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To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (8214)	11/3/2000 2:32:55 PM
From: Srexley	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 14451

I'm trying to decipher the code that you and your friend use to communicate with one another. APIII says: "Our "SOS" stock is rocking & rolling! We have the patent to the world!!! ROTFLMAO!!!!" Then you say: "What's this 44...Serengeti? Wrong thread! Crossed 13/50 demas...she's trending up believe it or not... Step-by-step, inch-by-inch ... Huey Lewis <g>...." Not trying to sound too flippant, but what does it mean? What does it have to do with SGI? Scott

To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (8214)	11/3/2000 6:39:12 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

I posted earlier the sgi news release on Highest Ever Performance Networking Technology, Now that the trading day is over I went and read about the sgi GSN. Gigabyte System Network sgi.com This is quite amazing. Gigabyte System NetworkTM, or GSN, is the highest bandwidth and lowest latency interconnect standard, providing full duplex 6400 Megabits per second (800 Megabytes per second) of error-free, flow-controlled data transmission. How fast is that???? Well this image ,174191 bytes watman.com would truly transfer in the blink of an sgi eye. what's that??? 27 uSec. or 27 millionth of a second. Not bad for this five minutes. Tom Watson tosiwmee

To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (8214)	11/3/2000 7:20:16 PM
From: 44magnumpower	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

The new family of SGITM OriginTM 3000 series servers and SGITM Onyx® 3000 series graphics systems makes real the long-held dream of truly modular computing. Now, technical and creative computer users can have the same modularity, freedom of choice, and ease of upgrade that people have long benefited from in assembling and enhancing their home-entertainment centers. In unprecedented fashion, SGI delivers on the promise of superior performance, custom configuration, resiliency, and investment protection. As Ben Passarelli, SGI's director of Server Product Marketing, says, "With modular computing, customers can buy precisely what they need, when they need it, with the confidence that they will be able to add the late-breaking technologies of the future to what they already have." A Superior Architecture The newly announced SGITM 3000 family of systems marks the return of the company to its time-honored leadership position in the realm of technical and creative computing. The basis for the 3000 family is NUMAflexTM technology, SGI's innovative and flexible use of a superior supercomputer architecture. As an architecture for high-performance multiprocessor computers, SGITM NUMA (nonuniform memory access) exceeds the capabilities of the SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) architecture used in previous generations of supercomputers. SGI NUMA makes it possible for systems to increase shared memory as needed to meet the demands of CPU-to-memory bandwidth whenever additional processors are added to a configuration. Growing out of a joint project with Stanford University that began more than 10 years ago, SGI NUMA gives technical and creative users superior scalability and performance. SGI is the only computer manufacturer capable of offering third-generation NUMA architecture, leveraging the company's long expertise in leading-edge computing. NUMAflex technology takes advantage of the architecture through modular bricks that add specialized capacities in graphics, central processing, storage, PCI expansion, or I/O capacity. Even the internal interconnect is modular, so that large installations can be built from small ones, one brick at a time. Winning through Modularity NUMAflex technology gives technical and creative customers choices and growth paths never before available. As Janet Matsuda, SGI's director of Graphics Product Marketing, says: "Modularity offers both savings and scalability so that customers don't waste their money on what they don't want and can spend it on what they do want." Debra Goldfarb, group vice president at analyst firm IDC, agrees: "Modular computing empowers end users to build the kind of environment that they need not only today but over time. SGI, with this product, is really ahead of the curve in the market. We are seeing the [rest of the] industry absolutely trying to catch up" with SGI. In addition, SGI Origin 3000 servers and SGI Onyx 3000 visualization systems reflect a return to SGI's core competencies. "It is very exciting for us to see that SGI is once again really becoming true to the mission it had years ago, that of leading the industry in technical computing, " says Goldfarb. "This company has really hit it this time and [we] believe this is really the right technology at the right point in time." The Power of Visualization Of course visualization, along with data handling and scalable architecture, has always been one of SGI's three main core competencies. The new SGI Onyx 3000 series, which utilizes next-generation InfiniteReality3TM graphics, will be able to aid users in what Matsuda calls "their need to understand." Says Matsuda, "You can get powerful visualization with powerful computing, because your eyes are the widest channel to the brain. And sometimes you need to give people experiences you don't want them to have in real life." A unique feature of InfiniteReality3 is its ability to perform visual serving, delivering powerful graphics capabilities over a network as needed. The new SGI Onyx 3000 series systems are also optimized for real-time simulation, such as in planetariums, Reality CenterTM facilities, digital media and geospatial imaging. A final component of SGI's renewed focus on its customers and what Passarelli calls "working to our strengths" is SGI's continuing strong commitment to both MIPS® and IRIX®, which is evidenced by unprecedented customer demand for the new product line. While SGI sees long-term strategic value in the company's involvement with the Open Source community, "We remain fanatically committed to helping our customers solve their problems in the here and now. For customers on the leading edge, if you give them more capabilities, more compute power, and greater visualization, they can do amazing things."

To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (8214)	11/4/2000 2:28:14 PM
From: 44magnumpower	Respond to of 14451

Itanium-based Linux cluster put to the test by SGI SGI has installed one of the first Intel Itanium-based Linux clustered systems at a US university to test Linux clusters as a replacement for MPP (massively parallel processor) systems. The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) has installed a four-node Linux cluster running on two Itanium processors per node. The system will be used to run parallel scientific and engineering codes. Al Stutz, director of high-performance computing at the university, said: "The project is a joint research between OSC and SGI to investigate the feasibility of using Linux clusters in place of traditional MPP systems for a diverse set of engineering and scientific problems." The system will initially be used by OSC staff, but from next month restricted numbers of academic researchers will be allowed to port their applications on to the platform. OSC provides the computing and communications infrastructure for a wide range of regional projects for academia, governments and businesses. One project involves simulating a temporal bone dissection, which is expected to influence future medical procedures and instructions.

To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (8214)	11/4/2000 2:31:11 PM
From: 44magnumpower	Respond to of 14451

SGI at Ohio Supercomputer Center Supercomputing Based on Linux® Clusters Cost-Effective Supercomputing for the 21st Century In today's cost-conscious environment, academic and research institutions are continually looking for new ways to optimize their technology investments, even at the highest level of supercomputing. Through a unique four-way alliance with SGITM Professional Services, Myricom, and the Portland Group, the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) found its solution in a new Linux OS-based Beowulf cluster called The Brain. Beowulf clusters are specialized supercomputers that are gaining popularity in the technical and enterprise computing market because of their high performance at a relatively low cost. Based on today's proliferation of less expensive commodity hardware and the freely available Linux operating system, Beowulf clusters are used for solving very specific types of problems through massive parallel processing. In less than 30 days, OSC and SGI assembled a supercomputing entity that enables Ohio's scientists, educators, and engineers to reach important insights at almost half the cost, without sacrificing performance compared to a standard mainframe. Based on the SGI LinuxTM environment and powerful SGITM 1400L servers, The Brain daily pumps out results for nuclear physics equations, chemistry problems, and computational fluid dynamics. "This project provides the center with an opportunity to expand its role as a statewide resource by bringing even more scalable computing power to Ohio's scientists and engineers," says Charlie Bender, executive director of OSC. "Working with SGI has allowed us to assist researchers to use the high-performance Linux computing systems at their desktops at both OSC and the National Science Foundation supercomputer centers." Building the Supercomputing Cluster The new OSC Linux cluster consists of 32 SGI 1400L servers, each with four 500 MHz Intel® Pentium® III XeonTM processors. Preloaded featuring the SGI Linux Environment featuring Red Hat® Linux 6.0, the 32 servers provide a computing environment connected by Myricom's newest Myrinet 64-port switch at 1.27Gb per second per port (with four ports per machine). An SGITM OriginTM 2000 series server acts as the NFS server for storage, and a legacy PC running Linux serves as the cluster console. "Working with SGI Professional Services consultants gave our work teams an excellent synthesis of ideas," said Al Stutz, the center's director of high-performance computing. "The staff were excellent at coming up with ideas for evaluating choices and finding the best course of action. SGI provided us with some of the internal procedures that it uses to support Linux clusters, while taking some of our concepts and incorporating them into their ongoing Linux offering." The OSC cluster includes all the components of the SGITM Advanced Clustering Environment (ACE), including the Portable Batch System (PBS) for batch job scheduling, Samba for heterogeneous file sharing, the MPICH communications protocol, and SGI Performance Co-PilotTM software for performance tuning. Each 1400L server includes standard availability features such as hot-pluggable disk drives and power supplies. The cluster is monitored through both the central console and the individual servers' administrative capabilities, including an emergency management port for maintaining a system event log, capturing critical sensor data such as temperature changes, and remotely resetting power via a serial line. SNMP support ensures that the cluster can be administered using standard enterprise management tools. The Portland Group has provided a number of key compilers for the cluster, which runs a wide range of both open source and commercial applications, including Fluent for CFD calculations, QCD Lattice for physics particle research, MSC, Cactus (a relativity modeling tool), Etna's TotalView, and Gaussian for chemistry problem solving. Ohio's research community accesses its programs through OARnet, the state's high-performance network that provides Internet connectivity to more than a million Ohio residents. Planning for the Future of Supercomputing "We believe that this type of cluster is an important aspect of the future of supercomputing," says Doug Johnson, OSC's technical project lead. "Today"s trend is toward increasing interoperability. By using Linux, we have gained a large application base for our user community; by using clusters, we have gained a cheaper, more scalable, and more flexible solution." "SGI has become OSC's corporate ally in building these types of solutions, helping OSC to become an academic leader in Linux clustering," says Mike Armstrong, SGI's project manager. "SGI continues to stay on the leading edge of the academic environment, knowing what supercomputing customers are looking for and what types of solutions will work for them. The fundamental processes of this project will apply to other installations, making SGI Linux solutions easier and faster to implement."

To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (8214)	11/6/2000 9:51:06 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 14451

SGI and ePeople Launch New Online Technical Support Marketplace for Linux Users biz.yahoo.com New Online Helpdesk Extends Service Offerings; ePeople Marketplace Allows Any Linux User to Get Web-Based Support From SGI MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- SGI(TM) (NYSE: SGI - news) Global Services, a leading provider of enterprise Linux® operating system services, and ePeople(tm), the largest and most comprehensive e-support marketplace, today joined forces to bring a new online technical support marketplace to Linux users. With this expanded service, Linux users can receive fast and convenient Web-based Linux support from SGI experts. Users can access SGI experts through the new SGI(SM) Online Helpdesk (http:www.support.sgi.com/linux/helpdesk) or through the ePeople(TM) marketplace Web site (http://www.epeople.com). Powered by ePeople's robust infrastructure and service delivery tools, the new SGI Online Helpdesk is currently available to all Linux users worldwide. ....... Tom Watson tosiwmee