…….Efilm performs digital processing for films such as The Bourne Supremacy, Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events and Finding Neverland, all of which are stored on a 200TB+ storage-area network (SAN) from Silicon Graphics Inc.
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To meet explosive data storage growth and performance demands caused by the increase in 2K film data and the rollout of 4K digital cinema masters — and to keep that data always available in real-time for producers and artists — Pacific Title & Art Studio turned to Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) to further expand its existing heterogeneous SGI(R) InfiniteStorage storage area network (SAN) infrastructure.
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Scientists and novices alike have gazed at the night sky for centuries and
pondered, “How was the Universe formed?” Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today
announced that through the use of its high-performance supercomputing
technology, the answers to these and many other questions about the origins of
the Universe may be uncovered by astrophysics scientists at the Shanghai
Astronomical Observatory and the Nanjing Purple Mountain Astronomical
Observatory.
With the new SGI(R) Altix(R) systems installed in November at each observatory — Shanghai and Nanjing — scientists are exploring the theory of the structure of evolution of the Universe by running high-resolution numerical simulations of galaxy formation.
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No technology accepted by the scientific community today can accurately forecast underwater earthquakes and the ensuing disasters they can cause. However, supercomputing and storage systems are being put to use to assist in the repair of damage done by the recent catastrophic tsunami in Asia, by processing air- and sea-condition models……….
FNMOC began using SGI servers, supercomputers and storage technology in 2001. Today, the network includes two Origin 3800 machines, two Origin 3900s and two 12-processor Origin systems, which are clustered because the center’s work is continuous and the output of one job often contributes to the input of the next, Clancy said. The systems are connected through SGI’s shared-file system, called InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS, which permits data to be passed among operating systems without any replicating.
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Two vulnerabilities have been reported in SGI IRIX, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions on a vulnerable system with escalated privileges and disclose some sensitive information.
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