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Ken Adelson, NBA Entertainment’s senior vice president of production operations and planning, will be the keynote speaker at the Sports Media and Technology Conference being presented by Future Media Concepts (FMC) at the C4-Sports Technology Conference and Exposition, July 17-19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC)…….
In building its new digital platform, NBA Entertainment (NBAE) engaged Silicon Graphics (SGI) to provide an SGI(R) InfiniteStorage solution capable of accommodating all NBAE content, which today includes 1,500 NBA games a season, the entire WNBA and D-League seasons, and associated feature footage, as well as the 60 years of archival footage currently stored on hundreds of thousands of tapes.
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To perform highly realistic walk-throughs and simulations of engineering, industrial planning and design projects, the School of ICT at the Sein

Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) today unveiled a groundbreaking solution that packs the power of dozens of supercomputer nodes into a single blade by leveraging the inherent parallelism of the industry’s most powerful Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology. The new SGI(R) RASC(TM) RC100 computation blade, built with dual Xilinx Virtex(TM) 4 FPGAs, can accelerate the performance of many HPC applications by orders of magnitude over conventional systems at a far lower
cost and much smaller footprint.
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SGI has picked an obvious strategy for a company struggling to stay alive. Frustrate its customers with complete confusion.
Any dolt could understand last week’s proposals to cut 12 per cent of SGI’s, shuffle a few executives and keep working on bringing costs down. Less clear, however, was SGI’s decision to “consolidate its compute server and visualization platform” and to “pursue new markets in the enterprise space.” That’s because SGI didn’t back up these vague statements with any firm details.
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