This liberation enables them to be far more
innovative and productive . ISSP expects to realize about a 20 times performance
improvement over the existing scalar system. 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.com. The viewer 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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One mineral found in the material brought back by Stardust is olivine, a
primary component of the green sand found on some Hawaiian beaches.

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Hosting a 10TB SGI(R)
InfiniteStorage TP9300 solution and 224GB of global shared-memory the
Altix will allow them also to analyze more effectively the large data
sets generated by cosmological hydrodynamic simulations., and can be found on the Web
at http://www.jsp?containerId=pr2005_02_24_115029

(2) SGI Altix 3000 Awards:
http://www. WASHINGTON, Samples from comet Wild 2 have
surprised scientists , indicating the formation of at least some comets may
have included materials ejected by the early sun to the far reaches of the
solar system.
Scientists have found minerals formed near the sun or other stars in the
samples returned to Earth by NASA's Stardust spacecraft in January.

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Comet Wild 2 seems to have had a more complex history than thought.

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These attributes have earned Altix an
impressive number of awards(2), industry-leading performance benchmarks and
groundbreaking technology achievements in its first two years including:

-- 100 percent year-over-year growth in the most recent quarter ending
December 2004
-- The 10,240 processor NASA Columbia system -- developed in under three
months -- ranked as the world's second-fastest computer(3)
-- More than 600 customer sites and nearly 1400 systems supporting more
than 40,000 Intel Itanium 2 processors
-- A global shared memory architecture that delivers data across nodes of
6. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several
countries.
Stardust passed within 149 miles of comet Wild 2 in January 2004, trapping
particles from the comet in an exposed gel. For
more information about Stardust on the Web, visit:

http://www.

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According to
IDC's recent Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker(1), which pinpoints global
server market sales growth at 6. (See
separate announcements: http://www.)

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"The collection of cometary particles is greater than we ever expected ,"
said Stardust Deputy Principal Investigator Peter Tsou of NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Stardust science team members presented their first findings this week at
the annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in League City, Texas.gov/stardust

For information about NASA and agency programs on the Web, visit:

http://www.

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Recently Japan's Institute of Solid State Physics (ISSP) and Stanford
Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) joined the hundreds of demanding researchers
and scientists that have turned to the Altix family of servers, clusters and
supercomputers for breakthrough results in the most important challenges
facing modern industrialized countries. Many Altix customers are eschewing their earlier
allegiance to UNIX(R) in favor of the price/performance edge that only a
system deploying industry-standard components can offer. These risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to
differ materially from those described in such statements.

(1) IDC Press Release, February 25, 2005
"Worldwide Server Market Maintains Strong Momentum in Fourth Quarter
and Hits $49 Billion in 2004 Revenues, According to IDC"
For the full year 2004, worldwide server revenue grew 6. A single grain of 10 microns,
only one-hundredth of a millimeter (.

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Users that have chosen the open, industry-standard Altix platform include:

-- This month ISSP will replace its existing supercomputing environment
made of both vector and scalar systems with a 1,280 -processor Altix
system. "Programming is much easier on Altix, and it fits in
nicely with our network of Linux desktop systems, which have migrated
from Sun machines and other UNIX.sgi.
Scientists have long thought of comets as cold, billowing clouds of ice,
dust and gases formed on the edges of the solar system. 17.

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Former UNIX Devotees Choosing Linux
IDC also noted in the recent Quarterly Review that Linux sales have grown
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"We set out to rock the technical compute world with Altix and almost
daily we hear how this system has enabled users to exceed their expectations ,"
said Dave Parry, senior vice president and general manager, Server and
Platform Group, SGI.

com/products/servers/altix/awards.

NASA's Stardust Findings May Alter View of Comet Formation

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Powerful Solutions Based on Industry Standards
Customers are drawn to the Altix platform for three key attributes: its
ability to readily support the problem at hand, versatility that lets
customers add to rather than replace the system, and performance that
consistently leads the industry. SGI's vision is to provide technology
that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the
21st century. 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
impact of competitive markets, the ability to integrate and support a complex
technology solution involving multiple providers and users, the acceptance of
applicable technologies by markets and customers, 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. This may alter the way
scientists view the formation and composition of comets.

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-- At the University of Washington astronomists rely on an SGI Altix
system installed July 2004 powered by 24 Itanium 2 processors to model
the life of the Milky Way from its inception billions of years ago
until today. IBM and DB2 are trademarks or registered trademarks of
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"We have found very high-temperature minerals, which supports a particular
model where strong bipolar jets coming out of the early sun propelled material
formed near to the sun outward to the outer reaches of the solar system," said
Michael Zolensky, Stardust curator and co-investigator at NASA's Johnson Space
Center, Houston.

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"The interesting thing is we are finding these high-temperature minerals
in materials from the coldest place in the solar system," said Donald
Brownlee, Stardust principal investigator from the University of Washington,
Seattle. The team at Johnson's curatorial
facility hopes to begin detailed scanning of the interstellar tray within a
month. Lockheed Martin
Space Systems, Denver , developed and operated the spacecraft.

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sgi., is a leader in high-performance
computing, visualization and storage.html

(3) TOP500 List for November 2004
http://www." The movies are images of the Stardust Interstellar Dust Collector
from an automated microscope at the Cosmic Dust Lab at Johnson.

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They may prove to be diverse bodies with complex
histories. 15. Samples have been distributed to approximately
150 scientists for study."
The grains are tiny, most smaller than a hair's width. They will initiate the Stardust at Home project.

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"In discussions with end users we consistently hear from the technical
computing community that they need solutions that can address complex problems
with increased fidelity, while decreasing simulation turnaround times," said
Earl Joseph, research vice president, High-Performance Systems practice, IDC.
"SGI's strategy is to develop systems that specifically address these
requirements. Scientists and
researchers driving this growth with Linux OS-based Altix systems are
achieving historic breakthroughs in automotive and consumer product design,
energy exploration, global warming research, aerospace analysis and other
computing efforts crucial to the health, security, transportation, and quality
of life of people around the world. The university selected Altix over both competing UNIX and
Linux systems.html

(5) SGI Altix Performance Benchmarks:
http://www. Thousands of them
appear to be embedded in the glass-like aerogel.

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SGI CY2004 Server Sales Jump 20 Percent Growing Three Times Faster Than the Global Server Market

, Silicon Graphics
(NYSE: SGI) today announced that worldwide sales of its servers and
supercomputers grew 20 percent year-over-year in calendar 2004.
The company attributes this growth to customers increasingly choosing open
standards -based SGI(R) Altix(R) systems based on the Linux(R) operating system
and Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors .6% year over year. Oracle is a registered trademark
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0004 inches), can be sliced into hundreds
of samples for scientists.

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2 percent for the same period , SGI server
sales grew more than three times faster than the market.com/products/servers/altix/datasheets . The
findings suggest materials from the center of the solar system could have
traveled to the outer reaches where comets formed. But comets may not be
so simple or similar. Along with olivine , the dust from Wild 2
contains high-temperature minerals rich in calcium, aluminum and titanium.

After registering, Stardust at Home participants may download a virtual
microscope.

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The new Altix system will
enable ISSP scientists to predict complex solid state phenomena at high
accuracy and press on with leading-edge solid state physics.

-- SLAC's Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC)
installed in January a 72-processor Altix 3000 to investigate the birth
and death of the very first stars in the universe, in addition to many
other diverse astronomical objects and events, such as neutrons stars,
galaxy clusters, and galaxy collisions.top500. Its return capsule parachuted to
the Utah desert on Jan.

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Japan's Institute of Solid State Physics and Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center Join Ranks of Users Migrating to Powerful Linux Platforms

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. In particular, by leveraging standard technologies and focusing
its resources SGI is able to improve technical applications scope and
performance.4GB/sec and lowest latency at 1 microsecond -- the industry's
fastest(4 )
-- Consistent record industry-standard benchmarks(5) regularly outpacing
competing systems from HP, IBM, Sun and others and dominating the
respected STREAM(6) list of the 20 fastest systems in terms of memory
bandwidth
-- A portfolio of leading high-performance computing applications that
have been certified and optimized include:
-- More than 200 leading and commercially available 64-bit applications
-- The wide range of applications running on Itanium 2 processors
-- Leading database applications including IBM(R) DB2 Universal
Database, Oracle(R) 10g database and Sybase(R) Adaptive Server(R)
Enterprise

As the Altix platform evolves, SGI plans to drive further growth in four
key areas:
-- Small- to large-node cluster solutions
-- Price/performance improvements with Itanium 2 family
-- Industry-standard Linux operating system solutions
-- Density and heating/cooling solutions

Additional Altix system technical and availability information is posted
on http://www.sgi.

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"High-performance computing is clearly shifting from
closed proprietary models to an open model that offers users a more
interactive, versatile solution. It is
among the most common minerals in the universe, but scientists were surprised
to find it in cometary dust. The Stardust
sample is primarily magnesium.
In addition to cometary particles, Stardust gathered interstellar dust
samples during its seven-year journey.

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com/altix."

Other leading worldwide organizations using Altix systems include the
Alabama Supercomputing Center, Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing,
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, BG Exploration + Production India
Limited , Centre for Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation, Hyundai
Motor Company, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, National Aeronautic and
Space Agency, and National Center for Supercomputing Applications.sgi.

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volunteers from the public to help scientists locate particles.

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sgi. "The collection includes about two
dozen large tracks visible to the unaided eye.

, manages the Stardust
mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.nasa.

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"One of the advantages of going with Altix over a more Beowulf-type
configuration was that the Altix installation was trivial compared to a
cluster of PCs," said Tom Quinn, astronomy professor at the University
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arrived at Johnson on Jan.

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SGI customers rely on Altix to drive
new advances in a broad range of vital research , including disease control,
comprehensive climate modeling, harnessing new sources of energy, and
designing safer and more efficient forms of transportation. With offices worldwide, the
company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.com/getdoc.html

(6) STREAM
http://www .edu/stream/top20/Bandwidth.
Olivine is a compound of iron, magnesium and other elements. The microscope will connect to a server and download "focus
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com/newsroom. "It seems that comets are not composed entirely of volatile
rich materials but rather are a mixture of materials formed at all temperature
ranges, at places very near the early sun and at places very remote from it. Participants
will search each field for interstellar dust impacts.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena , Calif.