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Xcelerix Technologies, developer of XcelerixT IMDB, the "world's fastest database" and database accelerator, announced a strategic alliance with Silicon Graphics to provide the Xcelerix IMDB on the SGI Altix family of servers. Xcelerix Technologies and SGI are cooperating on engineering, marketing and sales for the Intel Itanium 2-based Altix servers running Xcelerix IMDB on Linux (SLES 9) to accelerate high-performance, real-time database applications. The Xcelerix IMDB and database accelerator, available now to SGI Altix users, is a patented, breakthrough database technology designed for high performance computing (HPC) applications where unprecedented speed in real-time data driven performance is crucial. Installed in hundreds of applications since 1994, Xcelerix has tested magnitudes faster (in some cases up to 100-1000x) than traditional, disk-based databases on SGI Altix systems with up to 120 GB databases containing up to 500 Million records. Complementing SGI leadership in global shared memory systems for massive, complex databases, Xcelerix IMDB situates high speed data management in the data stream, providing real-time performance, while integrating with traditional, relational databases for disk-based operations. "The combination of Xcelerix IMDB on the 64-bit Itanium 2 processor-based SGI Altix family of servers presents a unique solution for dramatically increasing the speed of high performance computing applications," said Helen Charov, CEO of Xcelerix Technologies, "With Xcelerix database acceleration, Altix users can become more productive sooner and see their results faster by several orders of magnitude, even with massive databases. We are excited to announce this breakthrough capability and we're looking forward to introducing it to SGI Altix users today and at the Supercomputing 2004 show in Pittsburgh in early November." The Xcelerix IMDB was originally developed for applications controlling manufacturing processes requiring real-time data analysis at Ford, Litton, Honeywell and other Fortune 500 companies, where it is installed in hundreds of sites worldwide. The patented database architecture has also been utilized in telecom softswitch applications at Lucent and Orange UK. With the advent of 64-bit computing, capable of addressing virtually limitless memory as in the SGI Altix series, Xcelerix can now provide breakthrough in-memory database management, with reliable, consistent performance at unrivaled benchmarked speeds (over 2.5M TPS). Since its launch in 2003, the SGI Altix family of servers and supercomputers has led the market in global shared memory systems and has been adopted by close to 700 customers in over 600 sites worldwide. The Xcelerix IMDB is now available directly from Xcelerix Technologies to SGI Altix users for physical and life sciences, manufacturing analysis, simulation, government and defense markets, digital content management, and other engineering, scientific, and creative high performance computing applications requiring real-time operations and data management.