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November 2, 2007

Silicon Graphics files for $100 mln stock shelf

WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Silicon Graphics Inc (SGIC.O: Quote, Profile, Research) filed with regulators on Thursday to periodically sell up to $100 million in common stock. The company said in a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it would use the proceeds from the offering for sales and marketing, research and development, and general corporate purposes. Under a shelf registration, a company may sell securities in one or more separate offerings with the size, price and terms to be determined at the time of sale. More

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Posted on November 2, 2007 9:54 AM |

November 7, 2007

SGI Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 Results

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) today announced financial results for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2008, which ended September 28, 2007. First Quarter FY08 Highlights Overall in its first quarter, SGI:
  • Grew bookings more than 40% over the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007 with key wins in target growth areas
  • Continued stability in pro forma results
  • Achieved its goals for revenue, expenses and cash
"The first step in our growth strategy is to increase our bookings, so I'm very pleased with our order rate this quarter," said Bo Ewald, SGI Chief Executive Officer. "We saw very good momentum in our bookings, with an increase of 43% over Q4. I'm particularly encouraged by the composition and mix of the Q1 orders, which came from across our target markets with the largest single order being under $5M. That is a good step in our plan to build our base of customers without having to rely on very large single system orders." More

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Posted on November 7, 2007 11:19 AM |

November 9, 2007

SGI Builds World's Largest FPGA Supercomputer, Boosts Nucleotide Query Performance By More Than 900 Times Over 68-Node Cluster

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) today announced it built the world's largest Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) supercomputer configuration, then ran a broadly used bioinformatics application more than 900 times faster than the same application would run on a traditional cluster. SGI's reconfigurable supercomputer featured 70 FPGAs, more than any single system built to date. SGI's FPGA supercomputer accelerated the performance of a complex BLAST-n query by more than 900 times, completing in less than 33 minutes what took a 68-node Opteron-based cluster approximately three weeks to finish. (1) The application matched 20 nucleotide base pairs against 600,000 queries. More

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Posted on November 9, 2007 2:26 PM |

November 12, 2007

SGI and FedCentric Technologies LLC Announce Memory-Centric Database (MCDB) Accelerator Solution

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Companies needing business analysis for applications such as revenue protection, social network analysis, fraud detection, Web analytics, biometrics, RFID and complex event processing can now achieve at least an order of magnitude improvement in application performance with a landmark, memory-centric, energy-efficient computing solution from FedCentric Technologies, an SGI (Nasdaq: SGIC) and Oracle Value Added Reseller. The FedCentric MCDB Accelerator solution will be demonstrated at Oracle OpenWorld, November 11-15 at the Moscone Center West Booth #3424 in San Francisco. Powered by SGI(R) Altix(R) 4700 or SGI(R) Altix(R) 450 servers, the FedCentric MCDB Accelerator solution uses in-memory database technology to provide significant improvement in response time and throughput over traditional disk-based systems. More

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Posted on November 12, 2007 2:53 PM |

November 13, 2007

SGI Packs More Power In Altix XE Clusters

RENO, Nev., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Supercomputing 2007 -- SGI (Nasdaq: SGIC) today unveiled new cluster nodes and processor upgrades aimed at increasing the performance of SGI(R) Altix(R) XE clusters while maintaining their ability to deploy quickly, consume power efficiently, and help keep data centers running cooler. SGI is extending its Altix XE line of servers and clusters with two new models powered by next-generation 45nm Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processors: the Quad- Core Intel Xeon 5400 Series "Harpertown" and Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5200 Series "Wolfdale." More

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Posted on November 13, 2007 10:13 AM |

November 14, 2007

SGI Unveils InfiniteStorage NEXIS 9000 NAS

RENO, Nev., Nov. 14 -- SGI today unveiled SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS 9000 NAS, a new platform for extracting high performance from file-based storage and gaining in storage consolidation efficiencies. Efforts made by SGI to develop new storage technologies have pushed scalability, file directory size, and performance to levels needed to support accelerating data growth related to business, scientific, and digital media applications. SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS solutions greatly simplify shared storage and give organizations the ease of an appliance in terms of initial installation, automated asset discovery and day-to-day management. The newest addition to the family -- the SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS 9000 NAS -- also pushes data throughput to new levels. Large scientific, education or enterprise teams can now consolidate multiple departments on a single NAS platform and increase bandwidth to address demanding performance requirements. More

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Posted on November 14, 2007 6:43 PM |

November 15, 2007

DoD'S 'Hawk' Takes Off On Schedule

RENO, Nev., Nov. 14 -- "HAWK," the largest and most powerful computer in the Department of Defense (DoD), has achieved new heights of application scalability for a DoD system by running a single application across 9,000 processor cores. More significantly, the feat was achieved only a few weeks after the system was delivered. An SGI Altix 4700 system from SGI, HAWK was successfully deployed ahead of schedule at the Aeronautical Systems Center Major Shared Resource Center (ASC MSRC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The supercomputer is powered by 9,216 Intel Itanium 2 processor cores and features 20TB of globally addressable memory and 440TB of usable disk space. The application-scaling breakthrough was achieved using advanced software codes that study the characteristics of turbulence. Dr. George Vahala, professor of physics at The College of William and Mary, ran a combination of Lattice Boltzmann and quantum turbulence codes on HAWK over a period of several weeks. A number of Vahala's runs utilized all available 9,000 cores. More

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Posted on November 15, 2007 10:21 AM |

NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer

George Ou from ZDNet has been at the SC07 supercomputing convention in Reno, USA, and has been chatting to NASA and SGI. He's had a closeup look at examples of SGI's Altix 4700 single system image (SSI) monster, as well as SGI's Altix ICE 8200 cluster. Some interesting numbers and some good closeup pictures - slide on over to http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=864 and have a look.

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Posted on November 15, 2007 3:21 PM |

November 23, 2007

SC07 Holds First Cluster Challenge

The SC07 Cluster Challenge was held in conjunction with the SC07 conference in Reno, Nevada. The event sought to create an exhibition and competition in which teams of undergraduate students would compete in a demonstration of talent, technology and accessibility of entry-level supercomputing. The activity was intended to highlight the gains in hardware performance, ease of use of clusters and the power and availability of simulation software. To whet peoples' appetites, the Cluster Challenge Committee challenged that a half rack of a modern cluster would be competitive with the number one system on the TOP500 from only 10 years ago! In fact, the top Linpack score realized in the Challenge was 420 gigaflops, which would have made the TOP500 list only three years ago. This announcement was made during the TOP500 BoF session at SC07 and was met with loud cheers and applause from the attendees. More

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Posted on November 23, 2007 3:18 PM |

November 29, 2007

SGI Gathers Accolades at Supercomputing 2007

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SGI (Nasdaq: SGIC) today announced that its SGI(R) Altix(R) systems continue to garner honors for performance and innovation. Earlier this month at the Supercomputing 2007 conference, a team from Canada's University of Alberta used a 64-core, 144GB SGI(R) Altix(R) XE310 cluster to win the first-ever Cluster Challenge. In the SC07 Cluster Challenge, teams of undergraduate students assembled clusters on the SC07 exhibit floor and ran benchmarks and applications selected by industry and HPC veterans. More

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Posted on November 29, 2007 10:40 AM |

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