To support faster time to market and achieve more reliable aerospace components, Hamilton Sundstrand, a division of United Technologies Corporation, purchased high performance compute and storage technology from Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGIDE) .
Hamilton Sundstrand, which manufactures a large variety of components and systems for commercial and military aircraft as well as space and marine systems, has attained impressive speed-ups of computation-intensive structural analysis and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis since the large shared memory SGI(R) Altix(R) system and SGI InfiniteStorage scalable high-performance storage systems were installed as part of the company’s migration from Unix(R) OS-based systems to the Linux(R) OS environment.
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