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Nemak Receives One Week ROI from Linux Networx Cluster System
White Paper Nemak, a producer of aluminum cast automotive parts, needed a solution that could simulate mold designs faster and with more accuracy than its SGI Origin 2000 supercomputer. Nemak's casting simulations took 10.1 days (242.4 hours) to run on their... [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, the world's fastest supercomputer, can perform one thousand trillion... [19 Jun 2008]
Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power
News Working with Intel and supercomputing specialist SGI, the Advanced Supercomputing facility at Nasa's Ames research centre in California will be able to deal with increasingly complex modelling and simulation work. [09 May 2008]
Queensland Parallel Supercomputer Foundation: Shared SGI Systems Power Research Statewide
White Paper QPSF acquired a 64-processor SGI Origin 3400 shared-memory supercomputer with 64GB of memory - the first 600 MHz Origin system delivered anywhere. QPSF uses SGI Reality Center visualization, MIPS processor-based supercomputing, Intel processor... [10 Apr 2008]
Leibniz Computing Center Achieves 10x Faster Supercomputer Data Services With NetApp Solution
White Paper The challenge was to implement a storage solution to deliver project file services in a 4,096-CPU SGI Altix 4700 supercomputing environment. The Leibniz Computing Center provides IT services for Munich universities and for the Bavarian Academy of... [20 Jul 2007]
Novell Case Study: Leibniz Computing Centre
White Paper The Leibniz Rechenzentrum (Leibniz Computing Centre) operates a supercomputer for scientific research, based on the SGI Altix 4700 server platform and running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Founded in 1962, the Leibniz Rechenzentrum (LRZ) is based... [13 Apr 2007]
Comparing Linux Clusters for the Community Climate System Model
White Paper Specifically, the authors examine the execution time and scalability of the Community Atmospheric Model (CAM) and the Parallel Ocean Program (POP) on Linux clusters with Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors, using Dolphin, Myrinet, and Infiniband... [01 Apr 2007]
Ex-Hollywood high-flyer files for bankruptcy protection
News Before Bishop's arrival in 1999, then-CEO Rick Belluzzo also initiated a turnaround effort at SGI that included cutting 1,500 positions and selling off its Cray supercomputer unit. Silicon Graphics (SGI) announced on Monday that it has filed for... [09 May 2006]
Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center
White Paper Today, high resolution regional weather prediction modeling and storage requirements have risen dramatically and a 256-processor SGI Origin 3900 supercomputer was recently added to the SGI InfiniteStorage SAN to run these models at optimal speeds... [26 Jan 2005]
IBM wins fastest supercomputer competition
News There's a new contender on the horizon, though, a NASA system called Columbia that SGI is building with 10,240 Intel Itanium processors. IBM has claimed first place in a supercomputer speed competition with an expanded version of its Blue Gene/L... [30 Sep 2004]
5 years ago... SGI to sell Cray supercomputer unit
News SGI managed to sell off Cray by March 2000 to a small supercomputer maker called Tera Computer. These days Cray is fighting it out in the supercomputer market with the likes of IBM, Hewlett-Packard and former owner SGI. [12 Aug 2004]
Sun goes back to its high-performance roots
News Sun Microsystems has started promoting an effort to return to its high-performance computing roots, as it aims at the weakened SGI and the ascendant IBM. Part of Sun's effort is aimed at stealing customers away from SGI, which has been ailing... [28 Apr 2003]
SGI to unveil new supercomputer
News SGI is set to unveil a new supercomputer that packs far more computing power per square inch than competing machines, a breakthrough that will help the company compete in what the high-end computer maker calls a Renaissance in supercomputing. [11 Nov 2002]
The universe in a computer? It's not as silly as it sounds...
News Supercomputer vendor SGI has signed a deal with Cambridge University to set up a grid computing network with the power to model the history of the universe. It will use technology from Canadian firm Platform Computing as well as SGI and will link... [17 Jul 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Grid computing
Cheat Sheet SGI goes live with supercomputer http://www.silicon.com/a50720 Compaq gone fission for French supercomputer http://www.silicon.com/a51388 Sounds a bit like the leccy to me. You're right. It is a bit like the electricity grid. [11 Apr 2002]
