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By Andrew Orlowski If anyone can find a use for an Itanium chip, it ought to be SGI. Although the processor remains stillborn as a commercial computing proposition, the benchmarks are impressive and improving, and SGI’s technical computing customers typically need a much smaller working set of software to get their work done. Still, it’s [...]

from the Bahrain Tribune The first 24-hour English entertainment channel called ‘2’ of the mbc group today begins transmission on ArabSat 2A and ArabSat 3A digital service from Bahrain at 6pm. The Arab youth is the target of the channel, launched yesterday under the patronage of the Minister of Information, Nabeel bin Yacoub Al Hamer. [...]

Avid Free DV Enables Easy Introduction to Avid Family San Francisco, CA – January 7, 2003 – At the Macworld 2003 Expo (booth #2239), Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) today announced Avid® Free DV – a free, DV-only version of its award-winning video editing software. Planned for both Macintosh OS X and Windows XP platforms, [...]

- By Robin ‘Roblimo’ Miller – One of Linux’s supposed barriers in high performance computing is the “eight processor limit.” SGI says their new Altix 3000 line, running a patched 2.4.19 kernel, handily breaks this barrier — it can run up to 64 Intel Itanium 2 microprocessers — and that “superclusters” built with SGI’s Linux-based [...]

CONTINUUM COMPLETE AVX offers first real-time filters for Avid Xpress DV Los Angeles, CA (December 11, 2002) – Boris FX, the leading developer of integrated application technology for the television, broadcast, post production, and multi-media markets, today announces the release of 18 real-time plug-ins for Avid’s Xpress DV nonlinear editing system. The plug-ins are available [...]

Open System Breaks Crucial VOD Price Barrier MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (December 5, 2002)–SGI (NYSE: SGI) and Kasenna today announced a joint Cable VOD initiative and the immediate availability of the most cost-effective VOD server for cable deployments. Additionally, in Q1 CY 2003, this solution will incorporate Kasenna’s High Performance Networking (HPN) option for Gigabit Ethernet [...]