Malaysia Genome Institute Advances Bioinformatics Research Using SGI Technology

SGI Altix, Altix XE Cluster and SGI InfiniteStorage Combination Delivers Cohesive NAS/SAN Workflow Environment for All Stages of Research SUNNYVALE, Calif. and LORNE, Australia, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 29th Annual Lorne Genome Conference -- To create an optimal workflow that encom...

UW-Madison picks scalable SGI computer to simulate weather

Rendered data from an experimental CIMSS satellite. Courtesy of UW-Madison. Madison, Wis. To model something as big as the weather, the University of Wisconsin's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies needed a bigger computer. The institute has begun testing its wea...

Synthetic Genomics Inc. and ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company Sign Exclusive, Multi-Year Agreement to Develop Next Generation Biofuels Using Photosynthetic Algae

... As part of the multi-faceted agreement, sgi will receive milestone payments for achievements in developing biofuel products. Total funding for sgi in research and development activities and milesto...to third parties. "This agreement between sgi and EMRE represents a comprehensive, long-term res...

Bio-IT World Announces the Winners of its 2009 Best Practices Awards Program

...emi Greyzdorf, IDC Jim Kremidas, Quintiles Alan Louie, Health Industry Insights/IDC Eric Neumann, Clinical Semantics Group Deepak Thakkar, sgi Phillips Kuhl, Cambridge Healthtech Institute Sponsors Sponsors generously underwriting the 2009 Best Practices Awards are Tessella, BlueArc Co...

UK's Institute of Cancer Research and Silicon Graphics Establish Long-Term Alliance to Design and Outfit World-Class Network Biology Lab

...lti-year collaboration, Silicon Graphics, Inc . ( sgi ) (Nasdaq: SGIC ) today announced it will provid...SGIC ), is a leader in high-performance computing. sgi delivers a complete range of high-performance serv...veries, innovation and information transformation. sgi solutions help customers solve their computing cha...

J. Craig Venter Institute Researchers Publish Significant Advance in Genome Assembly Technology

...ssence turning yeast into a genetic factory for specifically designed and optimized processes. This advance is being used by scientists at the company sgi in making next generation biofuels and biochemicals more efficiently. "We continue to be amazed by the capacity of yeast to simultaneously t...

AMDL, Inc. Retains Strategic Growth International Inc. as its Global Investor Relations Advisor

... Company in growing its financial market presence. sgi will assist the Company in establishing a stronger...trong communications is imperative to our success. sgi has a strong reputation with an exceptional team a...nual sales consecutively over the next 3 years." sgi Co-Founder Rich Cooper also commented saying, "We ...

SGI Breakthrough Technology Empowers Genome Center Research Around the World

... sgi Servers and Storage Systems Fuel Faster Time to Di... that plague mankind, breakthrough technology from sgi (Nasdaq: SGIC ) is powering research in genome ce...ter time to discovery. "Exciting combinations of sgi technology enable bioscientists to achieve genome ...

SGI, Introduces Powerful High End Visualization Tools

...med Product of the Year by Linux Journal Magazine, sgi rolled out the latest version of its popular visu...point on a yeah, right wish list. In the Tezro, sgi says, it offers a workstation designed for creativ...e desktop. In other words, just the kind of people sgi wants poring over its product specs to purchase a ...

Chippewa Valley Draws Defense Dollars

... a prototype high-performance computer for the Naval Research Lab, as well as $5 million for improvements to Air Force F-16 flight simulators that use sgi computers. "If finalized, this funding would further boost the growing role of Chippewa Valley companies in producing cutting edge tools for our arm...

SGI banking on Altix to pay the freight

...ssors by October, the company reported last month. sgi also recently announced plans to extend the scalability of its sgi Altix 3000 servers to a record 128 processors with... Biomedicine at Cornell University. Back in April, sgi announced it would be selling the UK COSMOS consor...

Cray Rides Again

...ut the 1980s, the market for supercomputers dwindled and the company was purchased by Silicon Graphics Corp . (SGI) in 1996. A variety of factors led sgi to sell Cray in 2000, about three years after engineers began developing what was to become the X1. (SGI maintains its own huge presence in Chippewa F...

Former SGI/Cray Team Develops Products for G5 Platform

...a misnomer for the latest group of former Cray and sgi employees to brave the market and launch a new tec...rmer Cray employee, was one of a handful of former sgi engineers with 64-bit computing experience, laid o...hit the market. We were aware there were heavy sgi layoffs coming, Seeber said. We started looking fo...

SGIs Wisconsin branch builds fastest supercomputer yet in four months

...Wisconsin, plant that pulled the project together. sgi announced the completion of the $50 million projec...Columbia supercomputer was based on the use of the sgi Altix power node at NASA. Since the node had been so successful, NASA officials contracted sgi to build 19 more for a full system, believing that...

SGI layoffs affect 33 at Chippewa Falls plant

... talented employees. In addition to these cuts, sgi also announced in a press release the resignations...Jeff Zellmer and COO Warren Pratt, who are leaving sgi to pursue personal interests. SGI's corporate cont...et in four months UW-Madison picks scalable sgi computer to simulate weather ...

SGI receives court approval for bankruptcy motions

...f products and services to customers. On May 8, sgi and its domestic U.S. subsidiaries filed voluntary...dance with terms of existing supplier agreements." sgi also indicated that new product plans would continue to move forward. "This approval will enable sgi to operate globally and meet normal business oblig...

Chippewa Valley firms land more defense work

...ike being there," Bartolone said. Bartolone also explained that SGI's long-term relationships with organizations like the NRL are vital. This year, sgi could receive another $5 million to advance processors at the NRL Laboratory Center for Computational Science and $2 million to push its simulator tec...

Rocket docket speeds patent infringement suits

...The company recently filed suit against ATI Technologies , alleging the popular maker of computer graphics chips infringed a computer graphics patent sgi has been licensing to ATI's competitors. SGI filed suit just days after coming out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The complaint seeks unspeci...

Real-Time Quantification of Genomic DNA Using DyNAzyme II DNA Polymerase and SYBR Green I Dye

...ive for many applications 4 . sgi is a dsDNA binding dye that has proven exceptional...sitive nucleic acid detection. The fluorescence of sgi is enhanced approximately 1000-fold upo... for detection of amplification products. Because sgi binds to all dsDNA, it does not have to...

Monitoring Microbial Populations Using Real-Time qPCR on the MJ Research Opticon 2 System

... All DNA samples were analyzed in triplicate. Volumes of individual components and final reaction concentrations are listed in Table 1. sgi was from Molecular Probes (S-7567). MasterAmp PCR premix F was from Epicentre Technologies (MHF-925F). AmpliTaq was from Applied...

Detection of Genetically Modified Soybean in Processed Foods Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR with SYBR Green I Dye on the DNA Engine Opticon 2 System

...n to 0.5% (w/w) concentration in foods. The use of sgi for detection makes this protocol readi...II DNA polymerase* was from Finnzymes (F-503L) and sgi was from Molecular Probes (P-7589). Rea...ations are listed in Table 1. sgi was obtained at 10,000X concentration and was dilu...