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SGI Reports Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 Results

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SGI NASDAQ: SGIC today announced financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2008, which ended March 28, 2008. The Company's Webcast and conference call to discuss results is Tuesday, May 6 at 2:00 p.m. PDT. The Webcast and presentation materials will be available on the SGI Investors Relations Web page at the time of the call, at http://www.sgi.com/company_info/investors/. Third Quarter FY08 Highlights Overall in its third quarter, SGI: -- Grew orders 50 percent over orders received in the third quarter of the prior year -- Grew backlog to $134 million as of March 28, 2008, an 80 percent increase over the beginning of the company's fiscal year on a comparable basis -- Accelerated its software strategy with acquisition of key IP assets formerly owned by Linux Networx "We have made great strides in continuing to execute on our strategy this quarter," said Bo Ewald, SGI Chief Executive Officer. "We saw a 50 percent increase in orders compared to the third quarter of last year, acquired significant software assets to strengthen our business and accelerate development of our Industrial Strength Linux Environment, announced a new support solutions program to reinforce our services offerings, and continued building on solid traction in our core markets. And with new significant customer wins in April, the fourth quarter is off to a strong start as well." More

NASA to fire up SGI supercomputer

20,480-core Altix ICE system capable of 245 trillion operations per second NASA has chosen SGI to supply its next major supercomputer after a competitive evaluation launched last year. The 20,480-core Altix ICE system will be installed this summer in NASA's Advanced Supercomputing facility at the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley. The supercomputer will be capable of 245 trillion operations per second, and presents new opportunities for scientists and engineers attempting to tackle some of the largest and most complex problems in history. NASA's plan to resume manned missions to the Moon and eventually Mars is one of the chief reasons for securing a powerful computing resource. In addition to space exploration, the SGI supercomputer will support NASA's aeronautics, science and space operations initiatives. Powered by quad-core Intel Xeon processors, the supercomputer will feature more than 20,800Gb of system memory, roughly equal to 10,000 desktop PCs. NASA will also deploy a next-generation InfiniteStorage InfiniBand disk platform capable of storing and managing 450TB of data, an amount five times larger than the entire print collection of the Library of Congress. More

SGI Breakthrough Technology Empowers Genome Center Research Around the World

BOSTON, April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BIO-IT WORLD CONFERENCE AND EXPO 2008, Booth 306/308 -- As scientists seek to accelerate sequencing genomes of varied arrays of organisms from fish parasites to cancer cells in an effort to determine causes and cures of diseases that plague mankind, breakthrough technology from SGI is powering research in genome centers around the world. Leading institutions, including the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, Ariz., the Malaysia Genome Institute in Selangor and the China National Human Genome Center in Shanghai, have turned to SGI(R) high-performance computing and storage solutions to create an optimal workflow for faster time to discovery. More

SGI Technology Powers University of Hawaii's Papaya Genome Sequencing Project

BOSTON, April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- BIO-IT WORLD CONFERENCE AND EXPO 2008, Booth #306/308 -- An International Papaya Genome Consortium led by University of Hawaii (UH) researchers has completed the Papaya Genome Sequencing Project and, from the start, researchers relied on technology from SGI (Nasdaq: SGIC) to provide the processing power and speed required to run the assemblies. The papaya genome was sequenced using a whole genome shotgun approach running on the combination of an SGI(R) Altix(R) system, SGI(R) InfiniteStorage and Qube! scheduling software from PipelineFX(R). It has taken two years to construct the physical map and to sequence the 372 million base pairs. The disease-resistant "SunUp" papaya is now the first fruit -- and the first transgenic crop -- to be sequenced, helping to pave the way for international export of genetically modified fruits and vegetables. More

SGI Announces Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 Earnings Release and Earnings Call

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SGI announced today that it plans to release its third quarter 2008 financial results after the market closes on Tuesday, May 6, 2008. The Company has scheduled a Webcast and conference call to discuss results on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. PDT. More

Sky Channel Leverages All-Digital On-Air Production and Asset Management System Powered By SGI Technology

LAS VEGAS — NAB Booth SL4314 (April 2008)—Faced with a growing business broadcasting an average of 12 hours of live racing events daily and an aging 15,000-plus videotape library in six different formats, Sky Channel, in Sydney, Australia, made the decision to go digital by purchasing a media asset management and storage solution from SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC). The new digital infrastructure includes SGI® Altix® XE servers and an SGI® InfiniteStorage system, fully integrated into the heart of the station’s operations. Installation began in March 2007, and now that testing and training is complete, Sky Channel is due to go live in early April. More

Vanguard Animation Taps SGI Render Management Solution

LAS VEGAS, NAB Show, April 14 -- Vanguard Animation's all computer-generated (CG) movie Space Chimps, distributed by 20th Century Fox and due to open in 2,500 theaters July 18, made all deadlines with ease because of technology from SGI and PipelineFX and the digital media expertise of SGI partner Seven Group. In August 2007, realizing their white box servers were not going to be able to handle their multi-gigabyte data file rendering, Vanguard purchased the SGI Render Management Solution to deliver the highest quality images in a timely fashion. "We purchased the SGI systems for the really big shots, the really big sequences that required massive memory and very high throughput. With the Altix servers we were able to achieve those shots and sequences in a matter of hours rather than a matter of days," said Tom Jacomb, Associate Producer, Space Chimps. "We did 1,720 shots total, and we were running about 3TB of rendering per night. Because of SGI's contributions we were able to deliver on time and on budget." More

NBA Expands Relationship With SGI on Groundbreaking Digital Media Management System

LAS VEGAS and NEW YORK, April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NAB Booth SL4314 -- The National Basketball Association (NBA) and SGI NASDAQ: SGIC today announced a multiyear extension of their relationship to expand the league's groundbreaking digital workflow and media management system, the NBA Digital Media Management System. After successfully unveiling the NBA Digital Media Management System with SGI during the 2006-07 NBA season, the first-of-its-kind system in professional sports enabled the league to simultaneously ingest and archive footage from up to 14 NBA games, edit the archival content on the fly, provide full game broadcasts, clips and other NBA content to 214 countries worldwide. The extended relationship between the two companies will enable the NBA to accelerate and double the historical digital archiving effort by ingesting 60,000 hours of video content each year. Overall, the entire history of the NBA archive, which contains more than 400,000 hours of content dating back to 1946, will ultimately be digitized. More

Back to the Future: SGI Returns to Visualization

In the 1980s and early 1990s, if you were doing anything serious in computer graphics you were doing it with SGI gear. Then a series of strategic missteps and the emergence of incredibly powerful, cheap graphics cards for PCs made the company's graphics lines irrelevant, and for nearly a decade they've survived as a server company. The SGI Virtu line announced this week steers SGI back into graphics for what it says is the long haul. But is there a market left to capture? More

SGI Launches First Entry In New Generation of Visualization Solutions

Virtu VN200 Delivers Advanced Real-time Visualization for Collaborative and Standalone Environments SUNNYVALE, Calif. (April 8, 2008)—SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) today launched the first entry in the Virtu solutions family, a new generation of SGI® visualization systems. The SGI® Virtu VN200 is designed to power the performance visualization needs of today's HPC and commercial business users. The Virtu VN200 solution brings a new level of productivity, flexibility, power and accuracy to engineers, scientists and creative professionals. It accelerates the adoption of visualization within environments that must process today's large data sets. The Virtu VN200 solution, combined with patented SGI intellectual property, empowers users to analyze visual models in a centralized environment and then view their simulations anywhere. More