SGI® Visual Supercomputing™ tightly integrates visualization with the compute and data management stages of high-performance computing (HPC) workflows. SGI demonstrated components of its Visual Supercomputing portfolio at Supercomputing 2007. The strategy is built on a quarter-century of visualization leadership and a first-hand understanding of the challenges faced by HPC users in fields such as computer-aided engineering, advanced scientific research, physical and life sciences, product design and rendering. Many of these users seek visualization that is integrated within a solution that enables them to analyze, store and visualize their data.
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Massive SGI Systems Join Top 500 List

The Top 500 list was announced at Supercomputing 2007. Just months after its introduction by SGI, several new clusters incorporating the new SGI® Altix® ICE blade platform appeared prominently on the Top 500's latest ranking of the most powerful computers on Earth.
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SGI® InfiniteStorage NEXIS 9000 NAS Enables Consolidation and Performance for Shared Storage Assets

SGI unveiled SGI® InfiniteStorage NEXIS 9000 NAS, a new platform for extracting high performance from file-based storage and gaining in storage consolidation efficiencies. Efforts made by SGI to develop new storage technologies have pushed scalability, file directory size, and performance to levels needed to support accelerating data growth related to business, scientific, and digital media applications.
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SGI Sets Another Record in Oracle E-Business Suite Benchmark Tests

Driven by New Dual-Core Intel Itanium Processor 9100 Series, SGI Altix 450 Server Smashes Oracle Benchmark Records. At the world's largest gathering of Oracle software users, SGI announced its SGI® Altix® platform has again broken the performance and scalability record for real-world, multi-tier applications running Oracle® Database 10g Release 2.
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SGI Builds World's Largest FPGA Supercomputer, Boosts Nucleotide Query Performance by More Than 900 Times Over 68-Node Cluster

SGI announced it built the world's largest Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) supercomputer configuration, then ran a broadly used bioinformatics application more than 900 times faster than the same application would run on a traditional cluster.
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SGI Announces New Global Sales Leadership

Solectron's Douglas Britt Joins SGI as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Britt joins SGI as its new senior vice president of worldwide sales after seven years in senior sales and account services roles at Solectron, a leading global provider of electronics manufacturing services and integrated supply chain solutions.
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SGI Reports First Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 Results

SGI Achieves 43 Percent Bookings Growth

First quarter FY08 highlights include: grew bookings more than 40% over the fourth quarter of fiscal 2007 with key wins in target growth areas; continued stability in pro forma results; achieved its goals for revenue, expenses and cash.
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