Dennis McKenna, the CEO of Silicon Graphics (OTC Bulletin Board: SGID), today unveiled his first major moves to achieve the goal of returning the company to
profitability. McKenna is taking decisive action implementing a new organizational structure that is based on a distributed and collaborative management model, with a philosophy to drive responsiveness, flexibility and accountability throughout the organization.
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The company responsible for those cool satellite images accessed by millions of Google Earth users said this week that it has almost completed an enormous upgrade to its internal IT infrastructure to increase production and support the launch of two more imagery satellites over the next two years.
…..DigitalGlobe has also added numerous servers over the past year, ranging from 40 small-to-midlevel enterprise servers from Sun Microsystems (V210 through V1280) to several high-end servers, including a Sun Fire 6800, a Sun Fire 12000, three Sun Fire 15000s and five Origin 3000 supercomputers from Silicon Graphics.
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Swedish researchers today announced they have installed the country’s largest shared-memory supercomputer, a new 64-processor SGI(R) Altix(R) system equipped with half a Terabyte of memory. Deployed this month at the National Supercomputing Center (NSC) at Linkoping University (LiU), the new supercomputer from Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) will allow physicists and other researchers from throughout Sweden to break through computational barriers created by complex computations.
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Research firm IDC has drastically cut its estimates for future sales of Intel