SGI® Altix® Customer Successes


SGI at AFRL
Originally developed at MIT on a Linux cluster, Star-P was commercialized by ISC and SGI on the SGI Altix platform. The AFRL team provided a perfect test case for the new solution. [Full Story]


Imitation of Life
For the first time, researchers simulated a complete, functioning organism at the atomic level. How NCSA's SGI Altix system helped them make history. [Full Story]


One Giant Leap
How NASA, SGI and Intel managed to build and deploy history's most powerful supercomputer in 15 blistering weeks. [Full Story]


Wichita State University's HPC Center
The HPC Center at Wichtia State University is combining capacity and capability with an SGI® Altix® Hybrid Cluster for Linux®. [Full Story] (PDF 84K)


University of Minnesota: Accelerating Scientific Research with an SGI® Altix® 350 Cluster
The Supercomputing Institute at the University of Minnesota Deploys a 128 Processor Altix 350 Cluster to Accelerate Scientific Research. [Full Story] (PDF 251K)


Using SGI Altix to Detect the Origins of the Milky Way
Students at the University of Washington unravel mysteries of our galaxies leveraging the global shared memory and scalability of an SGI Altix 3000 system. [Full Story] (PDF 297K)


Penguins Can Fly: New SGI Altix 350 - Faster, Less Expensive, Linux
Overview of the Altix 350 and benefits - best in class price, best-in-class performance, best-in-class open standards. [Full Story]