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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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
InternetNews September 18, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Cray Launches a 'Consumer' Supercomputer The high performance computer is the size of a small refrigerator and packs nearly a teraflop of computing power. Best of all, it won't cost seven - or even six - figures.
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 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.
InternetNews November 17, 2005 David Needle	Intel Developer Tools Target Clusters Intel released five software development tools for the creation of distributed applications used in high-performance computing clusters.
InternetNews November 24, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Windows Ekes Out a Presence in Supercomputing Only five of the top 500 supercomputers in the world run Windows, but it's a start. Microsoft lays out its strategy for the high-performance computing market.
Linux Journal June 2000 Linley Gwennap	Linley on Linux The new Intel chip promises to take the PC to the high-end server market. Will Linux go along?
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 September 29, 2006 Andy Patrizio	Itanium Picks Up Momentum, Supporters The Itanium Solutions Alliance held its first Itanium Solutions Summit this week to discuss the growth of Itanium 2-based solutions. The newest supporter of the ISA is Oracle.
Unix Insider January 2001 Tom Yager, InfoWorld Test Center	Six Unix OS flavors run the gamut Since its inception, Unix has evolved into many different versions. Are your eggs in the right basket? Here the InfoWorld technical director looks at six commercial Unix variants, and gives each an overall score to illustrate how healthy each is for work in the enterprise...
InternetNews December 8, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Multi-Core a Drag on Some HPCs Turns out throwing more cores at certain high performance computing tasks can make the situation worse.
InternetNews November 17, 2008 Andy Patrizio	AMD, HP Nab Wins in Supercomputer Rankings While AMD gets the top spots and HP surpasses IBM as the largest hardware provider, Intel continues to dominate the latest TOP500 list.
InternetNews November 25, 2009	Europe Jumps Into HPC Fray With Aurora A company known for wearable PCs comes out with its own supercomputer design. What does it have that IBM and HP doesn't?
Bio-IT World March 17, 2004	High-Performance Computing Life science companies are solving big problems with home-grown clusters, racks of blades, and gangs of PCs working overtime.
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.
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.
InternetNews July 18, 2006 David Needle	Itanium, Take Two Intel is set to unveil the dual-core "Montecito" version of its troubled Itanium processor line at an event in San Francisco today.
InternetNews November 20, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Dell, nVidia Make Their Presence Known in HPC Two companies not normally associated with high performance computing emerge as players at the annual supercomputing show.
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 26, 2006 David Needle	A $10B Dollar Bet on Itanium Despite false starts, computer makers and Intel tout the chip's prospects and announce plans to spend a collective $10 billion to help drive adoption of systems based on the Itanium platform.
InternetNews January 23, 2004 Alexander Wolfe	Linux Poised for Desktop, High-End Surge LinuxWorld touted the progress of open-source in the enterprise app market, but consensus also emerged that low-end desktops and high-end multi-processing systems aren't far behind.
Wall Street & Technology March 19, 2007 Penny Crosman	The High-Speed Arms Race on Wall Street Is Leading Firms to Tap High-Performance Computing Citigroup, Wachovia, Mellon and other major Wall Street firms seeking to take their high-performance computing grids to the next level are considering new products.
The Motley Fool June 23, 2009 Anders Bylund	Is Intel Eating AMD's Supercomputing Lunch? Supercomputers don't change all that much in design -- but Intel is stealing serious market share in the fastest and most expensive market segment out there.
InternetNews June 23, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft High on Performance Microsoft will be joining the supercomputer game when it serves up Windows Server 2003, high-performance edition.
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 18, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner	High-Performance Computing Getting Higher A new IDC study shows high-performance server growth is up by 30 percent.
Bio-IT World July 2005 Salvatore Salamone	Visualize This An attractive combination of features -- high performance, component standardization, and the ability to access large amounts of memory -- is making new visualization systems appealing for many computationally intensive biomedical applications.
InternetNews March 25, 2004 Clint Boulton	IBM Edges Out Dell, EMC for Research Cluster Big Blue will provide servers and storage to a university researching cures for major diseases.
InternetNews March 9, 2006 David Needle	Itanium Alliance Invests in Linux In a collaboration with Gelato, the Itanium Solutions Alliance said it's giving money to help optimize open source compilers for Linux-based Itanium platforms.
InternetNews June 21, 2004 Sean Michael Kerner	Supercomputer Champ Remains (For Now) Japan's NEC still sits atop the annual list of machines with processing powers greater than 1 teraflop, whatever that is.
InternetNews November 12, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Sun Fires Up Supercomputer Cluster Quad-core Opterons in hand, Sun has begun building a 521 teraflop supercomputer cluster.
InternetNews August 3, 2004 Clint Boulton	IBM Inks Another Deal with DoD The systems vendor scores another multi-million-dollar contract to provide a Linux supercomputer for the defense department for the planning and creation of military defense systems.
InternetNews September 27, 2004 Michael Singer	HP Dumps 64-bit Interests The computer maker said a lack of Windows applications helped its decision to dump its investment in 64-bit workstations.
InternetNews April 6, 2005 Clint Boulton	IBM Supercomputer to Help Volvo Avert Crashes The systems vendor will provide Volvo with 150 servers to perform crash simulations. The system is expected to become one of the automotive industry's fastest Linux clusters, based on systems listed on the Top500 Supercomputer list.
InternetNews October 3, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner	Red Hat Takes on HPC Market, Microsoft With Linux already dominating the HPC space, Red Hat thinks something is still missing.
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 August 24, 2009	Platform Computing in HPC Play With HP's Help Purchase of HP's MPI (Message Passing Interface) technology will advance Platform Computing's high performance computing push.
InternetNews June 22, 2005 Clint Boulton	IBM's Blue Gene Tops Supercomputer List Six of the top 10 world's fastest supercomputers are made by IBM. Intel chips and clusters are the top architectures.
InternetNews February 17, 2006 David Needle	Itanium on the Grow? IDC reports high customer satisfaction and solid intent-to-purchase ratings for Itanium-based systems.
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Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005	Sikorsky Designs Helicopters with SGI Servers Engineers will use the SGI computers to analyze digital prototypes in computer-generated wind tunnels and battle scenarios. Sikorsky deployed the SGI solutions to support computer-aided engineering design and analyses of current and future aircraft.