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Hyundai Heavy Industry Selects SGI Altix Server to Improve Ship Building Design and Analysis SGI Altix Server Powered by Intel Itanium 2 Processors Reduces Processing Time from 15 Days to 2 Days or less SEOUL, South Korea and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Silicon Graphics Korea announced today that Hyundai Heavy Industry (HHI), the number one commercial ship builder in the world, with a12% industry market share, has deployed an SGI(R) Altix(R) 350 server with 8 Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors, to meet the computing power needed for building ships to safely deliver goods and products, including liquefied petroleum and gas products. Hyundai Heavy Industry has so far secured orders for 56 ships which amount to about 5.4 billion dollars in five months in 2005, including an order for eight oil container carriers and four LPG carriers from Iran and Qatar. As the new ship building orders and the total order backlog for HHI's shipbuilding division has increased, HHI decided to deploy the SGI Altix system to increase its productivity. The addition of the new server arms HHI with Altix systems with a total of thirty-two processors, including the 24-processor Altix server deployed in the mid 2004. According to HHI, the SGI Altix system is used for strength, durability and vibration structure analysis of large container vessels, very large crude carriers (VLCC), liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers. It is also being applied for coupled structure analysis considering "sloshing" impact load. Mr. Kwon, Jin Chil of Ship Building Division of Hyundai Heavy Industry said, "When LNG carriers transfer liquefied natural gas over a long distance, the liquefied natural gas strikes hard on the ship tank's wall. In order to analyze the sloshing impact load on the walls of the vessel, we needed very large scalable computing power. With the SGI Altix server, we have improved MSC.Dytran work process from 15 days to 2 days or less." Hyundai Heavy Industry's Altix purchase was based on a benchmark conducted by HHI of IBM, SUN, HP and SGI servers. The SGI Altix 350 server proved to have the best performance, delivering twice the performance of both the SUN Sunfire v6800 and IBM p670. More specifically, SGI Altix server recorded the lowest gap between its full load performance and its single load performance. For this test, the lower is better. The SGI Altix server family leverages SGI(R) NUMAflex(TM) architecture, which provides the ability for 512 processors to operate under a single system image under a super cluster environment. SGI NUMAlink interconnect with 12.8GB bandwidth per second, provides 50 times faster bandwidth, compared to Ethernet, and its latency is under 1 microsecond, which is the best in the IT industry. The SGI NUMAflex architecture and NUMAlink interconnect is an optimal solution for large scale calculations. Intel's 64-bit Itanium 2 processor based on EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction-set Computing) technology is ideal for applications requiring high processing power and large memory capacity. Through Hyundai Heavy Industry's first Altix deployment, Hyundai Heavy Industry has reduced the time of MSC.Dytran processing from 7-15 days to 2 days, and the time of MSC.Nastran processing from existing 8 hours to 10 minutes. SGI rapidly expands 64-bit IA server market to the technical customers, such as HKMC, Samsung Renault, Tata Daewoo, and Hyundai Heavy Industry. "In addition to performance, reliability and availability advantages, the Itanium 2 processor based platform will help enterprise customers maximize their return on investment with reduced operating costs, added scalability and availability. Intel Itanium 2 based platform is especially suitable for customers with mission critical applications and huge amounts of data to manage -- HHI is one such example of this." said HS Lee, country manager of Intel Korea. "We are especially pleased to work with Hyundai Heavy Industry, the world's leading ship builder. Altix was designed with the compute horsepower to solve large scale and complex calculations. Hyundai Heavy Industry's purchase of the Altix system will enhance and accelerate their new ship building process to help them achieve their business objectives," said PS Shim, Area General Manager of SGI Korea. Hyundai Heavy Industry Established in 1972, Hyundai Heavy Industry has grown to be the world's best ship building company. Based on its ship building technology, HHI provides ocean, plant, engine, other electronic system and construction equipment. HHI currently has a total of 25,000 employees. Its website address is http://www.hhi.co.kr/ SILICON GRAPHICS | The Source of Innovation and Discovery(TM) SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc. (NYSE:SGI), is a 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, providing technologies for homeland security and defense, 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. With offices worldwide, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and can be found on the Web at http://www.sgi.com/. NOTE: Silicon Graphics, SGI, Altix, the SGI cube and the SGI logo are registered trademarks and NUMAflex and The Source of Innovation and Discovery are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries worldwide. Intel and Itanium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. MEDIA CONTACT Marla Robinson SGI Corporate 256-864-3426 Megan Chung Silicon Graphics Korea 82-22-222-7320 82-16-713-2771 SGI PR HOTLINE 650-933-7777 DATASOURCE: SGI CONTACT: Marla Robinson of SGI Corporate, +1-256-864-3426, or , or Megan Chung of Silicon Graphics Korea, +82-22-222-7320, or +82-16-713-2771, or Web site: http://www.hhi.co.kr/ Web site: http://www.sgi.com/

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