intel Core-based machines.
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With Linux gaining momentum as the open-source solution worldwide, enterprises relying on SAP(R) solutions now have a compelling new option for implementing flexible IT infrastructures. Today Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) announced that SAP solutions are now certified, supported and available on the award-winning SGI(R) Altix(R) server platform for Linux(R) environments. The certification means that both new and existing SAP customers can leverage the same scalable and high-throughput SGI(R) servers already adopted by many of the world's leading automakers, energy giants, pharmaceutical companies, and manufacturers.
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To answer the demand for scalable, flexible computing platforms among users of SAP enterprise applications, Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) today announced an
agreement with REALTECH AG, a leading technology consulting and software firm, naming REALTECH as a certified SAP migration partner for SGI platforms. REALTECH is based in Walldorf, Germany.
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To enable a wide range of scientific discovery efforts, including storm surge mapping of Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana State University (LSU), in August 2005, installed a powerful combination of technology from Silicon Graphics (BULLETIN BOARD: SGID) for its Center for Computation & Technology. Purchased through James River Technical, Inc., SGI exclusive higher education reseller, the Silicon Graphics Prism(TM) Extreme visualization system and SGI(R) Visual Area Networking (VAN) technology with SGI(R) OpenGL Vizserver(TM) software will also add real-time 3D collaborative visualization to the emerging statewide 40Gb optical network called LONI (Louisiana Optical Network Initiative).
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History fans and students throughout Alabama are looking forward to meeting an unlikely but unforgettable visitor - a priest who has traveled across 6,000 miles and 3,000 years to reveal in dramatic detail how ancient Egyptians preserved and honored their dead.
With "Mummy: the inside story," The British Museum’s hit exhibition that showcases the mummy of Nesperennub, an ancient Egyptian cleric, the Gulf Coast Exploreum will play host to an array of priceless artifacts and high-tech visualizations that unravel the mystery of mummification. Currently on the U.S. leg of a world tour that later will include cities in Asia, "Mummy: the inside story" recently completed its showing at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and is set to open in Mobile, Alabama on March 9, 2006 for a six-month run.
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About 18 months ago, an unknown software startup called Transitive launched a product called QuickTransit, which allows operating systems and applications that were designed for one computing architecture to be run, without changes, on another architecture. Last summer, Transitive broke onto the scene when Silicon Graphics chose it to support Irix Unix applications created for MIPS servers on its Linux-Itanium Altix machines, and then was made famous when Apple used QuickTransit at the heart of the Rosetta environment that allowed it to quickly move from PowerPC to Intel processors.
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Aeronautical Systems Center's Major Shared Resource Center, one of four major high-performance computing centers in the Department of Defense, celebrated the culmination of its High Performance Computing Technology Insertion acquisition process for fiscal year 2005 on March 6 during a ribbon cutting ceremony here.
.......The arrival of an SGI Altix 3700 continues the long tradition of SGI high performance computing at the resource center. This latest SGI system expands the center's SGI supercomputing capability to more than 4100 processors spread across five separate shared memory systems.
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Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) today announced the scientists in the State Key Laboratory of Physics Chemistry of Solid Surfaces at Xiamen University have streamlined their advanced chemistry study with four, 16-processor SGI® Altix® 350 servers equipped with 32GB of memory each. The four SGI Altix 350 servers comprise a cluster that is utilized by different research projects, such as studying the physical chemistry of solid surfaces and the discovery of new materials.
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SGI has picked an obvious strategy for a company struggling to stay alive. Frustrate its customers with complete confusion.
Any dolt could understand last week's proposals to cut 12 per cent of SGI's, shuffle a few executives and keep working on bringing costs down. Less clear, however, was SGI's decision to "consolidate its compute server and visualization platform" and to "pursue new markets in the enterprise space." That's because SGI didn't back up these vague statements with any firm details.
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Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) today unveiled a groundbreaking solution that packs the power of dozens of supercomputer nodes into a single blade by leveraging the inherent parallelism of the industry's most powerful Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology. The new SGI(R) RASC(TM) RC100 computation blade, built with dual Xilinx Virtex(TM) 4 FPGAs, can accelerate the performance of many HPC applications by orders of magnitude over conventional systems at a far lower
cost and much smaller footprint.
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To perform highly realistic walk-throughs and simulations of engineering, industrial planning and design projects, the School of ICT at the Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences selected technology from Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) for a virtual reality (VR) CAVE environment.
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Ken Adelson, NBA Entertainment's senior vice president of production operations and planning, will be the keynote speaker at the Sports Media and Technology Conference being presented by Future Media Concepts (FMC) at the C4-Sports Technology Conference and Exposition, July 17-19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC).......
In building its new digital platform, NBA Entertainment (NBAE) engaged Silicon Graphics (SGI) to provide an SGI(R) InfiniteStorage solution capable of accommodating all NBAE content, which today includes 1,500 NBA games a season, the entire WNBA and D-League seasons, and associated feature footage, as well as the 60 years of archival footage currently stored on hundreds of thousands of tapes.
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A £10m project to create a centre of excellence for visualisation at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (UWA) was announced yesterday.
Supported with over £6m from the Welsh Assembly Government, as well as additional funds from industrial partners Silicon Graphics Inc and Sun Microsystems, the centre will be housed in a purpose-built facility featuring a range of display theatres and workshop facilities.
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Sony Corp. has bought a stake of about 10 percent in workstation and supercomputer sales and integration company SGI Japan Ltd., the companies said Thursday.
Sony took the stake at the same time as it formed an alliance to work with SGI Japan on sales of computer systems to broadcasting organizations. Sony is a major producer of professional equipment for the television broadcasting industry.
SGI Japan was the Japanese unit of Silicon Graphics Inc. until 2001 when NEC Corp. and NEC Soft Co. Ltd. took stakes that when combined gave the NEC group a 60 percent shareholding of the company. Since 1998 SGI and NEC have cooperated on supercomputer sales.
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