SGI Ranks Among Bio-IT World's Coveted Bio-IT 50
SGI Selected by Bio-IT World Editors as One of the Technology Providers Without Which Biopharma Couldn't Exist
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID) today announced that it was selected by Bio-IT World editors as one of 50 companies that have driven and continue to drive the future of biomedical research and drug discovery. The Bio-IT World Bio-IT 50 identifies top sciences firms that provide the most indispensable and enabling technologies to the life sciences field.
'Bio-IT World's Bio-IT 50 recognizes the advances being made by today's technology providers to the fields of bio- and health-IT, and the contributions their products and services make to biomedical research and drug discovery,' said Kevin Davies, Ph.D. and editor-in-chief, Bio-IT World. 'The contributions of all the companies on the elite list of 50, underscore the promise of continued advancement in bio-sciences through the use of information technology, informatics and life science technologies.'
Insightful research decisions and discoveries don't happen without great tools. Today's research environment demands the power and flexibility of scalable compute servers, high-performance storage and visualization together with robust and leading-edge application software.
After more than two decades, SGI continues to deliver innovative solutions and domain expertise that enable computational biologists and bioinformaticists to run a wide range of applications with industry-leading performance. Whether the research includes gene sequence analysis, cluster comparisons, homology modeling, Hidden Markhov Models, or genetic algorithms, SGI offers the leading industry-standard tools -- built on the Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processor and Linux(R) operating system -- to provide the most cost-effective and performance-proven environments for running these applications.
'We're honored to be among such an impressive group of technology leaders and we thank Bio-IT World for acknowledging the contribution of SGI solutions,' said Afshad Mistri, senior manager of scientific markets, SGI. 'SGI high-performance computing, visualization and storage solutions are assisting leading research institutions and scientists around the world to treat and potentially prevent some of the most lethal illnesses.'
Amber, BLAST(R), FASTA(TM) (Smith- Waterman), GAMESS US, Gaussian(R), HMMER, and NAMD are among the many widely used computational chemistry and computational biology software tools that are available for use on the SGI(R) Altix(R) family of 64-bit servers and superclusters, a testimony to the rapidity with which Altix has been embraced by the life and chemical sciences community.
SGI customers are among the 'who's who' in the life sciences field including Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's (MSKCC) Computational Biology Center, Merck, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), which received the Bio-IT World Best Practices Award for Data and Image Analysis using SGI systems in July 2005.
To view the Bio-IT World Bio-IT 50 complete list visit www.bio-itworld.com/issues/2006/march/cover-story-bioit-50/ and for more information about SGI life and chemical sciences solutions visit www.sgi.com/industries/sciences/chembio/.
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SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc. (OTC: SGID), is a leader in high-performance computing. SGI helps customers solve their computing challenges, whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil more efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland security and defense, enabling the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, or helping enterprises manage large data. With offices worldwide, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and can be found on the Web at www.sgi.com.
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Source: PR Newswire (April 6, 2006 - 9:01 AM EDT)
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