Broadcast Engineering's Engineering Excellence Awards (presented NAB 2008)

• NBA Entertainment won in the Post & Network Production Facilities category for their SGI-integrated all digital, centralized live media production and asset management facility
• National Geographic Digital Motion (the archive and stock footage licensing agent for all National Geographic Television film and video) won in the New Studio Technology — Non-broadcast category. National Geograph completely transformed their analog video archive and licensing business into a streamlined digital workflow with SGI technology.

Supercomputing 2007 (SC07) Cluster Challenge Winner
A team from Canada's University of Alberta used a 64-core, 144GB SGI® Altix® XE310 cluster to win the first-ever Cluster Challenge. [more]

HPCWire's Most Innovative HPC Cluster Solution for 2007
HPCwire, the leading source for global news and information covering the ecosystem of high productivity computing, announced that its readers had selected SGI Altix as the Most Innovative HPC Cluster Solution for 2007.

Supercomputing Online's Editors' Choice Award
Winners for the 2007 Product of the Year: SGI Altix ICE [more]

Bio-IT World Announces 2005 Best Practices Award Winners
June 29, 2005 | At a ceremony at the National Press Club, Bio-IT World announced six Grand Prize winners in its third annual Best Practices Awards program.

With the help of breakthrough visualization technologies from Silicon Graphics the National Cancer Institute (NCI), has been named one of six Grand Prize winners of Bio-IT World magazine's third annual Best Practices Awards.

NCI and SGI Bio-IT World award program submission entitled, "Confocal Microscopy Data Analysis: A Real-Time Image Analysis and Visualization Solution" presents results from a research project executed by SGI in collaboration with the NCI's Advanced Biomedical Computing Center (ABCC). [more]

SGI receives Two of Broadcast Engineering's Excellence Awards at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2004 Convention
Recently at the 2004 National Association of Broadcasters Conference in Las Vegas, SGI was awarded two prestigious awards for innovative broadcast installations in the U.S. and Germany.

Georgia Public Broadcasting and Südwestrundfunk (SWR, Southwestern Broadcasting) in Germany, were both awarded first place Broadcast Engineering's Excellence Awards in their respective areas. Georgia Public Broadcasting took first place in the "New Studio Technology-Station" category, and SWR took first place in the "News Room-Technology-Station" category. These awards recognize companies who use leading edge design and systems integration. Winners were decided by readers of the publication. Both companies utilize the SGI™ Media Server as well as SGI® InfiniteStorage end-to-end solutions.

Material eXchange Format (MXF) Award Presented to SGI Broadcast Installation at the 2004 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Convention
At the 2004 NAB convention in Las Vegas, Premier Media Group, in association with SGI, received the MXF award for "outstanding commitment to the implementation of MXF" (Material eXchange Format). MXF technology is widely recognized because it enables broadcasters to introduce AV/IT technology into their businesses at an accelerated pace.

SGI's technology was chosen by Premier Media Group, operators of FOX SPORTS ONE, to meet their need for a state-of-the-art, complete digital infrastructure that would allow the company to do end-to-end D10 and MXF based broadcast operations. Premier is based out of Sydney Australia and has been using SGI technology as a solution to bottlenecking and typical restrictions of tape-based ingest flow. The MXF award was one of three awards given to SGI broadcast installations at this years NAB conference.

Eight SGI Customers Named as 2003 Computerworld Honors Laureates; Four Selected as Finalists for the 2003 Computerworld Honors Program Awards
SGI nominated eight prestigious customers for the annual Computerworld Honors Program Awards earlier this year. Members of the Computerworld Honors Chairmen's Committee identify those organizations whose use of information technology has been especially noteworthy for the originality of its conception, the breadth of its vision, and the significance of its benefit to society. These organizations are asked to contribute a case study to the collection. The submitted case studies are available on Computerworld's Web site.

Honored at a laureate medal ceremony in San Francisco, the eight stellar SGI customers include: NASA Ames Research Center. EFILM, Proctor & Gamble Company, University of Delaware Biotechnology Institute, Scientific Computing and Imaging at the University of Utah, Ford Motor Company, France Télévisions Publicité, and the University of Manchester (U.K.).

A distinguished panel of judges selects five worldwide finalists from all the laureates submitted in 10 categories. In June, in Washington, D.C., the program honored these finalists. Four of the eight nominated SGI customers were selected as finalists in the following categories: NASA Ames, government; Ford Motor Company, manufacturing; France Télévisions Publicité, media; University of Manchester, medicine/sciences. [more]

SGI customer France Télévisions Publicité (FTP) wins a DigitalTV*Television Broadcast Editors' Pick of Show Award at NAB 2003
SGI customer France Télévisions Publicité (FTP) won a DigitalTV*Television Broadcast Editors' Pick of Show Award at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2003 convention held in April in Las Vegas.

FTP, the advertising production subsidiary of national broadcaster France Télévision, chose SGI to design and implement a unique and impressive centralcasting vision that fundamentally changes the methodology of television advertising placement, broadcast, and tracking. FTP received the award for their commercial air-time sales software, France Espace, which was created using SGI® systems. FTP launched France Espace in the SGI booth at NAB. The DigitalTV*Television Broadcast Editors' Pick of Show awards are presented in recognition of innovative achievement in the advancement of the science, art, and business of television.

Computerworld Smithsonian Award (CWSA) 1997
Ten top innovations recognized by Computerworld magazine and the Smithsonian Institution were accomplished on systems from SGI. The Computerworld Smithsonian Award (CWSA) is a premier honor in the information technology industry recognizing positive change in society made possible through applications of computer technology. Nominees are judged in 10 categories from science to manufacturing. SGI and Cray customers constitute the largest number of nominees by a computer vendor including:

Fred Hausheer, M.D., founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals, Inc., of San Antonio, was named winner of the SGI and Cray Information Technology Leadership Award for Breakthrough Science. This award, sponsored by SGI as a separate category in the Computerworld Smithsonian Award program, recognizes unique and important uses of supercomputing. BioNumerik has been named a finalist in the medicine category of this year's overall program.

The EPA's Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, was recognized for supercomputer simulations of the human lung, and the University of Oklahoma's Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS) and PSC were recognized for severe storm forecasting. The EPA's work, winner in the medicine category, simulates and visualizes the behavior of substances inhaled by children, allowing toxicologists to accurately assess negative effects of air pollution on children's developing lungs.