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• SGI BUILDS LARGEST FPGA SUPERCOMPUTER.

  - 2007-12-01

  SGI (NASDAQ:SGIC), Sunnyvale, Calif., has 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 SGI (NASDAQ:SGIC), Sunnyvale, Calif., has built the world's largest Field...

  Tags: bioinformatics, FPGA, Silicon Graphics Inc., supercomputer

• Mitrionics' Accelerated NCBI BLAST Runs on World's Largest FPGA Supercomputer Built by SGI, Boosts Query Performance More Than 900 Times Over 68-Node Cluster

  - 2007-11-12

  Supercomputing 2007, SC07 Booth #272 -- MitrionicsTM, Inc., developer of the MitrionTM Software Acceleration Platform and the Mitrion Virtual Processor, today announced that its Mitrion-Accelerated NCBI BLAST application was successfully run on the world's largest Field Programmable Gate Array FPGA supercomputer configuration, which was built and tested by SGI®. ...

  Tags: FPGA, performance, Silicon Graphics Inc., supercomputer

• Mitrionics & SGI Present Workshop on Mitrion-Accelerated NCBI BLAST & FPGA Supercomputing at Manchester Technical Symposium

  - 2007-03-22

  MitrionicsTM, Inc., developer of the MitrionTM Virtual Processor and software-centric Mitrion-C parallel programming language for FPGA Supercomputing acceleration, and SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC), manufacturer of FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array-based SGI® Altix® family servers with SGI® RASCTM RC100 computation blades, will be co-hosting and presenting a full-day workshop titled, "20x...

  Tags: FPGA, Silicon Graphics Inc., workshop

• BioTeam Names SGI, Mitrionics and Accelerated BLAST in Top Ten BioIT Trends for 2007

  - 2007-03-09

  SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC), manufacturer of FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array-based SGI® Altix® family servers with SGI® RASCTM RC100 computation blades, and MitrionicsTM, Inc., developer of the MitrionTM Virtual Processor and software-centric Mitrion-C programming language for FPGA Supercomputing acceleration, were named as one of the Top Ten BioIT Trends for 2007...

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• Mitrionics and SGI Form Alliance to Make FPGA Supercomputing Adoption Faster and Easier for Customers

  - 2006-06-28

  MitrionicsTM, Inc., developer of the MitrionTM Virtual Processor and software-centric Mitrion-C programming language for FPGA Supercomputing acceleration, today announced a strategic technology and marketing alliance with Silicon Graphics (PINKSHEETS: SGID) to facilitate customer adoption for FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array Supercomputing technologies used for commercial applications and deployments. The...

  Tags: alliance, FPGA, Silicon Graphics Inc., supercomputing

• SGI and Mitrionics Announce Joint FPGA Supercomputing Workshop Summer Tour in the U.S. and EU

  - 2006-05-16

  MitrionicsTM, Inc., the technology leader in programming FPGAs Field Programmable Gate Arrays for supercomputing software acceleration, and Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) announce their joint "FPGA Supercomputing Workshop Summer Tour" starting in Paris, France on May 23-24. During the months of May, June and July, SGI and Mitrionics will host a...

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• Celoxica Releases Programming Environment for SGI RASC RC100 Blades; Software Compilation to FPGA Co-Processor Enables Supercomputing Adoption

  - 2006-05-08

  OXFORDSHIRE, England -- Celoxica (LSE:CXA) today announced software programming support for the SGIR RASCTM RC100 blade from Silicon Graphics (OTC:SGID). Based on SGI's groundbreaking RASC (Reconfigurable Application-Specific Computing) technology, the RC100 computation blade packs the power of dozens of supercomputer nodes into a single blade by leveraging the parallelism of...

  Tags: blade, coprocessor, FPGA, programming, Silicon Graphics Inc., software, supercomputing

• Reconfigurable computing technology

  - 2005-11-01

  Silicon Graphics introduced a hardware solution based on SGI Reconfigurable Application-Specific Computing RASC technology, capable of increasing application performance by hundreds of times over conventional systems. RASC technology enables greatly improved scalability and bandwidth for data-intensive applications critical to oil and gas exploration and other data-dependent industries. The reconfigurable computing...

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• Nallatech to Collaborate with SGI on Developing FPGA High-Performance Computing Solutions; Agreement Will Target New Business Opportunities for Demanding FPGA-Based Computing Systems

  - 2005-07-18

  CUMBERNAULD, U.K. -- Nallatech, the FPGA high-performance computing solutions experts, announced it has entered into a strategic collaborative arrangement with Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NYSE: SGI), to develop new business opportunities within the high-performance computing market. The companies plan to offer new products and services based on SGI's reconfigurable system technology...

  Tags: agreement, FPGA, Silicon Graphics Inc.

• Silicon Graphics Teams With Celoxica to Accelerate High-Performance Computing Applications; FPGA-based Acceleration Solution Combines Celoxica C-based Design Tools With SGI's Reconfigurable Computing Technology

  - 2005-06-20

  OXFORDSHIRE, England -- Celoxica, Ltd. today announced support for Silicon Graphics, Inc.'s SGI Reconfigurable Application-Specific Computing RASC technology in the Celoxica DK Design Suite of tools for C-based design and synthesis. Celoxica and SGI have teamed to deliver libraries and tools defining a software programming environment for algorithm acceleration using...

  Tags: C, FPGA, high-performance, high-performance computing, Silicon Graphics Inc., team, tool