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To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (10995)	5/20/2003 4:26:46 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

"R&D for SGI new systems been running @ industry highs..." Followed by industry high losses?

To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (10995)	5/21/2003 9:36:31 AM
From: Ms. Baby Boomer	Respond to of 14451

SGI Altix 3000 Screams on Upcoming Itanium 2 'Madison' Processor Running 64-Bit Technical Applications Preliminary Tests Reveal Record-Setting Performance on Next-Generation Intel Itanium 2 Processor; Developer Community Optimizing Code for Altix Platform MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SGI (NYSE: SGI - News) today announced that its SGI® Altix(TM) 3000 servers and superclusters deliver world-record performance on the next-generation Intel® Itanium® 2 processor (Intel code name Madison). Preliminary results of 64-bit application tests reveal that the SGI Altix 3000 family running on Madison will once again provide record-shattering performance, price/performance and scalability in a standard Linux® OS environment. Based on early industry-standard benchmarks, SGI also expects the combination of SGI Altix 3000 and the Madison processor to deliver system performance over 50% faster than of current record-breaking results on the Itanium 2 processor-based Altix(TM) 3000 system. A battery of real-world application benchmark tests confirms the dominant performance and price/performance advantage of the SGI Altix systems, which are up to 130% faster -- more than double the speed of the closest competing system. SGI Altix 3000 systems deliver leading performance across the board on popular compute intensive applications from HPC areas such as computational chemistry, biosciences and computational fluid dynamics. Conducted on an SGI Altix system running four 1.5 GHz Madison processors, preliminary internal tests show how Altix easily outpaces the industry's closest competitor, IBM® eServer(TM) pSeries(TM) systems running four IBM® POWER4(TM) processors. Current evidence indicates that these numbers are not expected to vary much when applied to the new POWER4+(TM) processor. SGI intends to issue final performance results following Madison's first shipment, expected this summer. The results will include those for Altix 3000 configurations that uniquely scale up to 64 processors..... biz.yahoo.com