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SGI and MIMOS in High-Performance Computing (HPC) Deal to Drive Malaysian Research & Development (R&D)

SGI Altix 4700 Powered By 84 Intel Itanium 2 Processors Helps Position Malaysia As The Largest HPC User In ASEAN

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 18 January, 2007 — SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) and MIMOS Bhd, a leading Malaysian applied research organization under the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), today announce a strategic deal that will enhance the capacity and capability of the Malaysian research community who require HPC capacity-sharing.

The contract, worth nearly US$2 million over three years, sees SGI providing MIMOS with a supercomputing infrastructure built around SGI® Altix® 4700 , featuring 168-core (or 84 processors) Montecito Intel® Itanium® 2 processors, 84GB system memory and a 30TB high speed disk subsystem running Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) configuration.

SGI will work with MIMOS to deliver high-performance computing simulations, high compute data visualizations, and high-end storage services to research communities across the country using a grid computing environment.

This research grid will be open to Malaysian research organizations, institutions of higher learning and selected businesses. The HPC grid is expected to provide the Malaysian high tech research community with a low risk and highly effective throughput HPC solution to accelerate research discoveries done locally.

For MIMOS, this deal is part of the Malaysian Government's initiative to reduce the cost of investment in research and development (R&D) through the sharing of resources as outlined in the Ninth Malaysia Plan, set to run from 2006-2010.

"The discoveries made by R&D researchers using such advanced technology will become an integral element to drive the Malaysian economy towards higher productivity, and build on the national long-term objective to transform Malaysia into a leading knowledge-based economy," said Abdul Wahab Abdullah, MIMOS President & CEO.

The HPC grid system also positions Malaysia as one of the largest HPC users in the ASEAN region and MIMOS as the National Grid Computing hub for Malaysian researchers in frontier industries. Installed in October, the Altix 4700 supercomputer is the largest shared memory system in Malaysia, and one of the most powerful in the ASEAN region.

All Malaysian research organizations and businesses can apply to access the HPC grid facility. Among the organizations targeted include universities, research institutions, private and public research organizations, national labs and MIMOS internal research and development departments.

To access the supercomputing resources available at MIMOS, the research institutions and/or researchers can apply to MIMOS for the allocation of the resources. The supercomputing infrastructure is available to the Malaysian research community at MIMOS premises in Technology Park Malaysia, Bukit Jalil.

Bill Trestrail, SGI's Vice President Asia Pacific added: "We are working with MIMOS to further enhance the R&D capacity and capability among the Malaysian research community. This latest deal is testament to the high demand to turn Malaysia into a leading knowledge-based economy and we are certain that this technology will connect the local research community to the global research community."

Tech specs
SGI provided MIMOS with an Altix 4700 supercomputer, SGI InfiniteStorage SAN 300 storage solution, ILM Solution using DMF (Data Migration Facility) software, PBS Pro for GRID enablement and Intel Compilers & Development tools for its National Grid Computing Centre.

• Altix 4700 supercomputer: The Altix 4700 supercomputer incorporates the very technologies and features that will take HPC into the coming decade. The Altix 4700 tightly integrates standard implementations of Linux® from Novell with SGI's acclaimed visualization and new FPGA-based SGI® Reconfigurable Application Specific Computing (RASC™) technologies. Altix 4700 compute blades provide socket compatibility for today's fastest Intel® Itanium® 2 Dual Core processors and forthcoming² multi-core Itanium processors.
• SGI SAN 3000 Storage: Provides high-performance networked storage - a single SGI InfiniteStorage SAN delivers scalability and performance that NAS or SAN appliances simply can't touch
• Information Lifestyle Management (ILM) Solution using Date Migration Facility (DMF): An advanced ILM solution helping customers realise as much as sixty to ninety percent storage cost savings, as well as higher productivity and higher data protection

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ABOUT MIMOS
MIMOS is Malaysia's leading applied research organisation in Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs) aimed at growing globally competitive indigenous industries. MIMOS pursues exploratory and industry-driven applied research through multi-stakeholder smart partnerships with universities, research institutes, Government and industries with a focus on frontier technologies. MIMOS' applied research areas, based on real-world trends, are cyber space security, encryption systems, grid computing & multi-service networks, wireless broadband, MEMS/NEMS systems, advanced informatics, knowledge technology and micro energy systems.

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