SGI to provide supercomputer to NASA

Telecomworldwire, May 7, 2008

TELECOMWORLDWIRE-7 May 2008-SGI to provide supercomputer to NASA(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com

SGI (Nasdaq: SGIC), a provider of high-performance computing, announced on Tuesday (6 May) that NASA has selected the company to supply its next major supercomputer, a 20,480-core SGI Altix ICE system.

The new SGI system will reportedly be installed this summer in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at Ames Research Centre in Silicon Valley, California, USA.

The supercomputer will be capable of generating 245 trillion operations per second (Teraflops). It is powered by the latest Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors, and will feature over 20,800GB of system memory.

NASA also will deploy a next-generation SGI InfiniteStorage InfiniBand disk solution capable of storing and managing 450TB of data. The installation also includes an 115TB SGI InfiniteStorage NEXIS Network Attached Storage solution.

SGI said that the new system will aid in NASA's plans to resume manned missions to the moon, and eventually manned exploration of Mars. In addition to space exploration, the new SGI supercomputer will support NASA's aeronautics, science and space operations initiatives.

Financial details were not available.

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