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

NASA, Intel Corp., and SGI 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 capabilities for modeling and simulation at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California.

Achieving such a monumental increase in performance will help fulfill NASA's increasing need for additional computing capacity and will enable us to provide the computational performance and capacity needed for future missions," said Ames Director S. Pete Worden. "This additional computational performance is necessary to help us achieve breakthrough scientific discoveries."
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NBA Expands Relationship with SGI On Groundbreaking Digital Media Management System

The National Basketball Association (NBA) and SGI announced a multiyear extension of their relationship to expand the league's groundbreaking digital workflow and media management system, the NBA Digital Media Management System.

After successfully unveiling the NBA Digital Media Management System (PDF) with SGI during the 2006-07 NBA season, the first-of-its-kind system in professional sports enabled the league to simultaneously ingest and archive footage from up to 14 NBA games, edit the archival content on the fly, provide full game broadcasts, clips and other NBA content to 214 countries worldwide.
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SGI User Group 2008 Conference—Early Bird Registration Extended!

Join us at the 6th Annual SGI User Group (SGIUG) Conference in Los Angeles, June 9-12, 2008.The conference will include tutorials, technical presentations, and workshops on topics such as visualization, media management, and storage. Conference highlights include a guest keynote presentation featuring the National Basketball Association (NBA) as well as reports from top SGI executives and engineers including Bo Ewald, SGI Chief Executive Officer. Early Bird Registration is now available until May 31, 2008 at $795. A $100 Savings. Contact the SGIUG via email at info@sgiug.org.
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Join SGI in Booth D23-D26, June 17-20 at ISC—Europe's Premier High-Performance Computing Event in Dresden, Germany

SGI Featured Sessions:

·	Hot Seat: “A new era in High Performance Computing”—Bill Mannel, Director of Systems Product Marketing
·	Birds-of-a-Feather: “Remote Visualization Needs for the Future”—Thomas Reed, Visualization Solutions Manager
·	Automotive: “Top 20 Auto—Overview of HPC Trends in Automotive" —Christian Tanasescu, Director of Engineering
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SGI Remarketed Products—Environmental Friendly

Since 1989, SGI has had an environmentally conscious Remarketed Products Program. Through this program, SGI is doing its part to minimize waste and extend the useful life of SGI products and equipment. We recycle available materials from trade-in programs, lease returns, and excess demo, and then fully refurbish the equipment into dependable, cost-effective systems for customers.
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SGI Reports Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 Results

Order Momentum Continues; Strong Q4 Start with Significant Wins
"We have made great strides in continuing to execute on our strategy this quarter," said Bo Ewald, SGI Chief Executive Officer.
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