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As more customers face challenges due to expanding data storage demands, slow data back-ups, and sluggish retrieval speeds, Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) today unveiled a breakthrough mass storage sub-system that drives down the cost of rapidly accessing data stored on disk, while dramatically shrinking its footprint.
The SGI(R) InfiniteStorage 10000 fits up to 240TB of Serial ATA (SATA) disk capacity in a single rack consuming just five square feet of floor space, and up to 480TB behind a single pair of controllers. The SGI InfiniteStorage 10000 addresses the needs of users who demand massive amounts of online storage, more terabytes per square foot, and fast retrieval of archived data at a price per terabyte that is comparable to a tape library.
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BakBone Software(R) (TSX:BKB)(Pink Sheets:BKBO), a global provider of heterogeneous integrated data protection solutions, and Silicon Graphics Inc. (OTC:SGID) today announced a strategic partnership to deliver enterprise business continuity. The enhanced offerings are targeted at new and existing enterprise customers, as well as high-performance users and government entities. This high availability solution will allow organizations to consolidate Network Attached Storage (NAS) or tiered storage for improved data lifecycle management and expanded data protection, including disaster recovery and business continuity.
This agreement further enhances BakBone's continued leadership position in providing customers industry-leading data protection solutions for Linux(R) environments. With the expanded relationship, SGI will resell BakBone's NetVault(R): Replicator worldwide as part of an integrated high availability and disaster recovery solution for greater protection against application downtime and data loss.
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Pointwise announces the availability of their CFD meshing software, Gridgen Version 15.09, on the Silicon Graphics Prism Deskside workstation.
“The first SGI workstation to which Gridgen was ported was a Model 2400 back in 1987,” said John Steinbrenner, Pointwise’s Vice President of Research and Development. “We are very excited to continue our 19 year relationship with SGI on their latest workstation, the Prism. Gridgen has been available on Linux for 5 years now and it remains our fastest growing platform. The result of combining Linux and SGI’s hardware is a platform that’s well suited for Gridgen.” Gridgen’s port to the Prism was facilitated by the QuickTransit software from Transitive.
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Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) today announced that it was selected by Bio-IT World editors as one of 50 companies that have driven and continue to drive the future of biomedical research and drug discovery. The Bio-IT World Bio-IT 50 identifies top sciences firms that provide the most indispensable and enabling technologies to the life sciences field.
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To greatly enhance clinical treatment and medical research capabilities, with special emphasis on genomics data mining, proteomics data mining and translational medicine, Erasmus Medical Center added server and visualization systems from Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) to its hospital and research facility in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The SGI(R) technology, installed late last year, is used for collaboration and visualization of large amounts of data, applied in neurosciences, cardiovascular, and cancer fields, as well as monitoring fetal development.
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THE RECENT "strong rumour" about Japanese consortium (whatever that may mean) "buying" over the Itanium platform from Intel (whatever that may mean) sounds quite interesting - if not intriguing, as it is hot on the heels of the more official announcement recently about a 10 billion dollar Itanium investment fund by a group of vendors........
But why a Japanese consortium, that is, one in which there is no HP, the co-author of Itanium and the party who sacrificed the most for it, and SGI, the nearly bankrupt Itanium system technology leader?
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Cray said Monday it has been notified of a possible delisting from the Nasdaq, the latest in a series of woes plaguing Cray and other one-time giants in the world of supercomputing.........
Silicon Graphics, or SGI, was removed from the New York Stock Exchange because its shares were consistently below $1—a far cry from its 1996 high of about $45 (see SGI Gets Kicked Off NYSE)
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Today's high-performance computing architectures may be starting to limit the pace of industry, science, and research and development. This limitation creates a potential crisis for business and countries striving to innovate and optimize massive amounts of complex data in order to develop a competitive advantage in an increasingly competitive global marketplace.
That's the theme of a keynote speech that Dr. Eng Lim Goh, senior vice president and chief technology officer of Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID), will present at TechSouth -- The Gulf Coast Technology Summit and Exposition at the Cajundome Convention Center in Lafayette, Louisiana (April 26-28, 2006). Dr. Goh will discuss new concepts in massive shared-memory computing architectures designed to offer the scientific and business communities a way to accelerate innovation, knowledge discovery and analytics.
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MagiQ Technologies Inc., which is based in New York, has formed a joint venture to commercialize diamond-encrusted single-photon sources for use as components of quantum cryptography systems. Also participating in the agreement are Silicon Graphics Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., and, in Australia, Qucor Pty Ltd. of Sydney and the University of Melbourne.
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Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK) today launched its Academy Award-winning Discreet Inferno visual effects system running on the Linux operating system. The Discreet Inferno system enables the world's top digital artists in broadcast facilities, post-production houses and film studios to deliver extraordinary moving imagery. This system contains a robust creative toolset for high-speed compositing, advanced graphics and interactive design.
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WE HAVE LONG heard rumors of SGI AMD-based products surfacing, but every time we did, the oft-mentioned, red-throated reliable sources told us that the project had been canceled.
It looks like said sources are wrong, according to a release by Interactive Supercomputing found on Linux Electrons, there is a version of the Star-P compiler coming out for SGI Opteron boxes.
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Leveraging its expertise in providing Information Technology (IT) infrastructures designed to efficiently manage massive amounts of data for broadcast and post-production workflows, Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) takes digital content management to the next level with new collaborative management solutions at NAB 2006, April 24-27 in Las Vegas.
Making their NAB debut (Booth# SL3764) are new SGI(R) systems that together serve as shared computing and storage resources enabling customers to create the highest quality content through collaborative management of their media throughout their enterprise.
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Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID), a leader in high performance computing today announced preliminary financial results for its third fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2006.
Based on preliminary data available at this time, the Company expects revenue of approximately $108 million for the third fiscal quarter as compared to its guidance of $140 million to $160 million. The Company's cost reduction initiatives continue to be on track, although there continue to be significant restructuring and professional advisory fees associated with the turnaround efforts.
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As a continuation of its strategic agreement with SGI Japan, Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) announced today that it has reached a preliminary agreement to spin off Silicon Graphics Broadcast Europe which has served as a dedicated broadcast business unit in EMEA since 2004. The European broadcast group will become an independent SGI reseller through a 100-percent investment by SGI Japan Ltd.
In November 2001, SGI entered into a long-term exclusive distribution agreement with SGI Japan to supply SGI equipment, services and solutions in Japan. SGI Japan is jointly owned by SGI, NEC and NEC Soft. Under the agreement, Silicon Graphics Broadcast Europe will be named Silex Media and continue to provide SGI-based solutions to broadcast customers throughout Europe. Silex Media will become an asset of SGI Japan.
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As demand grows for higher resolution digital content from high-definition to 2K and 4K, and for more versions of that content for film, television, Internet and mobile delivery, entertainment production facilities have been turning to Silicon Graphics (OTC Bulletin Board: SGID - News) to help solve their big data content management challenges. SGI has leveraged its high-performance computing and storage expertise that helps government and defense agencies, research universities and Fortune 1000 companies worldwide, to assist Media companies manage the massive amounts of content data impacting their ability to be more productive and profitable.
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Silicon Graphics (OTC Bulletin Board: SGID) today introduced the SGI(R) InfiniteStorage 6700 system explicitly designed to deliver industry-leading throughput of streaming data in real time-up to 3 gigabytes per second (GBps) sustained, for read or write. Targeted at industries such as broadcast, 4K digital intermediate (DI), science and government industries, the SGI InfiniteStorage 6700 system's real- time isochronous architecture features 4Gbit Fibre Channel connectivity. The SGI InfiniteStorage 6700 is a new, next-level, high-performance version of the rich-media SGI InfiniteStorage RM660 introduced for broadcast and production in late 2004.
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To provide broadcast-ready central production storage that easily integrates with an existing media management system, ProSiebenSat.1 Produktion, the technical service division of Germany's largest private broadcaster, the ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, selected SGI(R) InfiniteStorage and server hardware and SGI-developed software from Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID).
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There are a lot of Linux filesystems comparisons available but most of them are anecdotal, based on artificial tasks or completed under older kernels. This benchmark essay is based on 11 real-world tasks appropriate for a file server with older generation hardware
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