silicon graphics internation (SGI) Snapshot

SGI announced that the United States Department of Defense (DoD) has deployed the SGI(R) ICE(TM) X high performance computing system for its supercomputer Spirit, making it the 14(th) fastest supercomputer in the world. The SGI ICE X system has been deployed as part of the DoD's High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP), which provides compute resources for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) DoD Supercomputing Research Center (DSRC). SGI ICE X system Spirit is named after the B2 Stealth bomber and is enabling Gary Kedziora, an HPCMP PETTT Computational Materials Scientist, to implement algorithms that perform quantum mechanical simulations with computational time that scales linearly with respect to the number of atoms.

Silicon Graphics International Corp. announced that Translational Research Institute (TRI) has selected SGI to provide a big data HPC solution powered by SGI(R) UV(TM) 2000 shared memory platform, SGI(R) Rackable(R) clusters and SGI(R) InfiniteStorage(TM) to accelerate results at research centre. This new facility, which represents four leading medical research institutes, will focus on advanced treatments and therapies for common and serious disease such as cancers, diabetes, inflammatory diseases, HIV, malaria, bone and joint diseases and obesity. The Institute is destined to be the larger biomedical research institute in the Southern Hemisphere. This new facility, which represents four leading medical research institutes, will focus on advanced treatments and therapies for common and serious disease such as cancers, diabetes, inflammatory diseases, HIV, malaria, bone and joint diseases and obesity. The Institute is destined to be the larger biomedical research institute in the Southern Hemisphere. Researchers will now have access to the necessary technology and facilities in one location, which will positively impact productivity through the rate at which work is processed and scientific results are achieved. SGI's compute and data storage solution provides more than 2,200 SGI Rackable compute cores, 256 cores and 4TB of memory SGI UV 2000 and more than one petabyte of SGI InfiniteStorage high performance storage. Up to three petabytes of historical and inactive data will be stored on tape and available via SGI's DMF system.

SGI announced that NASA's Ames Research Center has selected an SGI(R) UV(TM) 2000 shared memory system to support more than a thousand active users around the country who are doing research for earth, space and aeronautics missions. Installed early this year at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at Ames, Moffett Field, Calif., Endeavour is a shared-memory system that took the place of the Columbia supercomputer.