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PipelineFX, makers of Qube!™ software, the leading render farm management software for film production, game development, and digital media education around the world, today announced that it will exhibit at SIGGRAPH 2007 in San Diego in booth #337 along with a variety of leading industry partners.
“We are excited to be exhibiting for our sixth consecutive year at SIGGRAPH in beautiful San Diego,” said Richard Lewis, VP of Sales for PipelineFX. “We will publicly debut Qube! 5.2, with full support for 64-bit applications and hardware, satellite rendering support for Autodesk 3D applications and the new “SimpleCMD” interface for generating submission GUI’s quickly and easily. We will also welcome some of our top industry partners to our booth including:
SGI: Showing the SGI Render Management bundle, the team from SGI’s Digital Content Management group will be on hand to show the high-density Altix XE™ rendering server system currently in production at Vanguard Animation.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. and READING, England, July 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Having won more than 150 Grands Prix, 11 drivers' and eight constructors' world titles, McLaren is one of the most successful teams in the history of Formula 1. Vodafone McLaren Mercedes currently has a 27-point lead in the 2007 constructors' world championship, with its drivers Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso lying first and second in the drivers' standings. Rookie Hamilton also secured consecutive podium finishes in the first nine of the season's races -- something no other Formula 1 driver has ever achieved in their first year of racing.
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McLaren had been using CFD for a number of years when, in 2005, it appointed SGI as its official supplier for CFD supercomputing, storage and visualization equipment. McLaren's initial purchase included an SGI(R) Altix(R) supercomputer, visualization solutions, SGI(R) InfiniteStorage system and the SGI(R) InfiniteStorage CXFS(TM) shared filesystem. The company has subsequently added to this investment in July 2007, with the addition of (and ongoing enhancements to) two further SGI Altix supercomputers, and the recent introduction of the SGI(R) InfiniteStorage Data Migration Facility (DMF).
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The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation last week announced a new benchmark that gauges the performance of parallel computer clusters that make use of the popular Message Passing Interface (MPI) protocols that lash the machines together so they can cooperate to do computational jobs.
The SPEC MPI2007 test was created with the assistance of Argonne National Lab in the United States and the University of Dresden in Germany as well as with support from Advanced Micro Devices, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, QLogic, and Sun Microsystems. The test comes in 32-bit and 64-bit modes, and runs on Linux, Unix, and Windows servers. The current mid-sized dataset for the MPI2007 benchmark works on clusters with up to 512 processors, and SPEC is working to make a larger dataset to test more monstrous clusters.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SGI announced today that it plans to release its fourth quarter 2007 and FY2007 financial results after the market closes on Thursday, August 30, 2007. The Company has scheduled a Webcast and conference call to discuss results on Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. PDT.
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Suppliers love user stories involving Formula 1 Grand Prix racing teams, particularly the winners, like Vodafone McLaren Mercedes. However, we need to separate the race track glamour from the IT reality and ask if the storage example, use case in the modern jargon, is relevant. This SGI case study is interesting because it is a different way of managing multi-tiered storage.
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in SGI Advanced Linux Environment, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions, cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. These issues are caused by errors in bind, cups, qt, tetex and xpdf. For additional information, see : FrSIRT/ADV-2007-2627 - FrSIRT/ADV-2007-2704 - FrSIRT/ADV-2007-2733
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(RTTNews) - Thursday, SGI (SGIC | charts | news | PowerRating) reported fourth quarter net loss of $36.93 million or $3.32 per share, compared to a loss of $20.38 million or $0.08 per share in the corresponding quarter last year.

Operating loss for the quarter widened to $24.78 million from $8.25 million in the same quarter previous year.

On a proforma basis, net loss for the quarter was $11.0 million.

Quarterly revenue rose to $122.3 million from $115.7 million in the same quarter previous year.
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 30 -- With a new CEO at its helm, SGI completed its fiscal year 2007 with the launch of a breakthrough blade system purpose-built for high-performance computing (HPC), while racking up significant customer wins across SGI's server and storage product lines. The company also released financial results for the Fiscal Year 2007 today (http://www.sgi.com/company_info/investors/).

The company's fourth quarter, which ended June 29, was SGI's first fiscal quarter under the leadership of Bo Ewald, who was named CEO in April. Working with SGI's leadership and global workforce, Ewald has focused on positioning SGI for sustainable long-term growth and innovation through delivery of uniquely competitive, customer-focused solutions.
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Fiscal Year 2007 Highlights
Overall in fiscal 2007, SGI:

-- Grew its Core Products business by 27% over 2006, refreshing every
compute and storage product and introducing a new Xeon(R)-based cluster
product line that is achieving strong market penetration
-- Delivered and gained acceptance on, among others, a 2,560 processor
supercomputer at the Japan Marine Science and Technology Center and a
9,728 processor system at Leibniz Computing Centre (LRZ), one of the
world's most powerful computers, demonstrating that SGI remains the
leader in solving the toughest scientific computing challenges
-- Ended the year in a strong financial position and narrowed its net
operating loss to the lowest level in many years, establishing a
foundation upon which it will build for the future
-- Began the transition to a growth mode, including bringing on industry
leader Robert H. (Bo) Ewald as CEO

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