Ask anybody to name the companies that made the greatest impact on storage, and it’s quite possible that one of the most significant names will not come up. I am referring to Silicon Graphics (SGI), a company that (as you may already know) has an enviable track record and top-notch solutions spanning supercomputing, servers, workstations, OSes, and, yes, storage.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) has integrated the prototype night vision goggle (NVG) simulation image generation hardware on the Lockheed Martin F-16 Mission Training Center (MTC) program for the U.S. Air Force. The NVG installation was completed as part of the $3.6 million production phase contract awarded to SGI last year by Lockheed Martin. Lockheed Martin’s F-16 MTC pilot training systems provide realistic immersive training to the U.S. Air Force in high-resolution virtual training environments.
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DSI Direct Sales Inc. (DSDI) announced that Digital Color Imaging Inc. (DCI), its wholly owned subsidiary, has renewed its strategic partnership with Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) http://www.sgi.com, as it continued to expand the capabilities of the Vault(TM). The Vault is DCI’s version of a Digital Asset Management Service provided to its clients. Companies have countless visual assets, either digital or printed such as photos, logos, catalogs, promotional materials and documents. These assets are expensive to create and as they accumulate may become difficult or impossible to catalog and retrieve rapidly.
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[[ This is just freaky and strange. Moving faceless robot mannequins – they’re just scary. Co-developed with SGI Japan, who either deserve some sort of award, or to be locked away somewhere before they do more harm :-) ]]
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SGI Japan Ltd. (President: Norio Izumi, HQ: Ebisu, Shibuya-ku) announced that it will deliver its latest high-end Linux(R) server, SGI(R) Altix(R) 3700 Bx2, to the Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP, Director: Kazuo Ueda, Location: Kashiwa-city, Chiba-prefecture) in Japan as the new supercomputing system for the institute.
The 1,280-processor system, running the latest Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors, will be the third largest high-performance supercomputer based on the Linux operating system (OS) and delivered by SGI following the announcements of the systems installed at National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in United States and at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute.
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