Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced the Open Storage initiative. This new program enables hardware storage vendors qualified by SGI to run SGI(R) InfiniteStorage software, a suite of storage solutions designed specifically for the most demanding data environments. Open storage provides IS managers flexibility and investment protection for managing data over multi-vendor environments.
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…. IBM now plans to bridge that divide using a feature of its new Power5 processors. With a technology called Virtual Vector Architecture, or ViVA, the 16 processor cores of a scalar server such as IBM’s Power5-based p5-570 can be yoked together to act like a single vector processor.
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The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) today recognized Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) for its outstanding export market expansion by awarding the company the DOC Export Achievement Certificate. The award was presented in a ceremony held in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, the site of SGI’s manufacturing facility. The company will be given the award as an example of how U.S. firms can “in- source” their high-value manufacturing and successfully compete throughout the world while manufacturing their products solely in the United States. Fewer than 100 of these certificates are given annually.
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The growing use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and other highly compute-intensive engineering-software applications is driving innovation in the hardware field. Among developments: Both SGI and Cray Inc. are pushing new computer systems that provide the speed and power to help engineers run sophisticated analysis programs faster.
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In a joint effort with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to make more sophisticated open-source performance tools available to government laboratories, universities and other researchers, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced it is developing an open-source version of the SGI(R) SpeedShop(TM) performance analysis tool. Aimed at accelerating research efforts on Linux(R) OS-based systems, the NNSA-funded project will provide the evolving open-source community with broad access to SpeedShop that for years has been a staple on IRIX(R), the world’s most
technically advanced UNIX(R) high-performance computing environment.
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