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InternetNews July 28, 2004 Clint Boulton	SGI Aims High with NASA Deal SGI's Space Exploration Simulator supercomputer is one of the largest Linux systems ever assembled, with 10,240 Intel Itanium processors.
InternetNews October 27, 2004 Michael Singer	SGI Takes Off With NASA Supercomputer NASA's "Columbia" uses 10,240 Intel Itanium-2 chips to best IBM's Blue Gene/L and NEC's Earth Simulator.
InternetNews January 11, 2007 Clint Boulton	SGI to Resell Microsoft Server Goods SGI has agreed to offer Microsoft's high-performance computing operating system on its cluster servers, a deal geared to boost both companies' sales in the HPC space.
InternetNews March 17, 2010	SGI Joins Xeon Lovefest With Origin Revival SGI, the vendor that grew out of Rackable Systems' acquisition of Silicon Graphics, has hopped on the Xeon bandwagon with a new line of x86 servers based on Intel's new Westmere technology.
InternetNews March 25, 2011	SGI Breaks Another Windows Record New certifications may give SGI a leg up on slower competitors as the company pushes running hundreds of physical cores on Windows Server.
InternetNews April 25, 2005 Clint Boulton	SGI Has 'Eagle' Eye for DoD's Defense SGI has sold the U.S. Department of Defense a supercomputer to help the agency simulate aircraft, weapon systems and battlefield scenarios more accurately than ever before.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2008 Courtney E. Howard	NASA, Intel, and SGI upgrade supercomputer, expand compute capabilities Experts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Washington, Intel Corp. in Santa Clara, Calif., and SGI in Sunnyvale, Calif., are working toward significant increases in the computing performance and capacity of the space agency's supercomputer.
InternetNews May 8, 2006 Michael Hickins	SGI Seeks Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Silicon Graphics expects to reemerge from Chapter 11 quickly, but current shares will be worthless under the plan.
Linux Journal January 15, 2003 Steve Neuner	Scaling Linux to New Heights: the SGI Altix 3000 System With 64 processors and 512GB of memory, SGI claims the title of world's most powerful Linux system.
InternetNews June 24, 2004 Paul Shread	PNNL, SGI Think Big The Department of Energy lab and SGI collaborate on a project to shift computation of large data to storage devices.
InternetNews December 28, 2007 Andy Patrizio	SGI: Still Alive And Kicking SGI, the one-time darling of the special effects industry is now repurposed for supercomputing - and this might be the market that works.
InternetNews March 3, 2006 Clint Boulton	SGI Cuts 250 Jobs, CFO, COO Hungry to return to profitability after hemorrhaging cash for years, Silicon Graphics today said it would trim 250 positions and announced key management changes as part of a corporate restructuring.
National Defense March 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy's Acquisition Methods Slow Down Deployment of Undersea Robots The Navy recently experienced sticker shock when estimates for a robotic mine-hunting vehicle came in at more than $12 million apiece, or 51 percent higher than expected.
InternetNews March 16, 2011	SGI Lays Claims to Largest Windows Configuration for HPC The SGI system was certified with 128 cores and 1 TB of memory, but there's more to come, the company says.
National Defense November 2014 Valerie Insinna	Shipbuilders Bet on Radical Hull Designs to Defeat Swarming Boat Threat There is a need for a highly, highly stabilized craft that are not large, that are smaller, that can be used to patrol and defend the Navy's ships while they're in troubled waters against high-speed boats.
The Motley Fool December 7, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer	Another Sign That Recovery Is for Real To gauge recovery, we can listen to what companies are saying, or we can take a look at what those companies are actually doing.
National Defense December 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Sailors Move From Classrooms To Shipboard Simulators The U.S. Navy will be plowing millions of dollars into new simulators that will be used aboard ships, rather than ashore, to help sailors acquire specialized skills before they depart on a mission
InternetNews January 21, 2004 Clint Boulton	InfiniBand Firms Eye High-Performance Computing InfiniCon and Voltaire issue InfiniBand announcements that show traction in the high-performance computing arena.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008 Courtney E. Howard	LSI Upgrades Sandia Supercomputer with Storage Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories are upgrading Red Storm, one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, with high-performance storage.
Bio-IT World June 2006 Steven Withrow	SUNY-SGI Collaboration Yields AIDS Breakthrough Working on an SGI Altix system located at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, researchers recently modeled how HIV protease works across time, which the team hopes will lead to more targeted medicines to interfere with virus development.
IEEE Spectrum February 2005 Erico Guizzo	IBM Reclaims Supercomputer Lead The new breed of supercomputers brings technology advances that may ultimately trickle down to a variety of high-performance computers, thus benefiting not only big-bucks buyers like the Energy Department and NASA but many other organizations in need of serious computing horsepower.
InternetNews April 1, 2009 Andy Patrizio	Rackable Picks Up SGI for a Bargain Price The once-mighty Unix vendor gets sold for less than some of the supercomputers it sells.
Bio-IT World October 14, 2004 Robert Mcmillan	High-Performance Computing: Muscle in the Middle New processor designs are giving a price/performance boost to midrange Unix servers.
InternetNews April 15, 2004 Clint Boulton	SGI Sheds Graphics Software Business Server company, looking for market share in the burgeoning Linux space, unloads high end graphics software unit.
National Defense March 2012 Eric Beidel	Navy Leaders Want a More Flexible Fleet After fighting two land wars for a decade, the military is putting an emphasis back on the sea and is shifting its focus to the Asia-Pacific region and to a more maritime-weighted mission in the Middle East.
National Defense April 2007 Scott C. Truver	Mines, Improvised Explosives: A Threat to Global Commerce? The United States confronts the formidable task of protecting some 95,000 miles of coastlines and thousands of miles of inland waterways, including 361 ports.
National Defense April 2008 Grace Jean	Diesel-Electric Submarines, the U.S. Navy's Latest Annoyance Nations in the western Pacific have begun to acquire stealthy diesel-electric submarines, which could one day threaten U.S. access to strategic coastal areas of the world or interrupt the flow of commerce around the globe.
National Defense April 2012 Antoine Martin	U.S. Expands Use Of Underwater Unmanned Vehicles There are today an estimated 450 underwater unmanned vehicles in the U.S. military inventory.
InternetNews June 22, 2009 Andy Patrizio	SGI Targets Mid-Market With New Storage Play High density storage device will handle up to 60 drives, both platter and SSD-based, for 90TB of storage.
National Defense June 2009 Matthew Rusling	Gliders Will Aid Naval Research The Navy will acquire underwater gliders to boost its oceanographic research efforts and to help improve the positioning of fleets during naval maneuvers.
National Defense August 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Inefficient Shipbuilding Jeopardizes Navy's Expansion Goals The Navy owns 277 ships, but somehow manages to keep 551 different engines in its inventory. Such inefficients partly explain why the cost of buying and maintaining ships has spiraled out of control.
National Defense November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Technology Spending Will Target Current and Future Navy Fleet The Navy should direct its future science, research and technology spending to both improving the current fleet and designing next-generation systems, officials say.
National Defense November 2006 Grace Jean	Navy Leaders to Articulate Current and Future Missions Recent efforts by the Navy to deploy forces for ground combat and engage in other non-traditional duties are signs that the service intends to be relevant in the U.S. war on terrorism.
National Defense September 2005 Robert H. Williams	Air Force Claims Fastest Computer in Defense Scientists at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, say they have one of the fastest supercomputers on the planet. The new Eagle computer is ranked 17th in speed worldwide. The system could be helpful across the Defense Department.
National Defense April 2006 Grace Jean	Plans to Expand Fleet May Be Unrealistic Amid assurances by the Navy leadership that the latest shipbuilding blueprint is on a safe course, several analysts are sounding alarms. Unless the Navy begins to aggressively cut costs from its shipbuilding programs and pump much more money into these accounts, the plan could fail.
National Defense November 2015 Jon Harper	Navy Working on 'Sci-Fi' Weapons The Navy's research-and-development dollars are going toward systems that will help the service stay ahead of advanced weaponry being developed by China and other potential adversaries.
National Defense March 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy Downsizing Force to Pay for New Ships The desired expansion of the fleet--from 292 to about 375 ships--would be financed largely with cutbacks in personnel.
InternetNews February 13, 2004 Michael Singer	SGI is Shedding its Alias The company talks with a private investment firm about selling its 3D graphics division.
National Defense July 2004 Roxana Tiron	Lack of Specificity in Navy Shipbuilding Plans Irks the Industry Frustrated by perpetual fluctuations in U.S. Navy shipbuilding budgets, industry leaders are asking for funding stability.
InternetNews February 15, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	SGI Gets Deeper Into Linux Networx Barely out of bankruptcy itself Silicon Graphics acquired troubled high-performance computing vendor Linux Networx.
National Defense March 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Navy Seeks to Avert Precipitous Decline in the Size of the Fleet An ambitious Navy plan to expand the size of the fleet not only assumes a considerable surge in spending, but also a fundamental shift in the preparation and execution of ship programs, senior officials say.
Bio-IT World December 15, 2004 Salvatore Salamone	IBM, SGI Earn Top Bragging Rights at SC2004 Conference BlueGene/L and Altix 1.5GHz, Infiniband place first and second respectively on the Top 500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. However, bioscience problems remain.