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SGI introduced the new SGI® RASC™ RC100 computation blade, a groundbreaking solution that packs the power of dozens of supercomputer nodes into a single blade by leveraging the inherent parallelism of the industry's most powerful Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology. Built with dual Xilinx Virtex™ 4 FPGAs, SGI RASC RC100 Blade can accelerate the performance of many HPC applications by orders of magnitude over conventional systems at a far lower cost and much smaller footprint. Based on SGI's groundbreaking RASC (Reconfigurable Application-Specific Computing) technology, the new RC100 blade is designed for use with award-winning SGI® Altix® servers, and can be programmed at the customer's site to accelerate mission-critical, high-performance computing (HPC) applications in oil and gas exploration, defense and intelligence, bioinformatics, medical imaging, and broadcast media.

SGI also announced that SAP® solutions are now certified, supported and available on the award-winning SGI Altix server platform for Linux® environments. The certification means that both new and existing SAP customers can leverage the same scalable and high-throughput SGI® servers already adopted by many of the world's leading automakers, energy giants, pharmaceutical companies, and manufacturers. With Altix driving their Linux enterprise infrastructures, SAP customers can more easily and affordably consolidate their resources to reduce ownership costs. In a related announcement, SGI named REALTECH AG a certified SAP migration partner for SGI platforms. Based in Germany, REALTECH is a leading technology consulting and software firm.

Channel Programs
Also this quarter, SGI and GTSI Corp. (NASDAQ: GTSI) announced an agreement establishing GTSI as a front line government channels supplier providing SGI solutions to federal, state and local government customers. The alliance ensures SGI and its strategic resellers easy access to GTSI's numerous resources, including its existing government contracts and buying vehicles, its extensive government sales administrative expertise, and its broad knowledge of government customer requirements. The new relationship is a joint effort to grow revenues from the sale of 64-bit Linux solutions to government agencies at all levels.

Industry Awards
Bio-IT World editors also selected SGI as one of 50 companies that have driven and continue to drive the future of biomedical research and drug discovery. The Bio-IT 50, published in the March issue of Bio-IT World, identifies top sciences firms that provide the most indispensable and enabling technologies to the life sciences field. SGI customers are among the "who's who" in the life sciences field. They include 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.

Customers
SGI's third fiscal quarter saw major customer wins throughout the world and across all key industries. A select sampling of these includes:

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     ADRIN, part of India's Department of Space, in an effort to increase the throughput and streamline the workflow management associated with ever-increasing satellite data through Oracle10g, purchased a series of SGI® Altix® 350 mid-range servers and a 16TB SGI® InfiniteStorage Storage Area Network solution. ADRIN will use these systems to run its in-house developed applications to process satellite image data on 24x7 mode to serve its users. SGI® InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS™ on a three-tiered Hierarchical Storage Management Solution built from SGI® InfiniteStorage arrays and third-party tape backup systems is used to manage the huge data archives. ADRIN leverages nearly a dozen Altix 350 servers that form a GRID across five sites throughout India and work in conjunction to not only increase throughput but also to provide 24x7 access to ADRIN clients. Each site is powered with primary and backup servers and three-tier HSM to run application software, while a dedicated system manages the back-end Oracle 10g database.
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     The Brazilian facility of German engineering giant Behr, in an effort to improve product quality and speed time to market, purchased a Linux® OS-based SGI® visualization solution to run a range of computer-aided engineering and finite element analysis applications, including PERMAS and CATIA. The four-processor, 24GB SGI® system runs Novell's SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server, Ver. 9 with SGI ProPack 4. Running QuickTransit™ from Transitive Corporation to enable highly optimized application performance within a 64-bit Linux environment, Behr's Engineering Department selected the SGI solution because of its industry-leading global shared-memory architecture, the power and scalability of Intel Itanium 2 processors, and native support for Linux.
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     EFILM LLC, a major digital film laboratory in Hollywood, Calif., and a long-time customer of Silicon Graphics, has purchased a large complement of SGI technology to support its exploding Digital Laboratory business. EFILM purchased an SGI® InfiniteStorage RM660 system to add three real-time data streams to an SGI CXFS shared filesystem SAN. EFILM also purchased 61TB of SGI® InfiniteStorage TP9700 SATA storage, a Brocade® SilkWorm® 48000 Director for Fibre Channel connectivity, a top-of-the-line StorageTek® SL8500 tape library with a petabyte (PB) of storage, and an SGI Altix 350 server system with eight Intel Itanium 2 processors to be used as a tape server. EFILM also has an Altix 350 and two Altix 330 servers for R&D, a 64-processor SGI® Altix® 3700 Bx2 server for rendering and image processing and hundreds of terabytes of SGI InfiniteStorage.
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     GeoEye, the world's largest commercial remote sensing company, purchased four, 16-processor SGI Altix 350 servers for use at the GeoEye ground site in Dulles, Va. The new Altix systems will drive core satellite image processing for GeoEye-1, the company's new satellite scheduled for launch in February of 2007. With the capacity to collect more than 700,000 square kilometers of high-resolution imagery every day, GeoEye-1 will produce record amounts of image data, which was a key reason the company selected the Altix platform. With a powerful shared-memory architecture and independently scalable I/O, Altix 350 servers will allow GeoEye to process data generated by the new satellite, while GeoEye's choice to run Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Ver. 9 ensures the Altix deployment dovetails with existing GeoEye applications. Also essential to the purchase decision was the 64-bit Intel Itanium 2 processor's ability to accommodate large files and large-scale memory requirements, in addition to HPC-class mutli-threading. Once operational in April 2007, GeoEye-1 will be the world's highest resolution commercial earth imaging system with a ground resolution of .41-meter panchromatic and 1.65-meter multispectral. It will be the fourth remote-sensing satellite in the GeoEye constellation.
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     Janimation, a creative animation, visual effects and design studio in Dallas, Texas, purchased a complete SGI® InfiniteStorage NAS Gateway system for their work in feature films, commercials and video game design. SGI NAS Gateway enables them to use their existing storage systems with InfiniteStorage NAS allowing them to leverage the investment they have already made in existing storage systems. Janimation performed extensive research before testing and purchasing the SGI system, and they are already reporting greatly enhanced workflow and performance due to the speed and throughout of the SGI NAS system.
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     NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. added 600TB of SGI® InfiniteStorage 6700 storage to its Columbia supercomputer deployment, and acquired a new 4Gbit infrastructure to optimize data management with SGI InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS. Rated No. 4 on the Top 500 list of the world's most powerful computers, NASA's 10,240-processor Columbia system required additional storage capacity to accommodate the massive data management, access and retrieval demands of its broad user base. The purchase also included on-site support from SGI's Professional Services staff.
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     To accommodate the need for greater bandwidth performance prompted by the growing demand for 4K digital intermediates by the motion picture industry, Pacific Title & Art Studio purchased two SGI InfiniteStorage 6700 systems with 50TB storage. A leading film optical house since 1919, Pacific Title generates 8 to 16TB of data per day in 2K and 4K digital cinema mastering. The SGI InfiniteStorage 6700 systems, with real-time streams of 3 GBps, were selected to meet the needs of real-time 4K-which generates data rates in excess of 850MBps-as well as for the 4Gbit Fibre Channel architecture, which the facility plans to implement throughout its two locations in Hollywood, Calif.
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     The Royal Dutch Meteorological Society (KNMI) extended its existing data processing deployment for weather forecasting, climate research and seismology with a new 224-processor SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 supercomputer with 448GB of memory, a 16-processor, 32GB Altix 3700 Bx2 system to serve as a "head node," and a 6TB SGI® InfiniteStorage TP9500 array. With the new SGI compute and data management solutions, KNMI will dramatically upgrade its ability to achieve highly accurate and reliable forecasts and trend analyses. KNMI selected the SGI solutions over competing products due to SGI's leading price/performance and uniquely powerful system architecture.
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     Saad Hospital, a leading multi-specialty hospital in Saudi Arabia, has purchased a cluster of four, 16-processor SGI Altix 350 mid-range servers, with a total of 64GB of RAM, to handle the increasing load of radiology images transferred between hospital departments. Each group of two servers will back up the other, to ensure 24x7availability for hospital staff. Purchased through SGI reseller Saad Trading, the systems run Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Ver. 9 and the SGI Advanced Linux™ Environment with SGI ProPack™. Saad Hospital selected SGI Altix due to the Altix platform's high reliability and its powerful shared-memory architecture, which will allow the hospital to accommodate the growing demands of its Picture Archive and Communication System.
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     Team McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 Team has further strengthened its technical relationship with SGI's acclaimed HPC technology in the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, England, with new solutions capable of analyzing increasingly larger Formula 1 race car models. To help McLaren engineers assess specific new car designs, the company has installed a 128-processor SGI® Altix® 4700 blade server configuration with 512GB of memory, and another 32-processor Altix 4700 blade system with 192GB of memory. While the larger system will drive most of the more complex computational fluid dynamics (CFD) problems, the smaller 32-processor system will handle pre- and post-processing tasks.
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     The Theoretical and Polymer Physics (PFY) group of the Department of Applied Physics at the Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e) in The Netherlands will support leading-edge physics research with a new 16-processor, 64GB SGI® Altix® 330 mid-range server running Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Ver. 9. In the PFY group, theoretical research is carried out on polymers and organic materials. Researchers are working to understand the relationship between the molecular and microstructure of materials, the microscopic physical processes bringing about these structures, and the resulting material properties - in short: the structure-dynamics-property relation. Methods from various areas of theoretical physics are used: statistical and soft-matter physics, solid-state quantum theory, and large-scale computer simulations. The group closely collaborates with other groups of the department as well as polymer chemists, material scientists and computer scientists from the departments of Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics and Computing Science. An important part of the research is embedded in the Eindhoven Polymer Laboratories and Dutch Polymer Institute. A long-time relationship with SGI, the price/performance leadership of SGI Altix 330 systems, and a desire to optimize performance with Intel compilers led to the sale.
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     The University of Colorado at Boulder, to support studies involving the High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) project, purchased an 80-processor SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 system with 160GB of memory. HIRDLS focuses on scientific investigation of the Earth's atmosphere; in particular, climatically vital regions linking the planet's lower and upper atmospheric regions. CU-Boulder purchased the SGI Altix system, which runs Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Ver. 9, to run customized HIRDLS code that analyzes data captured from a spacecraft, which ultimately is converted to such atmospheric quantities as temperature, ozone, water vapor, nitrogen dioxide and aerosols. Working with SGI reseller James River Technical Inc., CU-Boulder selected the SGI Altix system because of its superior price/performance over systems based on dual-core Opteron processors, and because of the system enables CU-Boulder researchers to process more data faster.

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SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc. (OTC: SGIDE), 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.

Viertel und $100 Million ein Bargeld des Jahres ago.____Unrestricted,
Bargeld�quivalente und vermarktungsf�hige Investitionen an M�rz 31,
waren 2006 $55 Million verglichen mit $66 Million an Dezember 30, 2005
und $84 Million an M�rz 25, 2005. Sgi hat ein begrenztes Nachsicht
unter seiner Wert-gegr�ndeten Gutschriftvereinbarung im Licht des
Treffens nicht der EBITDA Vereinbarung in dieser Vereinbarung
empfangen. In Verbindung mit dem Nachsicht hat SGI hinunter die Menge
gezahlt, die unter das Bezeichnung Darlehen durch $20 Million mit $10
Million von uneingeschr�nktem Bargeld gezeichnet wird und $10 Million
der vorher eingeschr�nkten cash.____SGI\'s j�hrlichen
Aktion�rsversammlung und sein regelm��ig zeitlich geplanter
viertelj�hrlicher Konferenzanruf sind verschoben worden, bis weitere
notice.____Forward-Looking Statements__This Nachrichten Freigabe das
Vorw�rts-Schauen von von Aussagen in bezug auf zuk�nftige F�lle
oder erwartete finanzielle Leistung enth�lt, die Gefahren und
Ungewi�heiten miteinbeziehen. Faktoren, die solch einen Unterschied
verursachen konnten, schlie�en ein, aber werden nicht begrenzt: die
Effekte unserer Archivierung des Kapitels 11; unsere F�higkeit,
ausreichende Liquidit�t beizubehalten; und unsere F�higkeit, normale
Bezeichnungen mit Kunden, Lieferanten und Diensterbringern zu
erreichen und beizubehalten. Diese und andere Gefahren sind oder
werden von Zeit zu Zeit SGI\s in den periodischen Reports, die mit der
Sicherheiten und Austausch-Kommission vorgelegt werden,
einschlie�lich die Form 8K\'s heute eingeordnet in Verbindung mit
dieser Ansage (und anderen Ansagen) und SGI\s viertelj�hrlichem
Bericht �ber Form 10-Q f�r das beendete Viertel Dezember 30, 2005
ausf�hrlich sein. Silikon-Graphiken ist kein verpflichtet, alle
m�gliche Vorw�rts-schauenden Aussagen �ffentlich zu aktualisieren
oder zu verbessern, ob �nderungen resultierend aus neuen
Informationen, zuk�nftige F�lle oder otherwise.____SILICON GRAPHIKEN
eintreten | die Quelle der Innovation und des Discovery�"�__SGI,
alias Silicon Graphics, Inc. (OTC: SGID), ist ein F�hrer im
leistungsstarken Rechnen. Sgi Hilfen Kunden l�sen ihre rechnenden
Herausforderungen, ob teilende Bilder von der it\s zum Hilfsmittel in
der Gehirnchirurgie, �l leistungsf�higer finden, globales Klima
studierend, Technologien f�r Heimatsicherheit zur Verf�gung stellend
und Verteidigung, dem �bergang analoge zu digitaler erm�glichend
Sendung oder Portionunternehmen gro�e Daten handhaben. Mit den
weltweiten B�ros, wird Firma im Mountain View, Calif. Gehabt und kann
auf dem Netz an den www.sgi.com.____Silicon Graphiken, SGI, der SGI
W�rfel gefunden werden und das SGI Firmenzeichen sind eingetragene
Warenzeichen und die Quelle der Innovation und der Entdeckung ist ein
eingetragenes Warenzeichen von Silicon Graphics, Inc., in den
weltweiten Vereinigten Staaten und/oder in anderen L�ndern. Alle
weiteren eingetragenen Warenzeichen, die hierin erw�hnt werden, sind
die Eigenschaft ihrer jeweiligen Inhaber.

Häufig müssen die Anteilseigner des insolventen Unternehmens nach Abschluss der Insolvenz entschädigungslos auf ihre Rechte am Unternehmen verzichten, da das Gericht alle Altverbindlichkeiten des Unternehmens und Rechte an ihm aufhebt (engl.: rights and interests are being terminated). An die Stelle der Alteigentümer rücken dann die Gläubiger in dem Anteil, der ihrem Anteil an den Gesamtverbindlichkeiten entspricht.

Typischerweise werden durch das Gericht ungesicherte Forderungen und, falls dies für das Unternehmen vorteilhaft erscheint, auch Tarifverträge und langfristige Gebäudemieten aufgehoben.

Eine Einreichung unter Chapter 11 hat weiter zur Folge, dass die Aktien des Unternehmens, wenn es eine Aktiengesellschaft ist, deren Aktien zuvor an der NYSE öffentlich gehandelt wurden, nun an der NASDAQ gehandelt werden. Solche insolvente Aktiengesellschaften sind durch ein Q vor der Firmenabkürzung zu erkennen. Ein historisches Beispiele hierfür ist die Insolvenz des Unternehmens Penn Central (Penn Central Transportation Company, Abk.: PC, 1968-1970), dass anschließend als QPC gehandelt wurde.

Die größte jemals unter Chapter 11 eingereichte Insolvenz war Worldcom. Das Unternehmen hatte bei Einreichung einen Wert von 103 Milliarden US-Dollar.  

Nicht nur Firmen und Pensionäre sind von der Kostenexplosion bedroht, sondern auch US-Steuerzahler. Wenn die Firmen das Defizit nicht mehr decken können, wälzen sie ihre Verpflichtungen ab auf den Staat. Hilfe von Politikern ist nicht zu erwarten, obwohl sie gewarnt sein müßten. In den neunziger Jahren mußten Steuerzahler mit Milliardenzahlungen bei Savings & Loans aushelfen. Damals hatten die Sparkassen sich mit Immobiliengeschäften verspekuliert und gingen bankrott.

Unverständnis darüber, wie leicht insolvente Firmen in den USA ihre Verpflichtungen abstreifen können, herrscht in Europa. Kürzlich verspottete der British-Airways-Chef Martin Broughton seine insolventen amerikanischen Rivalen als "lebende Tote" und verglich das US-Insolvenzverfahren Chapter 11 mit einer Art der Staatssubvention. Er sagte, daß British Airways Millionen in ihre Pensionskasse gesteckt habe, als US-Rivalen vor der Finanzierung des Ruhestandes ihrer Pensionäre geflüchtet seien.

Verschärfend kommt hinzu, daß die staatliche Behörde, die einspringt, wenn Firmen ihre Pensionskosten nicht mehr bezahlen können, tief in den roten Zahlen steckt. Mit der Übernahme von 192 bankrotten Pensionskassen erweiterte sich das Defizit der Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp in diesem Jahr auf 23,3 Milliarden Dollar. Das ist eine drastische Verschlechterung, denn im vorigen Jahr war sie nur mit 11,2 Milliarden Dollar und der Übernahme von 155 Pensionskassen in der Kreide. "Die langfristige Zahlungsfähigkeit dieses Programms steht auf dem Spiel", warnt Bradley Belt, der Leiter der Behörde.

Schon jetzt erhalten Pensionäre nur ein Drittel des Geldes, das ihnen von ihrer Firma für ihren Ruhestand versprochen wurde. Für die Firmen im Standard-&-Poor's-500-Index könnte es Ende dieses Jahres laut Schätzungen des Credit-Suisse-First-Boston-Analyst David Zion zu einem Defizit von 192 Milliarden Dollar kommen. Eine Überraschung ist das nicht. In der Pensionskasse von IBM klaffte bereits im vergangenen Jahr ein Loch von 5,7 Milliarden Dollar. Dem Flugzeugbauer Boeing fehlten 6,7 Milliarden Dollar. Die Ölfirma Exxon Mobil zeigte ein Defizit von zehn Milliarden Dollar. Der Ford Motor Company fehlten elf Milliarden Dollar. Das sind schlechte Nachrichten für die 44 Millionen Amerikaner, denen 30 000 Firmen laut "Business Week" eine Billion Dollar für ihren Ruhestand schulden.