A vulnerability has been reported arrayd, which can be exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the arshell command and can be exploited to start a shell with root privileges on any hosts in the configured cluster or array.
The vulnerability has been reported in ProPack 3 SP5 and SP6 and in ProPack 4.
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Following up on a promise it recently made to solution providers, SGI is now offering a new line of entry-level products geared to the channel.
The Mountain View, Calif., vendor, known more for its direct sales of high-end computing and visualization systems, has realized it needs the channel for growth, especially as a way to penetrate new accounts that had never before considered SGI, said Dave Gibson, SGI’s director of channels for the Americas.
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IBM Corp.’s supercomputers continue to be the fastest in the world, according to the latest Top500 list of the speediest machines released Wednesday. The company snagged six of the top 10 spots, including the coveted number one and two placings while widening the performance gap between its machines and those of its competitors………
Silicon Graphics Inc.’s (SGI’s) Columbia system at the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Ames Research Center in Moffet Field, California, was in third position with 51.87 teraflops.
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With NASA now projecting a mid-July Space Shuttle return to flight, Lockheed Martin Space Systems-Michoud Operations continues their impact analysis of the external fuel tank using the SGI

Celoxica, Ltd. today announced support for Silicon Graphics, Inc.’s (SGI) Reconfigurable Application-Specific Computing (RASC) technology in the Celoxica DK Design Suite of tools for C-based design and synthesis. Celoxica and SGI have teamed to deliver libraries and tools defining a software programming environment for algorithm acceleration using field-programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs. SGI intends to include evaluation copies of Celoxica’s design software as part of its RASC development kit shipping this month.
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