Signaling a new age for professional sports, NBA Entertainment today announced
it has contracted to engage Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) as a vendor partner
with plans to use some of the world’s most powerful computing technologies to
create the No. 1 high-tech powerhouse in the world of sports.
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Can a proprietary Unix be a desktop OS that competes with Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux desktops? Although it may lack the visual effects of OS X, and installation is tricky in parts, Irix is a stable desktop OS — possibly because it runs only on SGI’s own hardware.
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To alleviate symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease and other nervous system movement disorders, researchers and clinicians at The Cleveland Clinic are implanting an FDA-approved electrical stimulation device into the brain. The deep brain stimulation (DBS) device, very similar to a cardiac pacemaker, is being implanted in approximately 200 people a year at The Cleveland Clinic — one of the largest DBS implant centers in the world.
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Deere & Company’s Moline, Illinois Technology Center has completed the implementation of a storage solution from Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) that dramatically speeds product design processes. With engineering and design teams working in multiple operating environments, data consolidation and management were key factors in the design of Deere’s recently updated Center. Deere has
implemented an SGI shared filesystem storage area network (SAN) solution to create instant and concurrent access to data files.
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To address the growing time-to-market challenges for manufacturers competing on a global scale, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) and MSC.Software Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: MNSC.PK) today at the SAE Noise and Vibration Conference and Exhibition unveiled a powerful, integrated solution to streamline and accelerate virtual product development (VPD).
With VPD solutions, engineers can consider more design alternatives and evaluate them more thoroughly. By subjecting digital prototypes to stress tests, aerodynamic studies and other data-intensive analyses, engineers can verify product designs faster and less expensively than if they built and tested physical mock-ups.
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