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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 [...]

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. [...]