E."
"Kraftway selected SGI products for its line of GScale servers because SGI
is the proven solution that allows our systems designed for banking, finance
and government to scale without concerns as business needs grow," said Alex
Kudryavtsev, CEO, Kraftway.

Massively Parallel Technologies Selects Dell as Vendor of Choice for Biotech Virtual Power Centers

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computational challenges. All other trademarks are the property of
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The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) will operate one
of the largest numerical weather forecasting systems in the
world when it upgrades later this year to a Cray X1E
supercomputer with peak performance of more than 16 teraflops. The system also boosts memory performance by 50 percent,
resulting in five times the processor performance, five times the
memory performance and 25 times the interconnect performance of
conventional HPC systems.

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L. Itanium is a
trademark or registered trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in
the United States and other countries. This major
upgrade will be used to enhance national weather forecasts for
Poland and to support leading-edge research in the
mathematical, natural and computational sciences, including
bioinformatics.4.3 teraflops--while
maintaining the same cabinet size to produce the highest computing
density in the HPC market.

Cray is a registered trademark, and Cray X1 and Cray X1E are
trademarks, of Cray Inc.

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Shaw Research and Development, L .com. Powered by
HOWARD(TM), MPT's revolutionary system design and software solution provides
the fastest possible communication between multiple processors.

Spain's National Institute of Meteorology has ordered a Cray
X1E supercomputer as an upgrade to the institute's Cray X1
system. KMA expects not
only good performance from the Cray system, but also good support from
Cray as a company.

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While SGI serves the needs of the most demanding scientific, engineering
and creative users, many of the Company's core technologies hold
groundbreaking implications for other bandwidth-hungry computing environments. For more, go to http://www. Whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil
more efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland
security and defense, or enabling the transition from analog to digital
broadcasting , SGI is dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for
scientific, engineering and creative users.

NOTE: Silicon Graphics, SGI, Altix, InfiniteStorage the SGI cube and the
SGI logo are registered trademarks and Silicon Graphics Prism, NUMAlink and
The Source of Innovation and Discovery are trademarks of Silicon Graphics,
Inc.
"Dell's preferred account team did an exceptional job in responding to our
requests and demonstrating their expertise and commitment to the high
performance computing market."
The BioTech VPC will eventually support all aspects of computational
biotechnology .
The Cray X1E supercomputer scales to sizes as large as 147
teraflops, and its high-bandwidth , low-latency interconnect enables
substantially more efficient scaling than on clustered SMP systems .

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Dell has twenty-one supercomputing clusters in the TOP500 list with three
entries ranked in the top fifty. The system combines the exceptional processor
performance of traditional vector systems with the scalability of
microprocessor-based architectures.

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sgi. as its hardware provider for its
BioTech Virtual Power Center (VPC).
Initial Cray X1E supercomputer customers will use the systems to
handle the most challenging high-performance computing (HPC) problems
and workloads at government and research sites in the U.
As part of a previously announced five-year contract , Cray and
KMA have also jointly established the Earth System Research
Center to advance atmospheric modeling in the East Asia
Pacific region.

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Licensing Agreements With D. The new
relationships are expected to expand the global market for SGI(R)
technologies, allowing more technology solutions than ever to be powered by
SGI -- and potentially driving SGI innovations into new vertical markets
including commercial enterprise computing, Voice Over Internet Protocol
(VOIP), medical imaging and application-specific computing appliances. Shaw
Research and Development . "The open source revolution
has begun in telecom, and SGI's technology will be a key enabler. To achieve that density, the Cray X1E
system employs the world's most powerful individual processors (18.

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New Technology Licensing Partners and OEMs Expand Worldwide Market for SGI Technologies

This will revolutionize the diagnostic
interpretation process, changing the way the entire healthcare
enterprise, not just radiology, is able to view and analyze complex
data sets from modalities such as multi-detector CT and MR. The reader is
cautioned not to rely unduly on these forward-looking statements, which are
not a guarantee of future or current performance. Dell is an outstanding hardware vendor and a
business partner that will help make affordable supercomputing powers a
reality through MPT's VPCs.

These attributes are very important for
accelerating scientific and engineering progress.cray.

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-- FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA has entered into a development agreement
with SGI to incorporate the Silicon Graphics Prism(TM) visualization
platform into its Synapse PACS. E., and can be found on the Web
at http://www. These risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to
differ materially from those described in such statements . This includes searches, visualization, in silico
recombination, molecular dynamics, and molecular docking. The upgraded system will be used for operational
numerical weather prediction and for research in climate and
atmospheric modeling.

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SGI's new Original Equipment
Manufacturers (OEMs) partners include:

-- Signate, a leading provider of open-source VOIP hardware and software
solutions, will base its enterprise class PBX on SGI's Altix(R)
supercomputing technology;
-- Kraftway, one of the leading Information Technology (IT) companies in
Russia, will deliver commercial enterprise computing products based on
SGI(R) Altix(R) 350 mid-range servers and SGI(R) InifiniteStorage(R)
solutions for the banking, finance and other industries in Russia;
-- IPEX Information Technology Group, a leading IT solutions provider in
Australia and a subsidiary of Volante Group Limited, the largest
locally owned IT procurement and professional services company in
Australia, has also licensed Altix 350 and InfiniteStorage technologies
which will address the commercial enterprise computing market in
Australia.

"D. Company Delivers Highly Scalable High Performance Computing Solutions for
BioTech Community

LOUISVILLE, Colo. Their commitment to the high-performance
computing cluster (HPCC) market delivering scalable standards -based clusters
fits well into MPT's VPC vision of affordable, on-demand, supercomputing power
using commercial off-the-shelf hardware. For additional information on Massively Parallel Technologies'
products and services, call (303) 926-8555 or visit its Web site at
http://www.

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OEMs looking to reduce costs and decrease time-to-market by offering
differentiated, standards-based solutions can now offer solutions based on the
same standard-based SGI architecture that powers some of the world's fastest
supercomputers, allowing more customers in more markets to realize the
enormous benefits of SGI technology.

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SGI's vision is to provide technology
that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the
21st century. With offices worldwide, the
company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

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Upgrade Nearly Triples Peak and Price Performance of Cray X1
System That Has Set New Marks On Weather, Engineering and Scientific
Research Applications

Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc.3).
Cray X1E systems are available with 16 to 8,192 processors and 32
gigabytes to 32 terabytes of memory.

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has licensed SGI's high-
bandwidth NUMAlink(TM) interconnection technology for use in a
massively parallel high-performance computing architecture designed to
direct unprecedented computational power at the simulation of proteins
and other biomolecular systems ., Massively Parallel Technologies
(MPT), a provider of on-demand high-performance computing, announced today
that the company has selected Dell Inc. Dell's PowerEdge servers not only meet our first VPC
requirements but are well-positioned to support future VPC growth to
tens-of-thousands of nodes ," said MPT's Chief Executive Officer, Scott Smith.

About Massively Parallel Technologies , Inc.com. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
(ORNL) plans this year to acquire a Cray X1E supercomputer
with peak performance of 20 teraflops (trillions of
calculations per second), along with a 20-teraflop Cray XT3
massively parallel processing system, as part of the DOE's
plan to build the world's most powerful supercomputing
capability for open (non-classified) scientific research at
ORNL.0
gigaflops) and fits two of these into each socket in a dual-core
design. For a discussion of these and other risks , see "Factors
That Could Affect Future Results" in Cray's most recent Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC.

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-- Overall customer-reported scores for the Cray X1 supercomputer
system are also the best for any high-performance computing
(HPC) system on the new HPC Challenge benchmark tests. Go to www.

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Shaw Research and Development and Fuji
Medical, and OEM Agreements With Signate, Kraftway and IPEX, Allow More
Customers to Enjoy the Benefits of SGI's Interconnect , Supercomputer, Storage
and Visualization Technologies

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. "We believe SGI's industry-leading technology will
be a source of competitive advantage in molecular simulations where
interconnect latency and bandwidth are of great importance. "In addition , Kraftway will soon be expanding its
focus to approach the more technical markets in Russia and CDT countries.

Cray Inc. Introduces Cray X1E System Major Upgrade to Record-Setting Cray X1 Supercomputer Product

Lee, KMA's Chief, Supercomputer Center Branch, said, "I
would like to express my satisfaction at the selection of the Cray
system as our next supercomputer, based on the real performance of
KMA 's operational applications.819 teraflops to 2. Cray offers both air-cooled and
liquid-cooled versions .

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S.5-kilometer study
are being analyzed to verify the correctness of MM5 at this
fine grid spacing ).

"The Cray X1E supercomputer builds on the success of the Cray X1
system by adding binary -compatible, advanced dual-core processors to
deliver better performance and greater density--while continuing to
scale to thousands of processors in a single system image.

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, Inspired by the
success of the acclaimed standards-based Linux(R) and Itanium(R)
supercomputers, storage and visualization products from Silicon Graphics
(NYSE: SGI), a growing list of technology providers today announced plans to
license powerful SGI technologies for deployment around the world.
Recognizing SGI's technology leadership and quality focus, we are confident
that we will deliver superior offerings to our customers by standardizing on
SGI's architecture.com/solutionintegrators . Such risks and uncertainties
include long-term program commitments, the performance of third parties, the
sustained performance of current and future products, financing risks, the
ability to integrate and support a complex technology solution involving
multiple providers and users, and other risks detailed from time to time in
the company's most recent SEC reports, including its reports on Form 10-K and
Form 10-Q."
The Cray X1 predecessor system has turned in record results on
large, challenging scientific and engineering applications:

-- An Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC )
unstructured mesh computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
application ran at a sustained speed exceeding one teraflop on
a Cray X1 supercomputer with 256 multistreaming processors.5-kilometer CONUS simulation for a 12-hour time period with
15-second time steps (the results of the 2.

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-- Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have run
scientific applications up to 25 times faster than before with
the Cray X1 system and achieved a 50 percent performance
improvement, on a processor-to-processor basis, over Japan's
Earth Simulator on the widely used parallel ocean programme
(POP v1.

About The Cray X1E Supercomputer System

The new Cray X1E supercomputer nearly triples the peak performance
of its predecessor, boosting the peak processing power available in a
single cabinet from 0.com

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materially from those anticipated by the statements above.

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The new system, which features the world's fastest processors
and highest computing density, nearly triples the peak performance and
price performance of the predecessor Cray X1(TM) system that has set
records on weather, engineering and scientific research applications .

In December 2004, Warsaw University's Interdisciplinary Centre
for Mathematical and Computational Modeling (ICM) became the
first customer to receive a Cray X1E system. The Cray system as a data processing
engine will provide the basic infrastructure to understand the Earth
System and to make the information and products to support sound
decision-making for national policy and management."
According to ICM Director Marek Niezgodka, "The Cray X1E
supercomputer promises to deliver the two great advantages of using
smaller numbers of simple, powerful processors within a balanced
architecture: better computational capability and a smaller
communications barrier . Building on years of experience in
designing, developing, marketing and servicing the world's most
advanced supercomputers, Cray offers a comprehensive portfolio of HPC
systems that deliver unrivaled sustained performance on a wide range
of applications.

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All other trademarks mentioned herein
are the property of their respective owners. MPT's Virtual
Power Centers can outperform most mainframes and supercomputers for a fraction
of the cost.S. It offers a
significant improvement in price performance over its predecessor,"
said Peter Ungaro, Cray senior vice president of sales, marketing and
service.

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"We have identified SGI as a worldwide leader in this segment., is a leader in high -performance
computing, visualization and storage.
The AHPCRC demonstrated the use of the Fifth Generation
Mesoscale Weather Forecast Model (MM5) on the Cray X1 system
to produce 5-kilometer resolution weather forecasts for the
entire Continental United States (CONUS), and to produce a
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C. Shaw Research and Development selected SGI's NUMAlink
interconnection technology to create the network fabric in a massively
parallel hardware architecture for applications in computational
biochemistry ," said Marty Deneroff, director of Engineering at D."
"SGI's technology will help Signate scale its VOIP PBX solutions to meet
the most demanding needs of mission critical enterprise telephony , including
voice and videoconferencing, videomail, and other next-generation IP
services," said William Boehlke, CEO, Signate."
"As a leading Australian manufacturer of server solutions, IPEX has
recognized the need to expand our offerings with high end, large,
multi-processor computing solutions," said Yaron Schwalb, technical director,
IPEX.sgi.
Massively Parallel Technologies (MPT), a Colorado-based company, delivers
high-performance computing through Virtual Power Centers (R), Internet-based
hubs designed for specific computationally intense applications.
The Cray X1E supercomputer is aimed at the critical computing
needs of classified and unclassified government , academic research,
and the weather-environmental, automotive, aerospace, chemical and
pharmaceutical markets.

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"SGI is the ideal foundation from which we can affordably deliver a
powerful volume exploration option to Synapse," said Clayton Larsen, vice
president of marketing and network development, Fuji. "They offer a computer
industry-standard approach to visualization, combined with a proven record of
developing sophisticated technologies that ultimately become mainstream.

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SGI is actively engaging OEMs, Systems Integrators (SIs) and channel
resellers.

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SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics , Inc., in the United States and/or other countries worldwide.
"The BioTech VPC is our first commercial offering and is an essential part
of MPT's success. These
include the technical challenges of developing high performance
computing systems, government support and timing of supercomputer
system development and purchases, the successful porting of
application programs to Cray computer systems , reliance on third-party
suppliers, the uncertainty raised by last-time buy deadlines from
vendors of certain key components for the Cray X1E system, Cray's
ability to keep up with rapid technological change and Cray's ability
to compete against larger, more established companies and innovative
competitors .

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SGI's newest technology licensees include:

-- D. Linux is a
registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today
announced the availability of the Cray X1E(TM) supercomputer, a major
upgrade to the company's record-setting Cray X1(TM) scalable vector
product., Europe and
Asia:

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