University of Leicester
The University of Leicester has selected a solution based on a combination of SGI, Engenio, and ADIC technologies to store data captured by the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) Consortium project, a collaborative venture involving a number of UK universities.
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The University of Strathclyde
Strathclyde University pushes beyond physics with Altix and InfiniteStorage.
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SARA Computing and Networking Services
SARA has responded to explosive data growth by dramatically expanding its storage resources relying on SGI technologies and solutions.
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Desert Research Institute
Making accurate forecasts for agricultural burning and wildland fire is a very critical issue in the western U.S. Altix® and SGI® InfiniteStorage systems are helping meteorologists, scientists, managers, and fire specialists visually predict fire weather conditions for up to 72 hours.
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Dalhousie University
Dalhousie’s researchers in its Physics and Atmospheric Science department are immersed in solving intense computational problems involving global pollution studies. They require the speed and expandability of SGI high performance compute (HPC) power and storage, and agree that the SGI Altix computers turned out to be the best choice for the large data sets they run.
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Nasa's Columbia Project
How NASA, SGI and Intel managed to build and deploy history's most powerful supercomputer in 15 blistering weeks.
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SGI Data Lifecycle Management at Nasa Ames
SGI Data Lifecycle Management (DLM) at Nasa Ames provides efficient, cost-effective storage storage solution for massive data.
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The University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
The Supercomputing Institute at the University of Minnesota deploys a 128-processor SGI® Altix® 350 cluster to accelerate scientific research.
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The University of Washington: Using SGI® Altix® to Detect the Origins of the Milky Way
With the astronomical models generating massive data sets in excess of 10GB, the University of Washington’s Department of Astronomy knew it required a system with a low-latency, high-bandwidth architecture capable of addressing huge amounts of data and moving it quickly into and out of the system. The Altix 3000 system was an ideal fit.
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Charting the Oceanic Future at NASA
Just weeks after attaining record levels of sustained performance and scalability on a 256-processor global
shared-memory SGI® Altix® 3000 system, the team at NASA Ames doubled the size of its Altix - achieving 512
processors in a single image.
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UNLV's National Supercomputing Center
By creating a SAN with the SGI® InfiniteStorage Shared File System and CXFS™, the NSCEE at UNLV greatly reduced file access times, enhanced workflow, reduced administration costs, resulting in faster project turnaround.
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Queensland Parallel Supercomputer Foundation: Shared SGI® Systems Power Research Statewide
QPSF resources at the University of Queensland include a wide range of SGI computing systems, all of which are part of its SGI storage area network.
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University of Utah's SCI Institute
Much of the SCI Institute's work has been aimed at developing technology that enables engineers and scientists to visualize extremely large data sets. The shared-memory architecture of SGI is a powerful environment for the Institute's ray-tracing software.
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Stephen Hawking and the CosmoGrid
In their study of the origins of the universe, UK cosmologists at widely separate locations are now able to share compute and visualization resources through the central Cambridge facility.
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City University of Hong Kong: Reliable Power for Immersive Creativity
When City University of Hong Kong moved into studies of immersive environments with its installation of an SGI® Onyx® family visualization supercomputer, it made sure that the creativity it enabled would be protected by an uninterruptible power system.
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UCLA Gets Immersed in the Visual Power of SGI® Reality Center® Technology
The Visualization Portal uses the latest SGI Reality Center technology to drive the applications that immerse the various audiences
that pass through the facility's doors.
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