Shortly after rival Hewlett-Packard withdrew from the market, Silicon Graphics has begun selling a new workstation with Intel’s Itanium processor.
SGI’s new system, which costs between $8,500 and $39,000, accommodates one or two Itanium 2 processors and as much as 24GB of memory, the company is expected to announce Tuesday. It’s based on the same technology, including the Linux operating system and ATI graphics hardware, as the company’s higher-end Prism products introduced last October.
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Signate today announced the Signate Telephony Server 5000(TM), the world’s first high performance, scaleable and standards-based VoIP telephony switching platform for telephony service providers and enterprise customers……..
Up to eight uniquely scalable modules can share a 6.4GB/second interconnect based on SGI technology that enables a coordinated system supporting over 40,000 simultaneous call streams. That eight module configuration also means significantly lower infrastructure and administration costs compared to the array of personal computers that would be necessary to achieve comparable performance.
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SGI (NYSE: SGI) today announced that the U.S. General Services Administration, Federal Technology Service, on behalf of the Department of Defense (DoD) High
Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), has purchased an SGI(R) Altix(R) supercomputer to help the United States military maintain its technological supremacy over its adversaries in weapon systems design.
The Aeronautical Systems Center (ASC) Major Shared Resource Center (MSRC) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, has enhanced their computing power with the recent installation of a 2,048-processor SGI Altix supercomputer that will: aid weapon systems design of innovative materials; advance design concepts; improve and speed modification programs; increase high fidelity simulations; and enable more efficient tests and evaluations.
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As Earth Day 2005 approaches, more scientists than ever are working to understand our environment and mankind’s impact on it. And today, Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) announced that scientists at three respected institutions have
joined the ranks of researchers worldwide who rely on SGI(R) computing, visualization and storage solutions to study and preserve the planet’s resources and ecosystems.
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To build a more efficient workflow and expand creative capabilities for their artists,
Detroit-area powerhouse GTN, Inc., a global production, post-production and new media company, recently underwent a complete technology refresh for its seven Edit and five VFX Suites, converting all to visualization systems from Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI). An employee-owned company focused on providing innovative and creative solutions for top advertising agencies and Fortune 500 companies worldwide, GTN purchased 11 Silicon Graphics(R) Tezro(R) visualization systems and one SGI(R) Onyx(R) visualization computer along with a full complement of Autodesk(R) Discreet(R) high-end, industry-leading software.
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