Engenio Information Technologies, Inc., a global provider of innovative and highly scalable modular storage systems for the open enterprise, today announced that the company’s 4-Gigabit (4Gbps) Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) technology will be demonstrated at SuperComputing 2004, the premier conference on high-performance computing, networking and storage………
The demonstration features Silicon Graphics servers, LSI Logic host bus adapters and Brocade switches that show 4Gbps Fibre Channel technology is ready to move from test labs to the data center.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE:SGI) today announced it has earned a record eight top spots in the 2004 HPCwire Innovation Awards. The readers and editors of HPCwire, the journal of record for the high-performance computing industry, singled out SGI as the industry’s most innovative HPC technology vendor, with awards for SGI

Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) announced that the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI)will introduce an SGI(R) Altix(R) supercomputer as its new core computation system to assist in developing leading energy systems. As a result of a competitive bidding process, Fujitsu Limited in cooperation with SGI Japan will deliver to JAERI the new SGI(R) Altix(R) 3700 Bx2 model which is based on 2,048 Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors, the Linux(R) operating environment and over 13 terabytes of memory — the world’s largest memory capacity. The system is scheduled to fully operate at the end of March 2005.
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Maintaining its leadership in HPC performance among open systems solutions, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today unveiled a new version of its SGI(R) Altix(R) 3700 system that delivers twice the bandwidth and processor density of its flagship high-end model. The new Altix(R) 3700 Bx2 model makes it easier for users to cost-effectively deploy the world’s most powerful system based on the industry-standard Linux(R) OS and Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors — delivering more compute power while requiring less space.
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