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SGI Announces Key Sales Wins for Second Quarter MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Silicon Graphics (NYSE:SGI) recently completed the second quarter of its fiscal year 2005, which included dynamic growth in the SGI(R) Altix(R) server business, a successful launch of the Silicon Graphics Prism(TM) system into the visualization market, key sales wins across target markets, and growth in the Professional Services business with innovation solutions. In addition, SGI Altix servers, SGI(R) InfiniteStorage solutions and Silicon Graphics Prism visualization system captured a record eight HPCwire Innovation Awards at the Supercomputing 2004 Conference-five coveted Editor's Choice Awards and three Readers Choice Awards. Several significant wins were announced during the second quarter including: -- NASA selected SGI to build the 10,240-processor Columbia supercomputer, which is the world's fastest system to be based on industry standard Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors and the Linux(R) operating system (OS). SGI delivered the supercomputer, comprised of 20 512-processor SGI Altix systems, to the NASA Ames Research Center and made it fully available to scientists nationwide in fewer than 15 weeks. Columbia seized the second position in the latest roster of the world's Top 500 supercomputers and was the talk of the show at Supercomputing 2004. Columbia won Most Innovative Implementation and Best Collaboration with Government honors in the 2004 HPCwire Innovation Awards presented at the show. -- Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) selected an SGI Altix supercomputer as its new core computation system to assist in developing leading energy systems and to meet the needs of scientific computation in nuclear energy research and development. The new SGI Altix system, which is scheduled to be operational at the end of March, 2005 is based on 2,048 Intel Itanium 2 processors, the Linux operating environment and more than 13TB of memory. -- The Leibniz Rechenzentrum Computing Center (LRZ) at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities selected SGI Altix and SGI InfiniteStorage to power Germany's new national supercomputing system. The new system, which eventually will incorporate 3,328 dual-core Intel Itanium 2 processors, will be capable of generating 69 trillion calculations per second of performance, effectively boosting the computing capacity at LRZ by 30-fold. LRZ will also deploy a 660-terabyte SGI InfiniteStorage solution to accommodate its rapidly growing stockpile of scientific of data. In early 2006, SGI will begin installation of the SGI Altix system, which will feature 40 terabytes of globally addressable memory. The system will be upgraded to its final configuration in 2007. New products introduced in the second quarter were the SGI(R) Altix 3700 Bx2 supercomputer, Silicon Graphics Prism, as well as enhancements to SGI InfiniteStorage Data Migration Facility, all of which are targeted at technical and creative customers in SGI's core markets. High Performance Systems -- Servers and Storage Introduced during the second quarter, the SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 system delivers twice the bandwidth and processor density of the previous flagship Altix system. The new Altix model makes it easier for users to cost-effectively deploy the world's most powerful system based on the industry-standard Linux OS and Intel Itanium 2 processors-delivering more computing power while requiring less space. Among the SGI Altix High Performance Systems wins this quarter were: -- BG Exploration & Production India Limited (BGEPIL), which is a business of BG India, has been active in India's oil and gas sector for more than 10 years and is part of the BG Group-a leading international energy company. The new Altix system, equipped with ten processors, 20GB of memory and almost half a terabyte of local disk capacity, will be used to simulate gas deposits miles below the earth's surface, thereby providing BGEPIL timely access to data needed for its oil exploration and production planning. The system will also allow BGEPIL to reduce simulation-processing time and optimize decisions related to drilling and acquisition of assets within new areas. -- Catalan Supercomputing Center (CESCA) was facing a host of demanding compute and storage requirements when it selected SGI over competing solutions from HP and Sun to drive advanced chemistry, physics, environmental science, and bioinformatics applications. CESCA purchased an 80-processor Altix system with 240GB of globally addressable memory and an SGI InfiniteStorage solution totaling 5.1TB. The need for a large single system image implementation, support for a 64-bit Linux environment, and an integrated storage solution extensive enough to accommodate widespread redundancy, even for temporary files, drove the selection of SGI over its competitors. -- Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), an arm of the Space Science & Engineering Center at University of Wisconsin-Madison, selected an SGI Altix system to run highly sophisticated weather simulations. CIMSS will use the system to produce test datasets to support the design of future hyperspectral satellite instruments. Funded by a U.S. Navy Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grant, CIMSS purchased the 24-processor SGI Altix system and 192GB of memory which currently runs both Mesoscale Model version 5 (MM5) and the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF). WRF is a new weather model that is rapidly being adopted by the weather and atmospheric research community. -- Hyundai Motor Company, the number one motor company in Korea, purchased four SGI Altix servers and an SGI InfiniteStorage solution. These new servers, powered by a total of 148 Intel Itanium 2 processors and running Red Hat(R) Enterprise Linux operating system, were installed in November and will be used for full car analysis, engine analysis, drag test and the prediction of airborne noise. By boosting its computing capacity with the new servers Hyundai Motor Company will be equipped with 888 Gflops computing power, expecting to improve its CAE elapsed time significantly, compared to its previous computing performance. -- Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Ludwig-Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich, Germany, purchased a 48-processor SGI Altix system outfitted with 64GB of memory. LMU will deploy the new system at its observatory for use in gravity interaction analysis. LMU selected the Altix system over traditional Opteron(R) and Itanium 2 based cluster solutions because of the Altix system's superior performance on key applications. -- INTEVEP, a Venezuelan-based center that specializes in research, development, engineering and technical services in the oil and petrochemical industries, purchased a 64-processor SGI Altix system with 144GB of memory. With an open source-based system as a key criterion, INTEVEP selected Altix due to the SGI system's easier programming model and shared-memory architecture. -- Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich, Germany purchased a 64-processor Altix system with 128GB of memory and a 2TB SGI InfiniteStorage data storage and management solution. The Institute selected the SGI system because superior price/performance made SGI technology an ideal foundation for the next-generation, 69 TeraFLOP German National Supercomputer HLRB-II, to be installed at LRZ, a national computer center also located in Munich that serves as a resource to researchers nationwide. -- Michigan State University selected SGI as the cornerstone of its new research computing facility. Michigan State purchased a 64-processor SGI Altix system with 256GB of globally addressable memory. The new system will drive such complex computational chemistry and physics applications as GAMES and Fluent. -- MTU Aero Engines, Germany's leading aircraft engine manufacturer, purchased three, 16-processor SGI Altix servers to drive a variety of high performance computing applications for manufacturing and aerospace design, including NASTRAN, Abaqus and Trace. -- New York University's (NYU) Theoretical Division in the Department of Chemistry selected an SGI Altix system with 96 Intel Itanium 2 processors and 192 GB of memory in an effort to accelerate discoveries in theoretical/computational chemistry. NYU also upgraded its existing mid-range Altix system to create a high-performance Altix cluster via an InfiniBand interconnect. The cluster will be served by a 1/2 TB of SGI InfiniteStorage solution. In selecting SGI over competing solutions from IBM, NYU cited the need for access to large global-shared memory, a flexible system capable of world-class performance on a variety of applications, and a close and productive relationship with SGI. NYU received its funding for the purchase from the National Science Foundation. -- Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery AB (SIT) acquired a 48-processor SGI Altix system and a 2.3-terabyte SGI InfiniteStorage solution. SIT will use the Altix system primarily for finite element method structural analysis and CFD analysis, while managing and accessing increasingly large data sets with the SGI InfiniteStorage solution. Key factors in the sale were leading price/performance and reliability of the SGI InfiniteStorage solution as well as the Altix system's global shared-memory architecture, scalability, and ability to serve as a platform for multiple high performance computing (HPC) codes. -- Universidad Complutense de Madrid purchased a 64-processor Altix system with 128GB of memory and 1.5TB of storage. The system, which the university deployed as a compute server for chemistry and bioinformatics applications, was selected over systems from Sun and HP for its shared-memory architecture and its commitment to an open-source Linux environment and industry-standard technologies. -- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill purchased a high-density, 128-processor Altix system with 512GB of memory, an eight-processor mid-range Altix server, and a 25TB SGI InfiniteStorage solution. Combined, the new SGI solutions will enable UNC-Chapel Hill researchers and students to solve groundbreaking scientific applications using Accelerys(R) applications. With a commitment to open source solutions, a requirement for true HPC performance, and the need to accelerate workflow by efficiently managing massive data sets, the university selected the SGI products for their performance leadership and support for industry standard technologies. -- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute purchased three SGI Altix systems for genomic analysis. Selected because of the Altix system's global shared-memory architecture, open-source Linux environment, and industry-standard Intel Itanium 2 processors, the Altix systems will form a core part of Sanger's genomics laboratory. Sanger purchased two, four-processor systems, each equipped with 16GB of globally addressable memory, and a four-processor Altix server with 192GB of global shared-memory. Visualization Systems -- Silicon Graphics Prism Leveraging the success of its Altix family of servers, SGI launched Silicon Graphics Prism, the world's most powerful and flexible Linux OS-based visual computer product line. By combining standards-based Intel Itanium 2 processors, the Linux operating environment, and its world renowned advanced graphics technology, SGI has created a system that is uniquely suited to addressing the world's most demanding visual computing problems-all at price points that make it accessible to a wider group of users. Scaling up to 16 graphics pipelines and 256 processors, the Silicon Graphics Prism family offers many times the visualization capability of any currently available computing system. Among the Silicon Graphics Prism orders this quarter were: -- German Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute (BAW), the central technical and scientific governmental agency of the German Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing and the German Federal Waterways and Shipping Administration, provides consultancy services for the development and construction, operation and maintenance of federal waterways. BAW purchased a Silicon Graphics Prism visualization system to efficiently analyze the growing amount of complexity of its CFD simulation results and to persuasively present 3D models to larger customer audiences as problem sizes continue to increase. SGI won the competitive bid due to the leading performance, scalability and shared memory capabilities of the Silicon Graphics Prism system. BAW also purchased a CXFS(TM) shared filesystem licence to integrate Silicon Graphics Prism into a SAN environment comprising SGI InfiniteStorage systems. -- Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, and Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario continued to upgrade the Northern Ontario Medical School by adding more SGI visualization, server and storage solutions to immediately expand real-time medical visualization and remote medical education. The new Silicon Graphics Prism and storage solutions will also allow the universities to jointly introduce students to multidisciplinary interaction in fields such as medicine, remote education, virtual classroom teacher training, and virtual testing and training in psychology. Anticipating the real-world technologies their graduates will encounter, the universities will also be teaching students to harness state-of-the-art SGI technology for forestry science research and planning and assessment-of-impact mining excavation studies. Funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Innovation Trust secured an 8-processor Silicon Graphics Prism with 4 graphics pipes and 16GB memory for Laurentian University and an 8-processor Silicon Graphics(R) Onyx4(TM) visualization system with 4 graphics pipes and 16GB memory for Lakehead campus' Virtual Reality Lab. The purchase also includes SGI(R) OpenGL Vizserver(TM) collaborative software, and SGI InfiniteStorage-all which will be real-time accessible from both the Lakehead and Laurentian campuses and by medical interns in the field. -- Landmark Graphics, a wholly owned business unit of Halliburton, selected Silicon Graphics Prism to create the world's fastest and largest advanced visualization computer system in the oil and gas exploration field. Landmark turned to SGI as the only company that could deliver the single shared memory architecture that would not only support but help redefine what it means to work with large seismic data volumes. Landmark, working with SGI and Intel, will soon offer its global clients real-time, 3D interactivity at the speed of thought and will enable them to run huge regional surveys to explore very deep offshore blocks, and plan well drilling much more accurately than ever before because they will see all of their data at one time in a 3D environment where they can physically go in and interactively pick the optimal well path. Using a 64-processor Silicon Graphics Prism system with 8 graphics pipes and 640GB of memory, Landmark's GeoProbe(R) application will enable customers to visualize seismic data sets at close to a terabyte in size. With the reduced cost of the SGI open architecture and the high performance increase in capabilities, Landmark will be creating a completely new standard for large seismic data visualization in the energy industry. -- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has added 6.5 teraflops of computing power to its machine room with the installation of an SGI Altix shared-memory, symmetric multi-processor (SMP) computing system, Silicon Graphics Prism visualization capability, and SGI InfiniteStorage technology. The SGI Altix system that NCSA named Cobalt, is the largest shared memory machine in the National Science Foundation system and the largest SMP system to be part of the TeraGrid network. Cobalt consists of 1,024 Intel Itanium 2 processors running the Linux operating system, 3TB of globally accessible memory, 8 Silicon Graphics Prism systems, and 370TB of SGI InfiniteStorage that serve as a shared file system, accessible by the other high-performance computing resources at NCSA. Service Offerings Developing solutions for SGI customers is the focus of the service organization and often includes full project management and implementation of all components, applications software and required third party hardware. One of the projects completed in the second quarter was: -- Beijing Planetarium contracted SGI to build a digital planetarium solution that would represent a paradigm shift in how planetariums can become destination spots to educate and entertain visitors. In the newly opened SGI(R) Digital Space Theatre, visitors will see spectacular high-contrast color images including more than 37,000 stars, 30,000 galaxies, constellations, nebulae, planets, spacecraft, and deep space objects. The world's first digital all-dome laser-projected real-time planetarium is powered by a Zeiss All Dome Laser Image Projection system driven by a 24-processor SGI Onyx visualization system with 12GB RAM and six SGI(R) InfiniteReality4(TM) graphic pipes, each with 1GB of dedicated texture memory. An additional 3-pipe Onyx system with InfiniteReality3(TM) graphics is installed in the dome for show development and pre-show presentations. SGI also provided 580GB of SGI(R) InfiniteStorage systems, enough to run two playback and two real-time shows. SGI Professional Services specially created the Digital Universe application that can be used to run real-time shows and also create new shows. Additional solutions created and delivered include providing broadcasters with digital IT infrastructures. SGI has architected and integrated solutions in enabling the move from analog to digital infrastructures. This provides a more efficient and cost-effective method allowing for the ingestion, sharing and storage of content within and between facilities. SILICON GRAPHICS | The Source of Innovation and Discovery(TM) SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc., is the world's leader in high-performance computing, visualization and storage. SGI's vision is to provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the 21st century. Whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil more efficiently, studying global climate or enabling the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, SGI is dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for scientific, engineering and creative users. 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