To help Brazil maintain its recently achieved goal of oil self-sufficiency, the Numerical Offshore Tank-TPN laboratory at the State University of São Paulo (USP) selected shared memory, high-performance compute and scalable SGI® InfiniteStorage systems from SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) to employ, and further develop, an exciting new computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code. The laboratory’s main focus is to develop and analyze floating offshore production systems for deep-water oil and gas production managed by Petrobras, Brazil’s national oil and gas company. In the six months the USP lab has been using the SGI® Altix® system, purchased with funding from the Brazilian government and Petrobras, researchers report the code scales extremely well and runs up to 100 times faster on the SGI Altix system than on their home-grown cluster environment.
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SGI, whose Altix servers successfully passed the Common Criteria security evaluation for the Controlled Access Protection Profile (CAPP), announced Feb. 7 that it has received formal recognition for the certification.
A presentation acknowledging the CAPP certification took place yesterday in a ceremony at the annual RSA Conference, the world’s leading information security conference and exposition.
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The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C., a DoD scientific research lab, has selected SGI Altix servers and SGI InfiniteStorage solutions to help demonstrate the military utility of a scalable, rapid and secure integrated capability to retrieve, store and share massive amounts of information effectively between global users……..
One of NRL’s missions is the development of new techniques, algorithms, and methodologies to cope with the very large datasets that are being created by the joint warfighter community. To help support the LD JCTD initiative, NRL has purchased a broad range of SGI high-performance computing systems, including Linux-based servers and clusters. The lab has installed the new SGI Altix XE line of x86-64 based servers and clusters running dual-core Intel Xeon processors, and the dual-core SGI Altix 450 and 4700 blade servers running the latest Intel Itanium 2 processors.
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ilicon Graphics (www.sgi.com) and PipelineFX have teamed to bring its Qube! render farm management system benefits to a complete SGI server and Network Attached Storage (NAS) workflow solution.
Built around the new SGI Altix XE servers based on the new Intel Xeon dual-core processors and SGI Infinite Storage NAS technology, the new Render Management Solution is relevant to a range of market segments including animation, special effects, game development, bioinformatics, engineering and government efforts. Ideal for rendering and build processing alike, Qube! integrates directly with most leading 3D modeling and rendering applications, and has demonstrated many times that it can improve productivity and increase content quality while optimizing hardware resources.
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Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) announced today that it has filed an amended plan of reorganization (the “Plan”) and disclosure statement. The plan, which is subject to confirmation by the Court, reflects the global settlement agreement entered into with the Official Creditors’ Committee, an Ad Hoc Committee of Senior Secured Noteholders and the largest holder of Silicon Graphics’ Unsecured Debentures. With the support of its major creditor constituencies, SGI continues to move expeditiously towards emergence from Chapter 11 in September 2006.
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