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RSS sgiPro-Linux group snaps up Microsoft patents
News Microsoft said the patents were indeed ones that it had acquired several years ago in a deal with SGI. A pro-open-source group said on Tuesday it has acquired 22 patents recently sold by Microsoft - patents that the... [09 Sep 2009]
Roadrunner supercomputer keeps ahead of the race
News Pleiades, SGI, NASA Ames Research Center (487.01 teraflop/s) Despite the Jaguar nipping at its heels, Roadrunner continues to speed past the supercomputing pack. That's according to the twice yearly Top500 list of the... [23 Jun 2009]
Think Ecological: IT Sustainability Insights and Imperatives
White Paper Discover new perspectives from hundreds of IT professionals, through a series of online surveys combined with executive dialogs and third party supporting research. The Think Eco-Logical - IT Sustainability Insights and Imperatives... [22 May 2009]
Tech driving McLaren's hunt for F1 wins
News The team's supercomputing technology is provided by SGI on the hardware side and CD-adapco for the CFD software. McLaren Racing, the company behind current Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton's Vodafone McLaren... [16 Apr 2009]
Understanding the Linux 2.6.8.1 CPU Scheduler
White Paper Linux kernel development is relatively fast-paced given the size and complexity of the code base. This is because of its widespread adoption by hobbyists, home users, businesses (including many Fortune 500 companies), and educational... [01 Apr 2009]
Intel Multi-Core Performance Accelerates Nanoscience Research
White Paper The CNM team built a 1,152-core high-performance computing cluster with Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors plus motherboards developed by Intel, Supermicro, and SGI, delivering the extreme performance required with low... [01 Jan 2009]
Photos: The world's fastest supercomputers revealed
Photo Weighing in at 487 teraflops the SGI Altix ICE system, seen here, is used to simulate and model future space missions. The colossi of computing took their places on the supercomputing podium today. Able to slice through... [17 Nov 2008]
University of Utah's SCI Institute Protects and Preserves Research Data With Atempo Time Navigator
White Paper The Institute turned to SGI and Atempo to implement a comprehensive and high-performance data management infrastructure to meet its unique needs. The Institute decided to deploy Atempo Time Navigator based on the... [04 Nov 2008]
Fox Sports Australia Conquers Heterogeneous Data Protection With Atempo Time Navigator
White Paper Their IT department was also expanding into the production side of the business, with the company moving to a server based, nonlinear workflow, based on an archiving solution provided by Ardendo and SGI. [04 Nov 2008]
Accelerating File-Level Storage With NAS
White Paper The paper then identifies the pain points associated with current solutions, discusses the benefits of Network-Attached Storage (NAS), and focuses on SGI's line of InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS solutions and the benefits to... [22 Oct 2008]
Real-Time Capabilities for Linux SGI REACT Real-Time for Linux
White Paper This white paper describes the real-time capabilities provided by SGI REACT Real-Time for Linux software. REACT enables SGI Linux-based system platforms to deliver Hard Real-Time (HRT) capabilities... [01 Oct 2008]
Improving Scalability, Manageability, and Performance for Network-Attached Storage (NAS) Solutions
White Paper No one disputes the theoretical advantages of Network-Attached Storage (NAS) compared to direct-attached storage. The inefficiencies involved with multiple, separate data storage platforms can be greatly improved with an alternative NAS... [04 Aug 2008]
Leading HPC Vendor Eases Adoption for Customers, With New Windows-Based Offerings
White Paper For SGI, a leading High-Performance Computing (HPC) vendor, extending its server offerings to support the Windows operating system meant being able to satisfy a broader range of customers. SGI now offers... [03 Jul 2008]
Roadrunner runs away with supercomputing prize
News Rounding out the top 10 is Sun Microsystem's Ranger at number four, Cray's Jaguar at number five, SGI's Encanto at number seven, and SGI's Altix at number 10. Roadrunner has topped the Top500... [19 Jun 2008]
Extreme High Performance Computing or Why Microkernels Suck
White Paper One often wonders how well Linux scales. The suggestions frequently received say that Linux cannot scale because it is a monolithic operating system kernel. However, microkernels have never scaled well and Linux has been scaled up to... [12 Jun 2008]
