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SGI Announces New CEO
Renowned HPC Veteran Robert H.  "Bo" Ewald returned to SGI as Chief Executive Officer April 9. Bo replaced Dennis McKenna who served as SGI's Chief Executive Officer since January 31, 2006. In addition to his role as CEO, Bo will serve on SGI's Board of Directors.
"Bo Ewald brings the right skill set to lead SGI as we move from a focus on restructuring and stabilization to a focus on growth and profitability," said Kevin Katari, SGI's Chairman of the Board and a Managing Member of Watershed Asset Management, LLC. "Bo's leadership skills and extensive experience in a range of high-performance computing and storage markets make him the right CEO to lead SGI to success, not only in the traditional technical and scientific HPC market, but also in new enterprise HPC segments where SGI's technologies have significant potential," added Mr. Katari.
"I'm very pleased to be returning to SGI," said Bo Ewald. "This is a great company steeped with accomplishment and history, highly innovative products, extremely highly skilled and dedicated employees, and a solid and loyal customer base. The SGI team has done a tremendous job over the past year, restructuring the company and refocusing its approach to the business. I'm excited about the opportunity to lead SGI and build on the momentum to grow the business by helping our customers be successful."
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SGIUG 2007 Technical Conference and Tutorials
Mark your calendar for the SGIUG Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 21-25, 2007. The 2007 SGIUG conference is a MUST for anyone using SGI products. The conference includes tutorials, technical presentations, workshops, reports from SGI Executives and information you will not find elsewhere. 
For more information on the conference, accommodations, pricing, or to register for this unique event, visit the conference website.
Registration for this year's event is still open and offered at US$675.
Questions? Please email info@sgiug.org
Forecasting Today's Weather and 100 Years Into the Future at KNMI
KNMI  (the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute), based in De Bilt, Holland, is the Dutch counterpart of the UK Meteorological Office. Its primary activity is the provision of weather forecast data on an hourly basis to government agencies, commercial weather bureaus, broadcasters and the media; and the Institute also has a very strong research group specializing in climate research and seismology.
"We're now producing a lot more data—around 20x as much each time we run one of our models. This has meant an enormous increase in the number of compute cycles we need to generate the data within a limited timeframe, because the one thing that hasn't changed is that we still need the results within the hour!" - Rene van Lier, Project Manager, KNMI
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BioTeam Names SGI, Mitrionics and Accelerated Blast in Top Ten Bio-It Trends for 2007
SGI® Altix® family servers with SGI® RASC™ RC100 computation blades, and Mitrionics™, Inc., developer of the Mitrion™ Virtual Processor and software-centric Mitrion-C programming language for FPGA Supercomputing acceleration, were named as one of the Top Ten BioIT Trends for 2007 that was published in the industry publication BioIT World. Compiled by the BioTeam, a consulting collective dedicated to delivering vendor-agnostic informatics solutions to the life sciences industry, Mitrionics and its close FPGA Supercomputing provider SGI were both named in the #5 Top BioIT Trend — "Reconfigurable Accelerator Boards (FPGAs).
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