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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ARMONK, NY - 21 Nov 2007: The world’s most powerful line of supercomputers — IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) Blue Gene family - is by far the most energy-efficient, according to a new ranking of the TOP500 computers.

The inaugural Green500 list ranks by energy efficiency the machines that make the overall TOP500 list of the world’s fastest computers. The new Green500 list shows IBM Blue Gene supercomputers capturing 26 of the top 27 spots.

The Green500 list is overseen by two professors at Virginia Tech, Kirk Cameron and Wu Feng. “The Green500 List is intended to serve as a ranking of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world and as a complementary view to the Top500 List,” Feng said in a press release.

IBM supercomputers also led on the recently-released TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list, which ranks the world’s most powerful supercomputers. According to the TOP500 list, the IBM Blue Gene/L at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is the world’s fastest supercomputer, capable of delivering a sustained performance of 478 trillion calculations per second (478 “teraflops”). IBM also placed a total of 232 supercomputers on the list, the most of any vendor.

RENO, Nev. - 12 November 2007: HP today announced that it placed two systems in the top five of the TOP500 Supercomputer list, which catalogs the world’s 500 most powerful installed technical and commercial computer systems.

In addition, HP secured one-third of the implementations on the list to maintain its ranking as a leading provider of supercomputing systems.

The HP-based Computational Research Laboratories system was the largest Asia Pacific-based system on the TOP500 and No. 4 worldwide. An HP-based system for a Swedish government agency was the fifth largest worldwide.

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Mountain View, Calif. & Armonk, N.Y. - 08 Oct 2007: Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced an initiative to promote new software development methods which will help students and researchers address the challenges of internet-scale applications in the future.

The goal of this initiative is to improve computer science students’ knowledge of highly parallel computing practices to better address the emerging paradigm of large-scale distributed computing. IBM and Google are teaming up to provide hardware, software and services to augment university curricula and expand research horizons. With their combined resources, the companies hope to lower the financial and logistical barriers for the academic community to explore this emerging model of computing.

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 28, 2007: HP today announced that Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will use its technology to build one of the world’s most powerful high-performance computing (HPC) systems designed to accelerate research in the environmental molecular sciences.

The new system will provide the computing engine to advance research in support of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) mission in the fields of energy, the environment and national security. PNNL is one of the DOE’s 10 national laboratories managed by its Office of Science.

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PALO ALTO, California, 27 June 2007 - HP today announced that it ranks as the No. 1 supercomputing provider on the TOP500 Supercomputer list, which catalogs the world’s 500 most powerful installed technical and commercial computer systems.

With 203 entries, representing more than 40 percent of the posted sites, HP has more installations on the TOP500 list than any other vendor.

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