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• NASA, Intel, SGI Plan to 'Soup Up' Supercomputer

  - 2008-05-07

  MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA, Intel Corp., and SGI today announced the signing of an agreement establishing intentions to collaborate on significantly increasing the space agency's supercomputer performance and capacity. Under the terms of a Space Act Agreement, NASA will work closely with Intel and SGI to increase computational...

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• SGI to provide supercomputer to NASA

  - 2008-05-07

  TELECOMWORLDWIRE-7 May 2008-SGI to provide supercomputer to NASAC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com SGI (Nasdaq: SGIC), a provider of high-performance computing, announced on Tuesday (6 May) that NASA has selected the company to supply its next major supercomputer, a 20,480-core SGI Altix ICE system. The new SGI system will...

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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

• ALTIX 4700 ACQUIRED AS PART OF NAS TECHNOLOGY REFRESH.

  - 2007-09-01

  SGI (NASDAQ:SGIC), Sunnyvale, Calif., and NASA have announced that the agency has selected a record-setting SGIR AltixR supercomputer in its evaluation of next-generation technology to meet future high-performance computing HPC requirements. Th SGI (NASDAQ:SGIC), Sunnyvale, Calif., and NASA have announced that the agency has selected...

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• U.S. DEFENSE COMPUTING SOARS WITH ALTIX SUPERCOMPUTER.

  - 2007-04-01

  With the world facing unprecedented security concerns, Department of Defense DoD engineers and scientists developing the next breakthrough in warfare have no time to lose. Fortunately, a powerful new supercomputer from SGI (NASDAQ:SGIC) will help them make every minute count. Deployed at the...

  Tags: computing, Silicon Graphics Inc., SOFTWARE, supercomputer, U.S. Department of Defense, UNIX

• UC RIVERSIDE BOOSTS RESEARCH WITH SGI ALITX SUPERCOMPUTER.

  - 2007-03-01

  At the University of California, Riverside, faculty and administrators understand the enormous value of collaborative research, in which investigators in one discipline work closely with researchers in other fields. Such an approach can speed innovat At the University of California, Riverside, faculty and administrators understand...

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• Extreme processing.

  - 2006-05-01

  Silicon Graphics (Mountain View, CA, USA) unveiled a groundbreaking solution that packs the power of dozens of supercomputer nodes into a single blade by leveraging the inherent parallelism of the industry's most powerful Field-Programmable Gate Arra Silicon Graphics (Mountain View, CA, USA) unveiled a groundbreaking ...

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• SGI RANKS THIRD ON LIST OF WORLD'S TOP 500 SUPERCOMPUTING.

  - 2005-08-01

  Silicon Graphics (NYSE:SGI), Mountain View, has announced that the world's third fastest supercomputer is an SGIR AltixR system as noted on the 25th edition of the Top500 list of the worlds' most powerful computers. In addition, five of SGI syste Silicon Graphics (NYSE:SGI), Mountain View, has...

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• One cool machine: for SGI, developing a super-fast supercomputer was easy. The trick was to keep it cool. Here's how they did it.(Silicon Graphics)(Cover Story)

  - 2005-02-07

  WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU package up to 256 Intel[R] Itanium[R] 2 processors into a single computer node? The answer is the architecture for one of the fastest supercomputers in the world--and one heck of a thermal-management challenge. WHAT DO YOU...

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