Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that Pirelli Labs, the excellence research and development center of Italy’s Pirelli & C. S.p.A. (PC:MI), will use SGI(R) server and storage technologies as tools for its advanced activities in the
field of photonics, sending communications on particles of light.
One of the world’s leading makers of tires and advanced solutions for telecommunications, Pirelli will drive its leading-edge design and analysis efforts with a milestone system: the 1,500th SGI(R) Altix(R) server sold worldwide.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced results for its third fiscal quarter which ended March 25, 2005. Revenue for the third quarter was $159 million, in line with the preliminary results announced April 7, 2005. Gross margin was 34.5%
compared with 37.5% in the second quarter. SGI’s third-quarter operating loss was $45 million, compared with an operating loss of $9 million in the second quarter. The third-quarter net loss was $45 million or $0.17 per share, compared with a net loss of $11 million or $0.04 per share in the second quarter.
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Leveraging its expertise with broadcast and production partners and in designing all-digital workflow environments, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) posted several systems integration wins in the past few quarters.
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The Khronos Group’s implementation of the OpenML

EFILM LLC, a digital film lab with movies like We Were Soldiers, Spy Kids 2, and Frida has picked Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) (NYSE: SGI – message board) for what SGI calls “digital intermediaries,” meaning processes that include color correction and the creation of high-res digital masters. EFILM has networked three SGI Onyx 3000 visualization systems with four SGI Origin 300 servers and 13 Fibre Channel switches from Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: BRCD – message board) to create its network.
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