MagiQ Technologies Inc., which is based in New York, has formed a joint venture to commercialize diamond-encrusted single-photon sources for use as components of quantum cryptography systems. Also participating in the agreement are Silicon Graphics Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., and, in Australia, Qucor Pty Ltd. of Sydney and the University of Melbourne.
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Today’s high-performance computing architectures may be starting to limit the pace of industry, science, and research and development. This limitation creates a potential crisis for business and countries striving to innovate and optimize massive amounts of complex data in order to develop a competitive advantage in an increasingly competitive global marketplace.
That’s the theme of a keynote speech that Dr. Eng Lim Goh, senior vice president and chief technology officer of Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID), will present at TechSouth — The Gulf Coast Technology Summit and Exposition at the Cajundome Convention Center in Lafayette, Louisiana (April 26-28, 2006). Dr. Goh will discuss new concepts in massive shared-memory computing architectures designed to offer the scientific and business communities a way to accelerate innovation, knowledge discovery and analytics.
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Cray said Monday it has been notified of a possible delisting from the Nasdaq, the latest in a series of woes plaguing Cray and other one-time giants in the world of supercomputing………
Silicon Graphics, or SGI, was removed from the New York Stock Exchange because its shares were consistently below $1

THE RECENT “strong rumour” about Japanese consortium (whatever that may mean) “buying” over the Itanium platform from Intel (whatever that may mean) sounds quite interesting – if not intriguing, as it is hot on the heels of the more official announcement recently about a 10 billion dollar Itanium investment fund by a group of vendors……..
But why a Japanese consortium, that is, one in which there is no HP, the co-author of Itanium and the party who sacrificed the most for it, and SGI, the nearly bankrupt Itanium system technology leader?
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To greatly enhance clinical treatment and medical research capabilities, with special emphasis on genomics data mining, proteomics data mining and translational medicine, Erasmus Medical Center added server and visualization systems from Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) to its hospital and research facility in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The SGI(R) technology, installed late last year, is used for collaboration and visualization of large amounts of data, applied in neurosciences, cardiovascular, and cancer fields, as well as monitoring fetal development.
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