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To: Srexley who wrote (8490)	1/29/2001 9:16:07 AM
From: Ms. Baby Boomer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Eating some humble pie myself this am...so much for predictions. Sure didn't look like the same team that came to play 2 wks ago. Wow, that B1 is some bird... *************************************************************************************************** World's Largest Fighter Pilot Training Base Upgrades Simulators With Silicon Graphics Onyx2 Supercomputer SGI System Provides High-Fidelity Training for U.S. and Allied F-16 Pilots MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- SGI (NYSE: SGI - news) today announced that Lockheed Martin under contract F41624-99-D-5000 with the U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command and the Air Force Research Laboratory, Mesa, AZ, has selected the Silicon Graphics® Onyx2® visualization system with InfiniteReality3(TM) graphics subsystem to upgrade the F-16 flight simulators at the Network Training Center facility, Luke Air Force Base, Glendale, AZ, Located about 20 miles northwest of Phoenix, Luke Air Force Base is home to the largest fighter pilot training base in the world. Its mission is to train F-16 fighter pilots for the U.S. Air Force and its allies. Approximately 1,000 students annually receive training at Luke, which has trained more U.S. fighter pilots than any other Air Force base. With its new 24-processor, 10-pipe Silicon Graphics Onyx2 system, Luke Air Force Base now has the computing and graphics power to provide high fidelity, imagery-based air-to-air and air-to-ground training for F-16 fighter pilots. SGI, Lockheed Martin Services, Inc., Phoenix, and MultiGen-Paradigm Inc., a Computer Associates (NYSE: CA - news) company, have successfully integrated the new displays, projectors and image generator to provide a dramatic increase in the training fidelity of Luke's F-16 Networked Training Center simulators. biz.yahoo.com