Purpose-Built for HPC
SGI Altix ICE Merges Price/Performance, Reliability and Manageability - All in a Dense, Energy-Smart Blade Platform Made for Today's Space-Constrained Data Centers.

Things have gotten pretty cool around SGI these days. That's thanks in part to the newly unveiled SGI Altix ICE, a next-generation platform that brings all the advantages of the company's expertise in high-performance computing (HPC) to a tightly integrated, cool-running blade solution. 

SGI designed the new platform to close the growing gap between performance and user productivity — a problem that hits HPC environments where they live. "e repeatedly hear from our customers that first-generation clusters haven't delivered the productivity that their performance potential suggested was possible," notes SGI CEO Robert "Bo" Ewald. "This has created an increasing gap between peak performance and actual productivity."

But Ewald says the challenges in HPC environments don't end there. "Those same organizations are struggling to keep pace with the complexities of using, supporting, powering and cooling these systems."
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SGI Technology Powers L'Ecole Gobelins Final Push for 31st Annual Annecy International Animation Festival

To render millions of high-definition image files in time for opening night festivities of the famed Annecy 2007 International Animation Festival, in Annecy, France, Gobelins, l'école de l'image ("school of the image"), utilized a powerful combination of servers, cluster management software and render management software from SGI and SGI partners.

Introduced by SGI at NAB 2007 as a high-performance package for media production and other rendering application segments, this is the first installation of SGI® Altix® XE cluster systems based on Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5000 processors, running Microsoft® Windows® Compute Cluster Server (CCS) 2003, and PipelineFX Qube!™ render farm management software from SGI and partners.
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SGI Joins BioIT Alliance to Help Advance Scientific Discovery

To spearhead new ways of sharing complex data in the bioinformatics market, SGI today announced that the company has joined the BioIT Alliance, a group of organizations working together to realize the potential of personalized medicine. The Alliance unites the pharmaceutical, biotech, hardware, and software industries to explore new ways to share complex biomedical data and collaborate among multi-disciplinary teams to speed the pace of discovery in the life sciences.
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SGI Named a Prime Contract holder for Seven-Year NASA Purchasing Program

Company Continues To Supply NASA and Other U.S. Agencies Via Major Procurement Program To Run Through 2014

SGI announced that the company has again been named a prime contract holder for the latest U.S. Government IT purchasing program administered by NASA. Under the seven-year NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWP) IV Program, every product SGI sells is available to NASA and other U.S. Government agencies at prices published on the SEWP IV schedule.
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