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DENVER, CO -- SGI (NYSE: SGI) will showcase what the company refers to as “the most powerful high-performance solutions at any price point” at SuperComputing 2001 (SC2001). A leading provider of high-performance computing, complex data management and visualization products, solutions and services, SGI will feature guest speakers, new product previews and demonstrations of customer applications at the show, taking place at the Denver Convention Complex, Nov. 12-16. ``With the demise of the dot-coms, attention has swung away from commodity-based computing to providing supercomputing performance at cost-effective prices,'' said Jan Silverman, SGI senior vice president, marketing. ``Once again SGI proves its leadership in the industry by showing our recently launched, low-priced, NUMA-based midrange server and our OpenGL Vizserver solution, bringing collaborative visualization capabilities to SGI Reality Center facilities and workstations.'' SGI's SC2001 activities spotlight technologies and solutions whose applications range from sciences, energy and manufacturing to media, defense and intelligence. High-performance computing: A scalable SGI(TM) Origin(TM) 3400 system with eight InfiniteReality3(TM) graphics subsystems will run a series of scalable engineering analysis and scientific visualization applications. The new SGI(TM) Origin(TM) 300 server and SGI(TM) TP900 storage system will be demonstrated, running applications for weather prediction, bioinformatics, engineering analysis and defense. The NUMA-based midrange SGI Origin 300 server brings the power and performance of the SGI(TM) Origin(TM) 3000 series to new price points while retaining the modular nature of the SGI(TM) Origin(TM) line. The industry's highest-performance networking technology cluster, the SGI Gigabyte System Network(TM), will be shown as part of a number of HPC and complex data management solutions. Also on hand will be the Silicon Graphics® 750 system, the first offering in the Silicon Graphics® family of Itanium(TM) processor-based products for the Linux® operating system. This workstation incorporates state-of-the-art Intel® 64-bit architecture, open-source Linux software and numerical libraries optimized for SGI, setting a new standard for high- performance Linux computing. Customers and featured speakers: Dr. Tom Abel, professor, University of Cambridge Institute of Astronomy, will discuss a demonstration involving SGI, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Professor Stephen Hawking's Cosmology Laboratory at Cambridge University. The power of collaborative visualization grid technologies will be highlighted when Silicon Graphics® Onyx® family visualization systems at Cambridge, NCSA and the SGI booth are linked via a grid in a collaborative session during which data generated in Cambridge will be analyzed by researchers at the other sites. SGI Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Dr. Eng Lim Goh, a specialist in both high-performance computing architectures and computer graphics algorithms, will present the SGI supercomputing strategy each afternoon from Tuesday through Thursday. A 35-seat SGI(TM) Reality Center(TM) visualization system theater will play host to supercomputing demonstrations from such customers as the NASA Ames Research Center, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, University of Manchester (Manchester, U.K.) and Ford Motor Co., among many others. Visualization: Defense, intelligence and homeland security demonstrations will include customer satellite imagery of Afghanistan. Oil and gas, medical imaging, automobile design and pharmaceutical discovery applications of the OpenGL Vizserver(TM) solution, bringing the power of large visualization systems to the desktop, will be demonstrated. The ultimate in interactive performance, a new SGI(TM) scalable graphics technology featuring more than 70 million triangles per second of interactive performance to visualize large problems will be previewed. The SGI booth also previews the dual-head graphics configuration for Silicon Graphics® Octane2(TM) workstation, an innovative display technology for the Silicon Graphics Octane2 visual workstation offering optimum visualization for geophysical, manufacturing, medical and scientific applications over multiple monitors. The technology is built on a combination of the VPro(TM) V12 graphics subsystem, the most advanced desktop graphics available today, and a unique implementation of SGI display capabilities. Complex data management: SGI's expertise in storage and complex data management will be demonstrated with CXFS(TM), the industry's highest-performance shared filesystem for IRIX® and Solaris(TM) operating systems. CXFS is being used to share information between visualization and serving demonstrations throughout the booth. SGI will also be demonstrating next-generation SAN technology, a complete 2Gb SAN fabric both connecting servers, storage arrays and tape libraries and managing movement of terabytes of data using SGI(TM) Data Migration Facility, the industry-leading hierarchical storage management system. For additional information visit www.sgi.com