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SGI drives meteorology innovation
The AMS annual meeting arrives as more meteorological innovators than ever
are tackling their most complex forecasting and modeling problems with SGI(R)
solutions. Based in Reno, Nev.

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Visitors to the SGI booth (Nos. SGI Altix systems and
SGI(R) InfiniteStorage solutions help BAMS meteorologists run HPC
atmospheric modeling programs to predict the course of weather threats
such as hurricanes, severe thunderstorms , and unhealthy air quality.
-- NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility.

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ISSP will install the new system in an external commercial computer
center located in Toda-city of Saitama-prefecture. The Altix 3700 Bx2, based on the
industry-standard 64-bit Linux and the latest Itanium 2 processors, achieves
higher-speed processing and a price/performance improvement of up to 50% over
the earlier model, and with doubled density delivers more compute power while
requiring less space., and
can be found on the Web at http://www.
-- Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS)., DRI uses SGI
server and storage technologies to drive and manage mesoscale
meteorology models that help the institute deliver twice-daily
forecasts of fire weather and smoke information to meteorologists and
fire and air quality managers in California and Nevada. Fleet
Numerical leverages SGI solutions to run its Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere
Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS) model to predict weather and ocean
conditions in complex coastal areas of the world.

NOTE: Silicon Graphics, SGI, Altix, the SGI cube and the SGI logo are
registered trademarks, and Silicon Graphics Prism and The Source of
Innovation , and Discovery are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc., in the
United States and/or other countries worldwide.

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ISSP has since
opened a large-scale experimental facility and its supercomputer systems to
the researchers involved in a number of joint studies on solid state physics.
Solid state physics research is primarily conducted on both PCs and
large-scale computer systems. This will be a key factor for speeding up
research and boosting international competitiveness. SGI won the HMS contract over HP and IBM
due to the SGI Altix platform's blistering performance on the ALADIN numerical
weather prediction model and on MM5.
-- Desert Research Institute (DRI).

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Furthermore , the ability to seamlessly connect the Altix system with PCs
dedicated to preliminary computation enables us to expedite demonstrations of
new phenomena and materials computation in addition to new algorithms. The reader is
cautioned not to rely unduly on these forward-looking statements, which are
not a guarantee of future or current performance.

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"ISSP
has helped position Japan as a world leader in technology that today has
advanced the way we compute and communicate.
-- German Climate Research Center (DKRZ). 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.

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The 1,280-processor system, running the latest Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2
processors, will be the third largest high-performance supercomputer based on
the Linux operating system (OS) and delivered by SGI following the
announcements of the systems installed at National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) in United States and at the Japan Atomic Energy Research
Institute.
The Altix system to be installed is composed of two nodes, one as a
high-performance computing (HPC) server with 128 processors and the other as a
massively parallel computing server with 1,152 processors to support a variety
of user needs . Manage is a trademark of Scali.

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SGI Japan Delivers the Latest Large-Scale Linux Supercomputer for Joint
Studies in Solid State Physics

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.
"The new system has a very large number of processors under the control of
a single operating system; therefore we are able to exercise large-scale
computation without any special programming ," said Osamu Sugino, associate
professor, ISSP, the University of Tokyo. These risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to
differ materially from those described in such statements.com
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Meteorologists Worldwide Put SGI Solutions at the Forefront of Weather Prediction

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SGI will also demonstrate its Media Fusion technology powered by the
Silicon Graphics Prism(TM ) visualization system.

SGI delivers innovative technology to researchers and scientists employed
in the study of such phenomena as climate change, tsunami, ozone depletion,
environmental impacts in urban planning, groundwater pollution, and the
improvement of severe event and climate forecasting .com.
The reader is cautioned not to rely unduly on these forward-looking
statements, which are not a guarantee of future performance.

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ISSP has selected the Altix Bx2 because of the system 's high-performance
capabilities which are critical for meeting the institute's demanding
requirements .4GB/sec and lowest latency at
1 microsecond, each Altix 3700 Bx2 system is capable of scaling up to
512 processors in a single system. "At Fleet Numerical,
SGI HPC systems allow us to meet the very stringent timeliness requirements
that naval operations place on our models. "As leading meteorologists convene
to discuss their innovations at the AMS meeting, SGI is proud to see its
solutions enable vital breakthroughs in meteorological sciences. (See related press release.
HMS and INMET join a wide array of innovative SGI customers devoted to
weather forecasting and climate change research . Located at Ames Research Center
in Mountain View, Calif. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Beyond weather
prediction modeling, SGI solutions support satellite and radar image
processing and data management solutions for the terabytes of data managed in
this industry as well as the air and water quality modeling arena.

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com.
The past year's unparalleled sequence of major weather-related disasters
has pushed storm forecasts into the forefront of the public's consciousness. The
extraordinary memory demands of INMET's source code and the need for simple
code maintenance and updates were key drivers in the selection of SGI to
enhance the forecasting and simulation environment at INMET. Located at the Sede
Boqer campus of Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, the
institute uses an SGI Altix supercomputer to identify new mechanisms of
change in the biological diversity of arid areas, while examining
possible scenarios for the loss of animal and vegetation species
resulting from climate and environmental changes . All other trademarks
mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.

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This will greatly reduce a large
amount of labor required for programming, and we can promote the advantages of
large-scale computers in the research of solid state physics.
29 through Feb.)
Brazil's National Institute of Meteorology (INMET) also recently turned to
SGI to equip its Division of Numerical Modeling with SGI compute ,
visualization and SAN solutions. Based in Barcelona, Spain,
Meteocat uses SGI Altix servers as a platform for MM5 models to alert
civil defense agencies of rapidly changing weather conditions .
-- U. SGI's vision is to provide technology
that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the
21st century.

This news release contains forward-looking statements regarding the sale
of products that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those described in such statements.com
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, SGI Japan Ltd. The center will use the new
system, scheduled to be in full operation in March 2005, as the first pilot
case for national joint-use facility. We are honored to partner with
ISSP in their ongoing mission to serve the solid state physics community.
After a year that saw some of the most devastating weather systems in
recent memory, many of the world's top meteorologists will convene here Jan.D.
-- Catalan Meteorological Service (Meteocat). Because Earth system modeling
puts enormous burdens on traditional visualization solutions, DKRZ has
driven 3D visualizations on a Silicon Graphics Prism(TM) visualization
system, and recently boosted its graphics capabilities.

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933. 2 for the annual meeting of the American Meteorological
Society (AMS). Combined with today's high-resolution and compute-intensive
weather models, this puts an extraordinary burden on HPC," said Mike Clancy,
Technical and Scientific Director of the U. With the new solutions, INMET will run a
wide variety of complex meteorological sciences models and applications ,
including the High Resolution Model, the High Resolution Brazilian Model, the
Grid Analysis and Display System, and several in-house codes. These model
results are then used to simulate potential observations from the next
generation of geo-stationary weather satellites.

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NOTE: Silicon Graphics, SGI, Altix, Origin, XFS, the SGI cube and the SGI
logo are registered trademarks and CXFS, NUMAlink, The Source of Innovation
and Discovery are trademarks of Silicon Graphics , Inc.933. 354/455) will see powerful new
technologies designed to accelerate the large-scale simulations and analyses
that meteorologists need to run to quickly and accurately pinpoint weather
trends ., weather and
climate applications technical lead, SGI.sgi.

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SILICON GRAPHICS | The Source of Innovation and Discovery(TM)
SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc. 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.
For instance , to meet the rapidly increasing requirements of
ultra-short-range and short-range atmospheric forecasting , the Hungarian
Meteorological Service (HMS) recently selected SGI(R) Altix(R) as its new
weather forecasting supercomputer. The new SGI
solutions are expected to be installed in February. SGI Altix and
InfiniteStoragesolutions are helping this Chinese facility develop a
new , more accurate weather forecasting model.S. Navy's Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center .

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(President: Norio Izumi, HQ: Ebisu, Shibuya-ku) announced that it will deliver
its latest high -end Linux(R) server, SGI(R) Altix(R) 3700 Bx2, to the
Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP, Director: Kazuo Ueda, Location:
Kashiwa-city, Chiba-prefecture) in Japan as the new supercomputing system for
the institute.
The Altix 3700 Bx2 purchased by ISSP is the enhanced model of the SGI
Altix 3700 series that provides twice the bandwidth and processor density of
the Linux OS-based high-end severs. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds
in several countries.

This news release contains forward-looking statements regarding SGI
technologies and third-party technologies that are subject to risks and
uncertainties.
-- Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research .
-- Space Pole.

SILICON GRAPHICS | The Source of Innovation and Discovery
SGI , also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc., and can be
found on the Web at http://www.

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The
introduction of the new Altix system will enable scientists to predict complex
solid state phenomena at high accuracy and press on with leading-edge solid
state physics. Hitachi, Ltd.

MEDIA CONTACT
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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.
- - Nanjing University of Information Science + Technology., NASA's 10,240-processor Columbia Altix
supercomputer allows researchers to simulate decades of ocean
temperature changes in only days. This alliance of the Royal Meteorological Institute, the
Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, and the Royal Observatory of
Belgium deployed an SGI supercomputing and storage solution to predict
the changing weather conditions for Belgium's 10.3 million citizens,
study the upper atmosphere, and identify climate trends.

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Japan's Institute for Solid State Physics Improves Performance by 20 Times: New 1 280-Processor SGI System to Advance Research

ATLANTA , 86th Annual American Meteorological Society Meeting, To quench society's relentless thirst for accurate
forecasts, meteorologists the world over are seeking ever more powerful tools
to help them predict the behavior of weather systems, oceans and climates.
"It is clear that more accurate forecasts are needed to instill a level of
confidence that will allow lives to be saved due to improved evacuation and
disaster response activities," said Ilene Carpenter, Ph.
Meteocat serves the Catalonia region, which includes the Pyrenees
mountains, a region that is vulnerable to flash flooding . An
SGI Altix supercomputer helps CIMSS, as part of the Space Science +
Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to model the
state of the atmosphere over extremely large domains.

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"
The existing supercomputing environment is comprised of two different
types of computers, vector and scalar systems, which will be replaced in March
2005. Each node is connected to storage area network (SAN) via two
2Gb/sec (gigabits per second) Fibre Channel connections. SGI 's vision is to
provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative
breakthroughs of the 21st century. Deployed in two phases
(the first expected in February and the second by May 2006), the new system
will also allow HMS to exploit even higher resolution numerical models with
more complex dynamical and physical computations. Such risks and
uncertainties include financial and contractual commitments, the installation
and performance of hardware and software, reliance on performance of
third-party partners, timely delivery of the system, acceptance of the system
by the customer, and other risks detailed from time to time in the company's
most recent SEC reports .

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Researchers demand that the computational
environment is seamlessly connected. The SAN environment
with SGI(R) InfiniteStorage shared filesystem CXFS(R) enables high-speed file
sharing among all computers including the massively parallel computing server
and the HPC server as well as a front -end server based on a SGI(R) Altix(R)
350 with two processors. The front-end server will dispatch jobs from users
either to the HPC server or to the massively parallel computing server. With
offices worldwide, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.933."
At the SGI booth, AMS attendees will be able to view a range of NOAA
animations, a demonstration of Viz5D visualizations, and a selection of
tsunami and hurricane models from Florida State University.
BAMS supplies more than 200 broadcast television customers in the US
with real-time, site-specific forecast data, modeled using technology
from SGI.S. ORNL
researchers use industry-standard SGI servers and storage solutions to
project the impact of increased carbon emissions and to study
mitigation strategies.

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To
meet their rapidly escalating demands, they are turning to high-performance
computing (HPC) solutions from Silicon Graphics (OTC: SGID). As a first for
AMS attendees, SGI will spotlight the new SGI (R) Altix(R) 4700 blade system,
revolutionary blade server that delivers higher density while enabling new
levels of performance and flexibility. Media Fusion allows users to
link and interpret massive amounts of data acquired through various data
sources into one common operating picture to make effective decisions. With offices
worldwide, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.

MEDIA CONTACT
Marla Robinson
marlar@sgi.

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In addition, with SGI(R) NUMAlink(TM ) interconnect technology which
provides the industry's fastest bandwidth of 6. Using an industry -standard network
interconnect, some Altix 3700 Bx2 systems have been configured as a cluster
with thousands to ten thousands of processors.sgi. Navy's Fleet Numerical
Meteorology and Oceanography Center, in Monterey, CA. More than half of the world's major meteorological research and
forecasting sites use SGI(R) compute, storage and visualization solutions.

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ISSP, an adjunct facility of the University of Tokyo, was established in
1957 as a joint-use research institute on solid state physics .
"In over four decades of service to the scientific community, ISSP has
earned a superior reputation as a leading international center of materials
science," said Bob Bishop, chairman and chief executive officer, SGI., as a prime contractor of the ISSP's new system
received order from ISSP and replaced HITACHI SR8000 by Hitachi SR11000 vector
systems in addition to SGI's system. (NYSE: SGI), is a leader in
high-performance computing, visualization and storage. With the help of the new Altix system,
HMS scientists can compute forecasts in just a few minutes, instead of the
hour required on the institute's current hardware. DKRZ serves as
a "laboratory" for scientists studying the climate system with coupled
numerical models of the most important physical, chemical and
biological processes., is a leader in high-performance
computing, visualization and storage.

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The institute expects to realize about 20 times performance improvement
over the existing scalar system; a 384-processor SGI(R) Origin(R) 2800.4519

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"Timeliness has always been an essential factor in numerical weather
prediction. These include:

-- Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems (BAMS).

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