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It’s that time of year – and once again, Avid was a star at Sunday night’s 75th annual Academy Awards. This year’s ceremony marked another bright night for Avid, Softimage and Digidesign – as our products played a role in almost every film that was honored with an Oscar statuette. In fact, in the case [...]

Monday February10 ,10 : 24am ET By Patrick Seitz Investor’s Business Daily Three years ago, struggling Avid Technology Inc., a maker of digital editing systems for the entertainment industry, needed to bring in a new chief executive to find new growth opportunities. After beating analysts’ earnings expectations the last three quarters, CEO David Krall has [...]

IDG Honors SGI for Enabling Supercomputing Capabilities in Linux Clusters MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Jan. 22, 2003)–SGI (NYSE: SGI) today announced receipt of “Best of Show” honors at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2003 for product excellence with the SGI® AltixTM 3000 family of servers and superclusters. Under the banner “Scaling Linux to New Altitudes,” SGI [...]

New Versions of Media Composer, Film Composer, and Avid Xpress also to support Mac OS X Tewksbury, MA – January 21, 2003 – Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) today unveiled its Symphony™ system for the Macintosh platform and new Mac OS X versions of the Media Composer®, Film Composer®, and Avid Xpress® systems. Symphony v4.7 [...]

Joe “Zonker” Brockmeier, www.NewsFactor.com Until a few years ago, the Top 500 list of supercomputers was dominated by proprietary solutions with prices that put high-performance computing (HPC) out of reach for all but the most well-funded institutions and companies. Then came Linux. The open source OS has gate-crashed the Top 500 list in a big [...]

James Riley QUEENSLAND’S university-based advanced computing consortium has acquired two Linux-based supercomputers from Silicon Graphics worth about $8 million. The Queensland Parallel Supercomputing Foundation (QPSF) expects to complete installation of the systems in February, making it one of the first users of the newly launched Itanium2-based Linux SGI machines worldwide. SGI launched the new range [...]