MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SGI (NYSE: SGI) announced today that for the first fiscal quarter, ending on September 24, 2004, revenue is projected to be approximately $175 million and the operating loss is expected to be approximately $25 million. The Company previously forecast revenue of $190 to $210 million and an operating loss of approximately $10 to $20 million for the first quarter.
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The Blue Gene/L machine overtaking the Earth Simulator has political as well as technical implications. When the Earth Simulator was introduced in 2002, it stunned the U.S. scientific and political community, which feared that the United States was losing its technological edge. The government set aside money to entice companies such as IBM, Silicon Graphics Inc. and Cray Inc. to develop supercomputers that could run faster than the Earth Simulator.
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Today SBS Technologies(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:SBSE), a leading provider of embedded computing technology, announced the first set of InfiniBand(TM) IRIX(R) drivers with HIPPI-FP (High Performance Parallel Interface-Framing Protocol) emulation for InfiniBand host channel adapters (HCAs) supporting SGI 3.3V platforms.
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HP is doing a lot of explaining after it revealed this weekend that it will no longer put Itanium processors in its high-performance workstations.
… However, while HP continues to be a leader with its Itanium shipments — up some 500 percent according to the latest Gartner numbers — Jenkins said HP’s market share is eroding to companies like NEC, Hitachi and SGI when it comes to Itanium projects.
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Silicon Graphics and Silicon Optix jointly demonstrated a new Immersive Theater configuration at the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) conference this week in San Jose, CA.
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