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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- SGI (NYSE:SGI) today announced plans to support Intel's new Low Voltage Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processor at 1.0Ghz with 1.5 MB L3 cache and the Intel Itanium 2 processor at 1.4Ghz with 1.5MB L3 Cache in an upcoming model of its award-winning SGI(R) Altix(TM) family of servers and superclusters. The new Altix server, slated for availability in the first quarter of 2004, will establish a lower entry price point and extend the superior price-performance of this unique Linux(R) solution into smaller departmental and database deployments. The Linux systems, with eight dual-processor boards configured to a total 16 processor per system, will retain much of the extensive shared memory capabilities and the superior system and data management tools of larger-scale Altix(TM) 3000 systems. This range of scalability will offer customers with large databases and scalable application workloads a superior alternative to small node systems with limited capabilities and/or fixed-size midrange systems. The upcoming Altix configurations should appeal especially to technical computing customers in industries such as life sciences, automotive design, and oil and gas. In addition to the Intel(R) processors announced today, this Altix system will also support the existing 1.3GHz and 1.5GHz Intel Itanium 2 processors. "The Altix line is about scalability-the ability to scale up, down and out. With today's announcement, SGI extends the reach of the Altix product family, the Intel Itanium 2 processor, and 64-bit Linux applications," said Dave Parry, senior vice president and general manager, Server and Platform Group, SGI. "This Altix configuration will provide the performance and flexible configuration benefits SGI customers have come to expect of our products, at a price point that previously only small node clusters could adequately address."