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News digest 20 June 2008
>Start
>Primeur Live! from Dresden
>Blog
>Cray's update
>Supercomputers or Grid?
>Fujitsu - we wil be back sometime in the future
>NEC to introduce Assignable Data Buffer
>The success of SGI in 2007
>TOP500
>Argonne's supercomputer named world's fastest for open science and third overall
>Hardware
>Challenges of the Petaflops era
>The Grid
>Action needed for a grown up HPC infrastructure in Europe
>We need to build our own supercomputers
>Company news
>Fujitsu supercomputers make TOP500 list
>ADVA Optical Networking, Obsidian and Voltaire prove support for Infiniband over 50km
>EMCORE announces sampling and demo of 40 gigabit per second connects cables for high-performance computing
>IBM sets the pace for TOP500
>Voltaire and DataDirect Networks deliver native InfiniBand storage to customers worldwide
>Voltaire switches to support new Engenio 7900 HPC storage system from LSI
>Sun expands Sun Constellation System Family
>LSI Storage System brings enterprise-class availability and reliability to HPC environments
>Acceleware announces GPU based cluster solution
The success of SGI in 2007
Dresden 19 June 2008 Bill Mannel from SGI recalled the successes of the past year for SGI. The SGI Altix ICE 8200 was announced June 26th, 2007, which meant a new era in HPC computing with an innovative approach. The machine integrated the best of both worlds with up to 512 cores and 6 TFlops per rack. SGI also optimised the cooling and power efficiency. The company introduced the water-cooled coils. SGI Tempo is an innovative cluster management.
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2007 was a busy year. There were enhanced packaging options and new blade options with better performance/watt and the latest Infiniband technology for lower latency. In graphics, SGI scored excellent with the SGI Virtu. On the storage level, there was the SGI InfiniteStorage.

By the end of this year, SGI will introduce turbo-charged performance and the MPT library.

The New Mexico Computing Applications Center hosts the no. 7 system in the TOP500 List. Total in France is at no. 10. It is the no. 1 standards-based system on the list. There are systems at Exeter, Dresden, Arizona, Queensland.

SGI has over 90 customers and still counting.
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