US Army Space and Missile Defense Command Uses SGI Supercomputer For Simulation Center

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if only it was all simulated

Mountain View (SPX) May 20, 2004
Silicon Graphics saud Tuesday that Madison Research Corporation has purchased an SGI(R) Origin(R) 3900 supercomputer with 64 processors and 64 GB of system memory for the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) in Huntsville, Alabama. Financial and other terms were not disclosed.

The SGI Origin 3900 system is scheduled to be installed in second-quarter 2004 at the SMDC Simulation Center in Huntsville, AL, where it will be used to support the SMDC global mission. Madison Research Corporation is the prime contractor that operates the SMDC Simulation Center. Funding for this project is through the U.S. Department of Defense's High Performance Computing Modernization Program.

The advanced computational power of the Origin(R) system will enable engineers to develop and analyze massive amounts of computational physics and electronics data for realistic aircraft, missile, ship, spacecraft, and environment modeling and simulation.

"We are pleased that SMDC, an SGI customer for over a decade, has selected SGI technology again for this mission critical project at the SimCenter," said Bob Bishop, chairman and CEO, SGI.

"SGI builds real-time big-data machines to handle massive amounts of data generated by complex simulations and a landscape increasingly filled with digital sensors. Our high-performance systems, with their superb near real-time accuracy, support the fusion of disparate data sources, including high-frequency radar, video, and visual databases. SGI systems are uniquely suited to provide the critical compute and visualization capabilities for Missile Defense Agency programs to achieve faster decision times."

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Oak Ridge To Build New Class Of Supercomputer

Washington (SPX) May 13, 2004
Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham announced today that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will grant Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tenn., and its development partners, Cray Inc., IBM Corp. and Silicon Graphics Inc., $25 million in funding to begin to build a 50 teraflop (50 trillion calculations per second) science research supercomputer. The department selected ORNL from four proposals received from its non-weapon national labs.

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