BEIJING, and NEW ORLEANS, 88th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, SGI Booth #637 - January 21, 2008: To ensure the successful launch of China’s new polar-orbiting meteorological satellite, the China National Satellite Meteorological Center (NSMC) turned to high-performance computing (HPC) and storage solutions from SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC).

NSMC recently deployed China’s largest shared-memory computer — and the fourth most powerful computer in the country — to support the launch program for the FENGYUN-3. The SGI® Altix® system is powered by 1,280 Intel® Itanium® 2 processor cores and 4TB of shared memory. NSMC integrated the supercomputer with a 26TB SGI® InfiniteStorage solution and the SGI® InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS™.

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. - November 28, 2007: SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) today announced that its SGI® Altix® systems continue to garner honors for performance and innovation.

Earlier this month at the Supercomputing 2007 conference, a team from Canada’s University of Alberta used a 64-core, 144GB SGI® Altix® XE310 cluster to win the first-ever Cluster Challenge. In the SC07 Cluster Challenge, teams of undergraduate students assembled clusters on the SC07 exhibit floor and ran benchmarks and applications selected by industry and HPC veterans.

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DALLAS, Texas, Storage Networking World - October 18, 2007: In the quest to design the next generation of spacecraft, NASA researchers produce mountains of scientific and engineering data. The same goes for climate change studies, aeronautics analysis, and research into the earth’s atmosphere.

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NEW YORK, NY, September 26, 2007: To address explosive data growth plaguing businesses, government and research institutions, SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) today unveiled the SGI® InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS family focused on making high-performance storage technology easier to use.

At the heart of the SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS NAS family is SGI’s highly efficient XFS® file system, repurposed for NAS appliance simplicity, and SGI® InfiniteStorage Appliance Manager, a new graphical-user interface for optimizing storage resources, managing growth and allowing the set-up of base NAS configurations in less than 20 minutes.

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. (August 31, 2007) — SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) today announced verified test results that show SGI® Altix® to be the industry’s fastest, most scalable Linux® system for real-world, multi-tier applications running Oracle Database 10g. In fact, SGI delivered the best and only “All Linux” benchmark result with a medium-sized Oracle Database10g.

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. August 30, 2007 — With a new CEO at its helm, SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) completed its fiscal year 2007 with the launch of a breakthrough blade system purpose-built for high-performance computing (HPC), while racking up significant customer wins across SGI’s server and storage product lines. The company also released financial results for the Fiscal Year 2007 today.

The company’s fourth quarter, which ended June 29, was SGI’s first fiscal quarter under the leadership of Bo Ewald, who was named CEO in April. Working with SGI’s leadership and global workforce, Ewald has focused on positioning SGI for sustainable long-term growth and innovation through delivery of uniquely competitive, customer-focused solutions.

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. (June 26, 2007) — SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) today unveiled SGI® Altix® ICE, a next-generation platform that brings all the advantages of the company’s expertise in high-performance computing (HPC) to a tightly integrated, cool-running blade solution. Designed by SGI to close the growing gap between performance and user productivity, SGI® Altix® ICE 8200 is the first in a new line of bladed servers purpose-built to handle true HPC applications and large scale-out workloads.

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SUNNYVALE, Calif. (June 26, 2007) — SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) today unveiled SGI® Altix® ICE, a next-generation platform that brings all the advantages of the company’s expertise in high-performance computing (HPC) to a tightly integrated, cool-running blade solution. Designed by SGI to close the growing gap between performance and user productivity, SGI® Altix® ICE 8200 is the first in a new line of bladed servers purpose-built to handle true HPC applications and large scale-out workloads.

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