ATLANTA, Ga., 86th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, Booth 354, 455 (Jan. 30, 2006) Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) announced today that Raytheon Company has selected SGI to work on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) “R” Series program.
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Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) announced today that Dennis McKenna has been named chairman of the board, chief executive officer and president, effective immediately. McKenna succeeds Robert Bishop, who will remain on the board of directors and serve as vice chairman.
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Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) today announced results for its second fiscal quarter which ended December 30, 2005.
Revenue for the second quarter fiscal year 2006 was $144 million, gross margin was 41.7% and the operating loss was $28 million. For comparison, in the first quarter FY06, revenue was $170 million, gross margin was 37.8% and the operating loss was $26 million. The second quarter fiscal year 2006 net loss was $30 million or $0.11 per share, compared with a net loss of $32 million or $0.12 per share in the previous quarter.
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Dresden
University of Technology (TUD) has signed a contract with Silicon Graphics
(NYSE: SGI) to provide a high-performance computing environment representing
an investment of over $18 million, which will give TUD a distinction as Center
for Scientific Computing. In two project phases to be completed within twelve
months, a state-of-the-art, innovative and flexibly usable infrastructure with
computational power of more than a dozen teraflops will be implemented. This
will enable investigators in scientific areas such as physics, material
sciences, engineering, bioinformatics and nanotechnology to find answers to
new types of challenging problems.
As central component, SGI will install a large SGI(R) Altix(R) shared-memory system containing 6,000 Gigabytes of contiguously usable main memory and more than 1,500 processor cores based on the most recent Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 dual-core technology.
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WITH THE RECENT CUTS to Itanium’s speed and marketshare, you have to wonder what is going to happen to SGI. Fear not brave purple helmeted Altix lovers, there is a backup plan, and it looks to be better than the mainstream one.
SGI has plans for Whitefield based Altixes, so if you want a 2000+ CPU x86 box to play Half-Life 2 on, you can buy one in a couple of years. Plans are well underway for these beasts, and I think they will do wonders for SGI’s sales. No one has the scalability of SGI’s boxes, and no architecture has the software base of x86. Put them together, and it looks like you have a surefire winner.
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