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Industry Awards
During the quarter, SGI solutions amassed a variety of industry awards. In the 2005 HPCwire Innovation Awards, the company`s groundbreaking Silicon Graphics Prism™ systems swept top honors for visualization products. The readers of HPCwire, the journal of record for the high-performance computing (HPC) industry, proclaimed the Linux OS-based Silicon Graphics Prism "Most Innovative Visualization Product or Technology," and "Best Price-Performance in High-End Graphics or Visualization." HPCwire editors lauded the SGI line with "Most Innovative Visualization Product or Technology," and "Best Price-Performance in High-End Graphics or Visualization" honors.

The SGI Altix family also took top honors in the SC|05 Tour de HPCycles panel session. In the competition fashioned after the cycling world`s Tour de France, a panel of HPC end users voted to award jerseys for a range of categories. SGI Altix earned the coveted Yellow Jersey, the award for best overall supercomputer.

Customers
SGI`s second fiscal quarter saw key customer wins that crossed a broad range of industries and geographies:

Brazil`s National Institute of Meteorology (INMET) turned to SGI to equip its Division of Numerical Modeling with SGI compute, visualization and SAN solutions to serve as an efficient and scalable platform for high-resolution weather modeling and a range of forecasting applications. INMET purchased a 64-processor SGI® Altix® 3700 Bx2 supercomputer with 96GB of memory and running Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server 9 with SGI® ProPack™ 4, SGI® InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS™, two dual-processor SGI visualization systems, and four years of support from SGI Professional Services. With the new solutions, which were selected after competitive benchmarking against several competing products, INMET will run a wide variety of complex meteorological sciences models and applications, including the High Resolution Model, the High Resolution Brazilian Model, the Grid Analysis and Display System, and several in-house codes. Key to the selection of SGI Altix was its powerful shared-memory architecture, as INMET`s source code demands large volumes of memory, and the Altix architecture simplifies code maintenance and updates.
The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of California, San Diego, purchased SGI visualization and storage technology for the new Richard C. Atkinson Hall to provide research scientists, media artists, educators, and entertainers with the most cutting-edge visualization environment available today. During the building`s debut event, iGrid2005, in late September, the audience in the New Media Arts theater was shown numerous demonstrations of real-time, uncompressed 4K digital imagery projected by a Sony 4K digital projector powered by a Silicon Graphics Prism visualization system, and stored imagery streaming at 24 frames-per-second from the SGI® InfiniteStorage RM660 disk array. The program included a demonstration from San Diego State University, where a Silicon Graphics Prism system running GeoFusion software was used among many other efforts to process thousands and thousands of before-and-after aerial photos of Hurricane Katrina and stream them on the Web for easy access by relief organizations. At full occupancy (expected soon), more than 900 researchers from two dozen departments of UCSD, all of whom are immersed in a high-bandwidth environment where visual technologies are ubiquitous, will be housed in Atkinson Hall. The UCSD Division of Calit2 purchased a Silicon Graphics Prism visualization system with 48GB RAM and 8 Intel Itanium 2 processors running the Linux environment and an SGI InfiniteStorage RM660 system with 21.6TB of disk storage.
Goodrich Corporation`s Surveillance and Reconnaissance Systems (SRS) provides the world`s highest performance cameras and ground stations for capturing and interpreting reconnaissance and surveillance data. The industry leader turned to SGI for visualization, storage and data management solutions to support the development of the ground components of a new airborne reconnaissance system. For the program, Goodrich SRS, located in Worcs, England, purchased several Silicon Graphics® Tezro® desktop visualization systems and a 1.7TB SGI® InfiniteStorage TP9300 SAN enabled by SGI`s shared filesystem CXFS and a 16-port Brocade SAN switch. With CXFS, Goodrich engineers can transparently access large data sets across the SAN without having to physically transfer them from system to system.
The Hungarian Meteorological Service (HMS) selected SGI to supply a new weather forecasting supercomputer in order to meet with the ever increasing requirements of ultra-short range and short range atmospheric forecasting. The decision was reached after an exhaustive benchmarking process involving platforms from SGI, IBM and HP. HMS awarded the contract to SGI due to the SGI Altix platform`s superior performance on their two key modeling and forecasting applications: ALADIN (a numerical weather prediction model developed by a broad consortium of European and North-African countries) and MM5 (an atmospheric model developed in the US). HMS purchased a 144-processor SGI Altix 3700 BX2 supercomputer with 288GB of memory and running Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. The SGI shared-memory platform so excelled in the benchmark tests that the 144-processor Altix configuration outperformed competing systems powered by around 200 processors. With the help of the new Altix system, HMS scientists can compute forecasts in just a few minutes, instead of the hour required on the institute`s current hardware. Deployed in two phases by mid-2006, the new system will also allow HMS to exploit even higher resolution numerical models with more complex dynamical and physical computations.
Japan`s Institute of Fluid Science-Tohoku University purchased a Silicon Graphics Prism visualization system to support next-generation global environmental research. The 256-processor system will assist institute researchers in visualizing large-scale fluid simulations. The Silicon Graphics Prism system will interoperate with a scalable SGI® Altix® 3000 server based on the 64-bit Linux OS, a vector parallel NEC computer, external secondary storage systems and data archive systems, all of which are interconnected via high-speed network, enabling sharing of large files with the SGI InfiniteStorage CXFS shared filesystem and the NEC GFS global file system attached to the Storage Area Network (SAN).
Max-Planck-Institut for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, to accelerate its efforts to achieve breakthroughs in theoretical astrophysics, upgraded its existing SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 supercomputer. The institute added 48 Intel Itanium 2 processors and 96GB of memory to its high-density Altix system, creating a single supercomputer with 112 processors and 224GB of globally addressable memory. Blistering application performance on its original Altix system prompted the institute to extend its investment in SGI`s standards-based compute solution. The institute`s success on the Altix platform has proven that SGI technology is an ideal foundation for the next-generation, 69 TeraFLOP German National Supercomputer HLRB-II, currently being installed at Leibniz Rechenzentrurn Computing Center (LRZ), a national computer center also located in Munich that serves as a resource to researchers nationwide.
MECHAMAP, the Mechanical Material and Parts Center of South Korea, acquired SGI server, storage and data management solutions to support and streamline its CAE operations. Running Fluent and an in-house mechanical engineering code developed by Pusan University, MECHAMAP purchased a factory-integrated SGI Altix® 1350 cluster powered by 120 Intel Itanium 2 processors and 120GB of memory, and a 3.2TB SGI InfiniteStorage TP9300 array. MECHAMAP also acquired a four-processor SGI® Altix® 350 system to use as a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server. The Altix server is connected to the ABCC Portable Batch System (PBS) Pro cluster, a workload and resource management system. MECHAMAP selected SGI over competing solutions from HP and IBM due to SGI`s superior performance and ability to support "fat nodes" to handle large-scale problems more easily.
The National Center of High-Performance Computing (CENAPAD-SP) located at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil, to further its mission to serve as a resource for both academia and the business community, purchased large-node SGI server cluster and storage solutions that will support compute- and data-intensive applications in chemistry, physics, engineering, biology, computer science, and mathematics. CENAPAD-SP acquired six SGI Altix 350 nodes clustered via an InfiniBand network and powered by a total of 70 Intel Itanium 2 processors and featuring 284GB of memory and running Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 with ProPack 4. Serving the cluster will be a 5.6TB SGI InfiniteStorage TP9300 disk array. Driving the choice of SGI over competing systems from HP, Cray, Sun and NEC were several key factors: the availability of large, robust, independently scalable nodes connected via high-speed InfiniBand; the Altix platform`s performance-enhancing ability to balance memory availability and processing power; the ability of SGI`s rich set of software tools and libraries to ensure redundancy, reliability, world-class performance and easy system management; SGI`s competitive and comprehensive storage offerings; and the superior computational power of the SGI Altix architecture.
PetroChina Company Limited, one of the largest companies in the People`s Republic of China, selected an SGI InfiniteStorage Storage Area Network (SAN) solution to help manage rapidly growing seismic processing and petroleum reserve simulation data. PetroChina purchased a 20TB SAN based on the SGI InfiniteStorage TP9700 array and SGI InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS. With CXFS, PetroChina engineers can transparently share massive data sets without the need to physically transfer them from one location to another.
PPG Industries, an industrial and consumer materials maker, purchased SGI server and storage solutions backed by SGI Professional Services support to upgrade its computational chemistry, materials research and CAE technology infrastructure. PPG purchased a 32-processor SGI Altix 350 server with 64GB of memory, a direct-attached 4TB SGI InfiniteStorage TP9300 disk array, a tape library for back-up storage, and three years of SGI support and system administration. PPG engineers will use the new resources to tackle complex studies using applications such as Fluent, Gaussian, Accelrys, and ANSYS. PPG chose SGI over several competing solutions because of superior price/performance, PPG`s long relationship with SGI, and the ability to easily integrate new SGI solutions with PPG`s existing legacy SGI hardware.
ProSiebenSat.1 Produktion GmbH, the technical service division of the ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, is implementing its ability to centrally store and access broadcast content based on a server, storage and hierarchical storage management (HSM) solution from SGI. Based in Berlin and Munich, ProSiebenSat.1 Produktion purchased a NAS server with four-processor SGI Altix 350 system with 12GB of memory. ProSiebenSat.1 Produktion purchased multiple licenses of SGI Data Migration Facility (DMF), an HSM software solution that will enable the production operation to leverage its new 12.6TB SGI InfiniteStorage TP9700 array in Munich and another 21TB SGI InfiniteStorage TP9700 array in Berlin to expand its online-production-storage capacity. One more important part of this solution is SGI`s Digital Mass Storage Engine (DMS), which allows a "Partial Restore" of existing and archived clips. With the new system, the German broadcasting enterprise will have rapid and easy access to clips and content without having to re-ingest them. The new system also provides access to archive using the company`s existing workflow, while enabling production engineers to store and restore all video formats.
Robarts Research Institute, Canada`s leading independent center for medical research, deployed a major upgrade of its SGI resources with a 64-processor SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 supercomputer with 64GB of memory to further drive its research in Image-guided Surgery and Therapy, including the treatment and surgery of cancer. Robarts also upgraded its existing Silicon Graphics Prism visualization system, adding two additional graphics pipes for a total of four. The institute also purchased a four-pipe graphics upgrade for its Virtual Augmentation & Simulation for Surgery & Therapy (VASST) environment. The systems leverage SGI InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS, backed by 4Gb Ethernet controllers, to manage Robarts` rapidly growing database of important medical research data.
The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL), a National User Facility whose sophisticated X-ray resources are used to investigate atomic and molecular properties of matter to benefit environmental and medical research and other fields, recently purchased a 22TB SGI InfiniteStorage Storage Area Network to streamline the management of the lab`s growing crystallography experiment data. SSRL`s SAN leverages a 24-port Gigabit Ethernet switch and dual 16-port Fibre Channel switches for rapid data access, while SGI InfiniteStorage CXFS, the industry`s fastest shared filesystem, allows SSRL researchers using SGI servers to transparently share data over the SAN without having to move large files across the network. SSRL selected the SGI technologies, which include an SGI InfiniteStorage TP9700 Serial ATA disk array, because of the proven performance and reliability of SGI storage and CXFS solutions.
The Swedish National Supercomputer Center (NSC) at Linköping University, in an effort to handled ever-more complicated computational chemistry, physics, bioinformatics and engineering challenges, purchased a 64-processor SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 supercomputer. Equipped with 512GB of memory in a single node, the new system will rank as one of the largest nodes, in terms of shared memory size, in northern Europe. NSC researchers will run advanced applications such as Gaussian, VASP and DALTON, as well as other advanced scientific codes, on the new Altix system. The university selected SGI over competing platforms because of SGI`s application performance, support for open systems, and unequaled shared-memory architecture.
The Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg (TU-Hamburg) Data Center, on a quest to replace an HP Superdome server as the primary compute resource for the university`s community of HPC users, selected SGI Altix over an array of cluster solutions and supercomputers. TU-Hamburg purchased a 48-processor SGI Altix 4700 system with 96GB of memory and a dual-processor SGI® Altix® 330 entry-level server with 4GB of memory. The systems are targeted for use by a wide range of researchers and faculty running such applications as Abaqus, Fluent, LS-Dyna and Star-CD. Later in 2006, TU-Hamburg plans to upgrade the Altix 4700 system with another 48 dual-core Intel Montecito processors and 224GB of memory, bringing the total CPU count to 96 processors with 320GB of memory on the Altix system.
Thales, one of the world`s leading providers of military and civil aviation training solutions, purchased five Silicon Graphics Prism systems, each equipped with eight processors and four graphics pipes and running Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. The systems will provide updates to F-16 jet simulators. Each Silicon Graphics Prism system will be tasked with running the host aircraft dynamics application that feeds six cockpit displays. Displays will feature real-time data including radar warnings, radar displays, and heads-up displays. Thales selected SGI over PC-based cluster solutions because of the Silicon Graphics Prism system`s ability to operate multiple processors under a single instance of Linux, its ability display multiple graphics outputs from one system, and SGI`s real-time enhancement to industry-standard Linux.
The Universities of Melbourne, Queensland and Flinders in Australia is breaking new ground in the analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the human brain. University researchers will soon have an array of powerful new SGI resources at their disposal: A 64-processor SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 supercomputer with 256GB of memory; a 20-processor SGI Altix 350 mid-range server with 40GB of memory; and a six-processor SGI Altix 330 entry-level server with 48GB of memory. The SGI compute resources are integrated with a 6TB direct-attached SGI InfiniteStorage TP9300 array and a 57TB SGI Data Migration Facility, which allows for mass data sets to be stored in an efficient and accessible manner, allowing researchers to focus on science rather than data management. Using Star-P software, Melbourne researchers will be able to quickly and easily parallelize their desktop FSL imaging codes and algorithms to efficiently run on their new SGI Altix systems, thus applying SGI`s powerful shared-memory architecture to even their largest analysis problems.
The University of Missouri Bioinformatics Consortium is able to pursue new channels of scientific discovery in chemistry, physics and the life sciences with HPC supercomputing and storage solutions from SGI. With a new 64-processor, 128GB SGI Altix 3700 system and an 8TB SGI® InfiniteStorage TP9500 solution, university researchers and faculty can drive groundbreaking studies with such leading applications as Gaussian, Amber and VASP. Vital to the selection of SGI solutions was SGI`s superior performance and global shared-memory architecture.
Sony DADC turned to SGI to significantly upgrade its Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure and server systems to support production of its new high-capacity Blu-ray Disc technology. The entertainment technology giant purchased a SGI InfiniteStorage TP9700 4Gb RAID controller and two 4Gb SAN switches to manage 8TB of storage on top of the 4TB InfiniteStorage TP9300 solution already in place. Sony DADC integrated both controllers in the same SAN with another existing 10TB secondary storage installation, while adding nearly 17TB of more secondary storage capacity. An upgrade of Sony DADC`s license of SGI InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS will further enable seamless and efficient data management as the company drives the Blu-ray Disc initiative worldwide. To accommodate the additional workload, the company also upgraded its existing SGI server platform from eight to 12 processors. Sony DADC upgraded its SGI infrastructure due to the superior performance, reliability and scalability of SGI storage and server solutions.

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Deutsche Bank Germany files Form SC 13G/A on 1/27/06.
Number of SGI shares held at 12/30/05 increased from
13,359,176 (4.98%) to 17,464,000 (6.50%)

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Wilfrid Laurier University Selects SGI Technology for Computational Sciences
SGI Altix 128-Processor System Delivers First Shared-Memory Processing Capabilities to Southwestern Ontario`s SHARCNET Grid


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (February 6, 2006)—Wilfrid Laurier University (WLU), one of 14 Ontario universities and colleges on the growing Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCNET) grid, has chosen technology from Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) for computational sciences, including mathematical modeling, nanotechnology, biology, quantum physics, chemistry, and a wide variety of scientific research projects. Installed in October, the SGI® Altix® system is shared with other SHARCNET members throughout southwestern Ontario and represents the first time the powerful shared memory processing of SGI architecture, which can make a huge amount of RAM available as needed, will be available on the grid. The University purchased the SGI Altix computer, with 256GB memory and 128 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors-one of the fastest computers in Canada-through grants from Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the Ontario Research Fund.

Wilfrid Laurier University previously hosted a small 8-processor code development and testing cluster on SHARCNET. With the acquisition of the SGI Altix system WLU joins the ranks of the major grid members at the Universities of Western Ontario, Guelph, McMaster and Waterloo, who host large production clusters to accelerate research results. The SHARCNET consortium of leading academic institutions also includes the Universities of Windsor, Brock, Trent, Lakehead, Laurentian and York, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, and Fanshawe and Sheridan Colleges. Production clusters are located in individual sites but they are equally available to all of SHARCNET. Ultimately, the goal is that researchers will just submit jobs without knowing which machine their job will run on, or where that machine might be located. Jobs with large datasets that need shared-memory architecture and very powerful processing would automatically be routed to WLU`s SGI Altix system.

"A lot of work is planned for the new SGI Altix system because many researchers throughout SHARCNET have a special need for big memory jobs," said Dr. Ian Hamilton, professor of theoretical chemistry, Wilfrid Laurier University, and the Laurier lead on this acquisition. "Many problems can be broken down and run serially, but some critically important problems can`t be. Whenever you have a system with many interacting components, there is a real advantage to using the SGI shared-memory architecture because you can look at all aspects of the problem. Instead of running pieces of molecules and portions of datasets on machines less powerful than the SGI Altix, researchers will now be able to look at the entire problem."

In nanoscience, calculating properties of quantum dots, rods or wires involves modeling an assembly of atoms that are interacting with one another, leading to the overall behavior of interest. There are many other examples. In biology, a researcher looking at the genome wants to be able to have the entire structure in memory, to be able to examine different aspects of it simultaneously. In chemistry and biochemistry, large molecules often need to be simulated. A researcher looking at photosynthesis wants to be able to have the entire structure in memory because something which happens in one region of the molecule can very quickly affect another region.

When Laurier decided to upgrade their on-site computational capacity and enhance their contribution to SHARCNET, they determined a definite need for a large, symmetric multi-processor (SMP) machine. A request for proposal (RFP) was issued without specifying the number of processors beyond the minimum of 64 that the committee, which included Dr. Hamilton, had decided upon.

"Wilfrid Laurier is the only SHARCNET site with shared-memory architecture, so that was a very important component of the infrastructure. Linux was something that we insisted on because there`s no propriety code and porting Fortran or C is actually very easy. We`re really delighted to have gone with Silicon Graphics; the Altix will get a lot of use," added Dr. Hamilton.

The SGI® Altix® 3700 system, installed in October, is linked to desktops in research areas at WLU as well as being linked via 10GigE to the four main SHARCNET sites, and by 1Gb fiber optics to the other SHARCNET partners.

"We expect the SGI Altix system at Wilfrid Laurier University will be in great demand by the entire SHARCNET community, which is already involved in simulating the formation of cosmic structure, modeling the movement of urban pollution, investigating immune systems and drug resistance, and developing stronger lightweight alloys," said Michael Brown, application segment manager, scientific research at SGI. "SGI Altix systems are excellent grid resources since they allow users anywhere on the grid to quickly and easily generate unique results that are only possible with a combination of large shared-memory and scalable computing power."

http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2006…

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Bioinformatics Consortium at the University of Missouri adds SGI Technology for Large-Scale Computational Life Sciences Research
SGI Altix System with SGI InfiniteStorage SAN Is Key Performance Upgrade to Multi-Vendor Environment


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (February 7, 2006)—To add significant computing and storage capacity to existing life sciences research infrastructure, the Bioinformatics Consortium at the University of Missouri recently purchased high-performance computing technology from Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) and an SGI® InfiniteStorage storage area network (SAN) with 8TB of capacity. The new SGI® Altix® server was specifically chosen for its shared-memory architecture and Linux® operating environment, which will allow researchers, particularly in areas of molecular dynamics, molecular modeling, protein structure prediction, and a number of allied activities, to run larger-scale problems than ever before.

Installed in November, the SGI systems were made available to university researchers beginning in mid-December. The Altix will immediately take over a large number of big computational chemistry jobs currently being run on a slower server, including structural studies of bipolymers, chemistry in interstellar space, and polar order in crystalline organic molecular materials.

Researchers studying environmental issues using satellite and GIS data, and other scientists studying electrical properties of solid-state devices, have already requested blocks of time on the SGI Altix system as well. There is also very early-stage research of electronic structure, crystal structures and chemical structures of various biological compounds with the idea of being able to use natural organic compounds to develop computational capabilities. The primary reason the University purchased the SGI Altix system is to run these kinds of problems, which require massive processing power and shared-memory architecture to get results in hours instead of days or weeks.

"One of the key inhibiting factors for researchers who want to run larger problems is the size of memory," said Dr. Gordon Springer, Scientific Director, Bioinformatics Consortium, University of Missouri. "With the SGI Altix we`re significantly increasing our capacity for large-scale computations requiring large memory, problems that are even beyond the scope of our existing system, which is hardly small. We`ve run some benchmarks, and jobs that were taking about 50 to 60 hours on the HP Alpha SC system actually took about 2 to 6 hours on a similarly configured SGI Altix. I consider the Altix to be a keystone in our infrastructure. The Altix was, I believe, the most appropriate system that we could put in place that would support the symmetric multiprocessing large-scale shared-memory environment for life sciences researchers across the university system."

Life sciences are a strategic area for the University of Missouri, which encompasses four campuses: Kansas City, St. Louis, Rolla, and the flagship campus in Columbia. The University of Missouri Bioinformatics Consortium was founded in July 2001, with the mission of providing infrastructure to support the life sciences researchers across the University system. The University carries out joint research projects in medicine, and in life sciences generally, and maintains active relationships with Missouri-based medical IT firms, agricultural corporations such as Danforth Plant Sciences Center, biotech companies including Monsanto, and the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City.

The Bioinformatics Consortium at University of Missouri purchased an SGI® Altix® 3700 Bx2, with 128GB RAM and 64 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors running Novell® SUSE™ Linux Enterprise Server with the SGI® ProPack™ software performance suite, and an 8TB SGI® InfiniteStorage SAN with InfiniteStorage shared filesystem CXFS™ to support instant data access for large analysis, simulation or modeling programs. The main applications the SGI Altix system will run are Gaussian, Amber 8, and NAMD, popular open-source tools for chemistry, biochemistry and physics, especially for studying molecular and crystal structures.

The Bioinformatics Consortium now has three different architectures to support the life sciences initiative. As Dr. Springer noted, the SGI Altix system fills the needs of large memory SMP architectural kinds of problems while a Linux cluster based on dual-core Intel® Xeon® processors will support some of the more readily available, but not quite as highly parallelized, kinds of programming applications that many researchers want to run. A third FPGA (field programmable gate array) system is focused on implementing bioinformatics algorithms for large scale data comparisons and genomic database searching.

"Given the complement of different systems and different architectures, we hope to be able to capture and be able to support effectively all of the life sciences researchers, regardless of the specific kinds of computational needs that they require," said Dr. Springer. "In fact, the Xeon system and the Altix will be sharing the same SGI TP9500 storage system, which has 8TB, and the two systems will be talking on the same set of disk. I do distributed computing and grid computing and so, through some of the code that we`ll be developing, I expect to make this environment seamless for the researchers. We would actually schedule jobs based upon the architecture that best suits their computing needs."

The Bioinformatics Consortium resources are networked university-wide and to the Abilene 10Gb Internet2 network nationally. The University of Missouri is looking into building a high-speed network for inter-campus communication as well as looking at alternatives, including joining the National LambdaRail, a dark fiber high-speed network rapidly being adopted by leading universities nationwide.

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"The addition of the processing power of the SGI Altix to the University of Missouri`s Bioinformatics Consortium will encourage scientists from many disciplines to move from their lab desktops into the world of large datasets, which can be run in hours not days, or weeks," said Afshad Mistri, senior manager of scientific markets, SGI. "The results of that research will, in time, benefit everyone, and the training will enable students to easily move into jobs in biotech firms, government research labs and medical IT systems companies where the shared-memory architecture and power of SGI systems are being rapidly adopted."

http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2006…

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Bankruptcy appears to be a real option for loss-making Silicon Graphics, as it tries to plan its future

Silicon Graphics (SGI), once a leading light of the supercomputing world, has admitted that its financial situation is so grim that it could be forced into bankruptcy.

In a regulatory filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), SGI warned investors that a restructuring plan and recent loans totalling $50m may not be enough to save it.

"If we are unable to achieve our objectives, we would consider alternatives for ensuring the continued operation of our business. These alternatives could include further reductions in headcount and in the scope of our operations, generating cash from selling or licensing our intellectual property and seeking funding from marketing partners and government customers," said SGI in its filing.

SGI also suggested that it could be taken over by another company.

"If we fail to implement one or more of these alternatives successfully and we have a significant shortfall against our fiscal 2006 operating plan, we could be forced to seek protection under bankruptcy laws," SGI added.

In the three months to 31 December, 2005, SGI made a loss of $28m on total revenues of $144.4 million, compared to a loss of $9m on revenues of $223 million in the same quarter in 2004.

As reported last November, SGI was forced to delist from the New York Stock Exchange after its shares were continually valued below $1 for a prolonged period.

In the 1980s and 1990s, SGI enjoyed great success through its graphical display workstations. Some analysts have blamed its decline on its decision to use Intel`s Itanium chip in its systems, before it became clear that the Itanium would ship later and be less powerful than expected.

But SGI was also a victim of the growth in power of the standard desktop machine, which has meant there is less demand for specialist computers for graphical work.

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SGI CEO Delivers Aggressive Changes in First 30 Days as Part of Turnaround
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (March 3, 2006)—Dennis McKenna, the CEO of Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID), today unveiled his first major moves to achieve the goal of returning the company to profitability. McKenna is taking decisive action implementing a new organizational structure that is based on a distributed and collaborative management model, with a philosophy to drive responsiveness, flexibility and accountability throughout the organization.

As part of this, approximately 12% of the workforce or 250 positions in specific areas will be eliminated in the restructuring. In addition, SGI will continue to move forward with the previously announced cost reduction programs, increasing the total annualized savings objective to $150 million by the end of 2006. Together these actions will result in a flattened organization and simplified business processes and structures.

The total incremental restructuring charge, including severance and other charges, is expected to be approximately $20 million, and incurred over the next several quarters, as the international impacts generally take longer to complete. SGI`s severance programs provide, where practical, payments to be made over the same period in which the payroll expenses otherwise would have been incurred, with the objective of minimizing incremental cash expense.

"As promised in late January, the goal for my first 30 days at SGI was to solidify a strong business foundation and assemble an organization that is laser-focused on execution," said McKenna. "We`ve made tough decisions and we thank all SGI employees for their hard work and commitment."

Product Portfolio
McKenna`s next strategic step is to effectively position SGI`s existing products for better differentiation in the marketplace. The Company will consolidate its compute server and visualization platform, and support customers` visualization needs by leveraging best-of-breed, industry-standard, and open-source graphics partnerships. In addition, the Company will aggressively pursue new markets in the enterprise space, which are an excellent match for SGI`s highly scalable servers and high-performance storage solutions. SGI helps these companies efficiently manage big data problems through its unique technologies, including its NUMAflex global shared memory, NAS and SAN solutions. Finally, the company will bring new products to market within different price/performance bands, specifically targeting the mid-range.

"One thing that is not changing is that customers remain our top priority," said McKenna. "SGI is committed to offering services and solutions to our customers that solve their high-performance computing needs."

Corporate Financing
The board of directors continues to explore all strategic and financial options as management moves to stabilize the business.

"Critical obstacles are still in the road and we are actively recruiting to make strategic hires to bring in the right skill sets needed in channel, product, and business development to achieve our objectives and complete this turnaround," McKenna continued.

Management Changes
SGI also announced today the resignation of CFO Jeff Zellmer and departure of COO Warren Pratt, who are leaving SGI to pursue personal interests. Kathy Lanterman, currently the corporate controller at SGI, will replace Jeff Zellmer as CFO.

"Both Jeff and Warren have made significant contributions to SGI and we wish them well in their future endeavors," McKenna concluded. "Kathy brings to the CFO role a strong history of financial leadership and operational experience. I am confident that she will execute a seamless transition."

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SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc. (OTC: SGID), is a leader in high-performance computing. SGI helps customers solve their computing challenges, whether it`s sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil more efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland security and defense, enabling the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, or helping enterprises manage large data. With offices worldwide, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and can be found on the Web at www.sgi.com.

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Operating expenses for the third fiscal quarter were $82 million compared with $89 million in the prior quarter and $100 million one year ago.

Unrestricted cash, cash equivalents and marketable investments on March 31, 2006 were $55 million compared with $66 million on December 30, 2005 and $84 million on March 25, 2005. SGI has received a limited forbearance under its asset-based credit agreement in light of not meeting the EBITDA covenant in that agreement. In conjunction with the forbearance, SGI has paid down the amount drawn under the term loan by $20 million using $10 million from unrestricted cash and $10 million of previously restricted cash.

Following this announcement, Silicon Graphics, Inc traded down significantly as it lost over 80% to under $0.06, as shareholders unload their shares as everything seems to fall apart for this company. Silicon Graphics' stock was recently delisted from the New York Stock Exchange for trading below a minimum threshold of $1 a share, and now trades on the small-cap OTC Bulletin Board.

Then things got worse as the long-struggling Silicon Graphics filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company employs more than 1,800 people world-wide, listed assets of $369.4 million and debt of $664.3 million in its bankruptcy filing. Earlier this year, Silicon Graphics replaced its top executive amid widening losses and lower revenue. It posted a $76 million net loss on sales of $730 million in 2005. The BWR Research Team will continue to follow the market sentiment on this company and numerous others.


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