Itanium Solutions Alliance Selects Sweden's Kiwok as the 2009 Innovation Awards Winner for Humanitarian Impact

...ion system that integrates 1,600 applications actively used by more than 43,000 students, teachers and other staff into a uniform Web environment. SGI altix servers running on Itanium processors host tools utilized for online enrollment, e-learning modules, as well as applications allowing students to make...

SGI Introduces the SGI BioCluster Life Sciences Workflow Solution

... SGI altix XE Cluster with eXludus Grid Optimizer Delivers 90... percent acceleration on BLASTn, compared to a SGI altix XE cluster using PBS Pro only. "The high perform...e another and the scalable architecture of the SGI altix XE," said Benoit Marchand, founder and CEO of eXlu...

Altix in Medical Technology

Universite de Montreal Researchers Simulate World's Largest Heart Model Using SGI Technology

... 1.2TB SGI altix Shared Memory System Runs 'Heart Model of the Futu...ntel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors running on the SGI altix which, as part of the Quebec Network for High-Perf...st detailed heart model ever, using the entire SGI altix system and 1.2TB of shared memory. Originally writ...

Altix in Biological News

Strange molecule in the sky cleans acid rain, scientists discover

... techniques at the University of Pennsylvania and the supercomputing resources available at Purdue, Francisco says. The computation was done on an SGI altix supercomputer operated by the Office of Information Technology at Purdue. "The key is knowing where to look and how to identify new chemical entiti...

World's biggest heart model simulated at Université de Montréal

... The computer on which the simulation was performed, a 768-processor SGI altix 4700, is the largest shared-memory computing system in Canada. Operated by ... In late October, Potse and Vinet had the opportunity to use the entire SGI altix system and its1.2TB of shared memory to solve the largest, most detailed he...

Altix in Biological Technology

SGI banking on Altix to pay the freight

New flagship supercomputer relies on off-the-shelf chips, open-source OS Chippewa Falls, Wis.This is crunch time for Silicon Graphics Corp. (SGI) in more ways than one. As the companys sprawling manufacturing plant here scrambles to push product out the back door in the final days of its f...

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

...ww.sgi.com . Note : The main number for SGI corporate headquarters is 408-524-1980. (C) 2009 SGI. All rights reserved. SGI, the SGI cube, altix and the SGI logo are registered trademarks of SGI in the United States and/or other countries worldwide. Intel, Xeon and Itanium are trademarks or r...

SGI Breakthrough Technology Empowers Genome Center Research Around the World

...alyzing large gene expression datasets on the SGI Altix system. "On SGI's altix machines, we have used MPI parallel programming libraries and Intel's icc c...n actively involved in developing and benchmarking several tools on the SGI altix systems. "Benchmarks run on Melanoma gene expression dataset consisting of ...

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 LO...

SGI, Introduces Powerful High End Visualization Tools

...its industry accolades, dont think for a moment that Silicon Graphics Inc. (better known as SGI) is sitting on its laurels. Three days before its altix 3000 family of servers and superclusters were named Product of the Year by Linux Journal Magazine, SGI rolled out the latest version of its popular v...

SGIs Wisconsin branch builds fastest supercomputer yet in four months

...pace shuttle that crashed last year, runs on SGIs altix 3700 systems and 10,240 Intel Itanium 2 processors. Using 16 of its 20 installed altix systems, the computer can perform a record 42.7 te...mbia supercomputer was based on the use of the SGI altix power node at NASA. Since the node had been so suc...

UW-Madison picks scalable SGI computer to simulate weather

...begun testing its weather forecast data using the altix 3700 supercomputer offered by Silicon Graphics I...istant researcher at CIMSS, the institute chose an altix computer because of its need for more memory and d...nd 192 gigabytes of memory. SGI built NASA an altix computer, briefly the fastest in the world, in abo...

SGI layoffs affect 33 at Chippewa Falls plant

...ll be to consolidate its compute server and visualization platform and pursue new markets in the enterprise space. They will also expand their line of altix servers with systems based on the new line of dual-core Intel Itanium 2 "Montecito" processors, and oversee the installations of the 4,096-processor s...

SGI receives court approval for bankruptcy motions

...lization platform, the pursuit of new markets, and expansion of its line of altix servers. Among the Wisconsin plant's signature achievements is its role ...named Columbia after the space shuttle that exploded in 2003, runs on SGI's altix 3700 systems and 10,240 Intel Itanium 2 processors. The purpose of the mach...