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To: Don Green who wrote (8790)	4/20/2001 12:22:59 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

SGI Donates Systems to Minority Institutions as Part of OSC's Cluster Ohio Project Story Filed: Friday, April 20, 2001 9:03 AM EST COLUMBUS, Ohio, April 20 /PRNewswire Interactive News Release/ -- Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) announced that it will donate $140,000 worth of supercomputing systems to Ohio's minority institutions to kick off OSC's (Ohio Supercomputer Center) Cluster Ohio Project. SGI's outreach program will provide 20 supercomputing systems to Ohio's minority institutions -- Central State University and Wilberforce University with technical support provided by the University of Dayton. OSC's Cluster Ohio Project, a program to distribute processors to faculty statewide, will be granting similar processors to faculty in June. Ken Coleman, SGI executive vice president of global sales, service and marketing, said, "SGI is extremely pleased to partner with OSC to develop and promote the use of industry commodity clusters for high performance computing applications based on an Intel IA32 and IA64 architecture and an open source Linux operating system. We look forward to solidifying our partnership and delivering unsurpassed computing capabilities to researchers all over the country." OSC will support the systems by collaborating with the University of Dayton's Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments, Wilberforce's Engineering and Computing Departments, and Central State's Mathematics and Computer Science Departments. "SGI's donation enables us to kick off the Cluster Ohio Project by establishing three universities as test site," said Al Stutz, OSC High Perfromance Computing Director. "We will be able to assist the state's two minority institutions by locating a 14-processor SGI cluster at their campuses. The project also calls for a collaborative relationship with Dayton, Wilberforce and Central State in terms of curriculum development and research." The collaboration will create two remote clusters: fourteen systems will be housed at Wilberforce University and the other six at the University of Dayton. The systems will be used to support academic courses and research conducted by the two remote sites. The Cluster will assist the development of a common curriculum and courses in parallel computing and computational science at each university. Robert Marcus, Central State professor, commented, "I have been a member of OSC's Statewide Users Group for many years. OSC has long been a center of excellence for research and teaching in high performance computing, and I am very pleased to join this collaboration to develop new, exciting curricula in computational science for undergraduate education." OSC will provide central administration services, hardware maintenance for two years, software, 250-resource-unit grant for OSC SGI Intel Itanium Cluster access, and training. For more information about the Cluster Ohio Project, visit the OSC website at oscinfo.osc.edu .

To: Don Green who wrote (8790)	4/20/2001 1:38:40 PM
From: Ms. Baby Boomer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Some Big Boys have a net @ 3 <eom>....

To: Don Green who wrote (8790)	4/23/2001 10:25:31 AM
From: Ms. Baby Boomer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

<Surprise Surprise!> From Briefing.com 4/23: PC Sector SGI - Before the open, reported Q3 loss of $0.24 a share, $0.01 better than the First Call consensus Revs down 9.6% vs last year Co will cut close to 1,000 jobs in June 2001 Q Will take a $60-$80 mln streamlining charge in June Q Should see cost reductions of nearly 20% ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alias/Wavefront @ NAB 2001 Alias\|Wavefront is demonstrating Maya 4 for IRIX and Windows NT/Windows 2000 at the National Association of Broadcasters Conference (NAB) at the SGI (S4132), Compaq (M9024), HP (M8771) and Quantel (L11520) booths. Maya on Mac OS X will be demonstrated at the Apple booth (M9131). biz.yahoo.com FYI, mutual fund shareholders pulled a net $11.1B from stock-based mutual funds April 3-5...how foolish, missed the rate-cut bounce.... (Source: TrimTabs.com Investment Research)