Herbert Edelsbrunner, co-founder and board member of Raindrop Geomagic
and a professor of computer science and mathematics at Duke
University , has been elected to the American Academy of Arts +
Sciences' 2005 class of Fellows., To safely develop
new drugs from organic compounds and to develop more stable aircraft and
satellites by harnessing the compute power of shared-memory architecture from
Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI), the Office of Information Technology and the
Office of Research as well as the College of Science and the Mathematics
Department at Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, VA, recently selected SGI(R)
compute and visualization technology. One such drug
is the anti-cancer agent paclitaxel (patented as Taxol ), which is actually
derived from the bark of a Pacific yew tree.vt. 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.773.

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Edelsbrunner
gained international acclaim for his research in algorithms, geometry
and topology. Benefiting from Dr.

A new SGI(R) Altix(R) high-performance computing system, purchased in
April, is up and running and almost 100 percent booked by faculty researchers
and graduate students, primarily in applied mathematics, high-altitude
aerospace and mechanical engineering, and quantum chemistry, which is aiding
drug discovery."

Quantum Chemistry To Develop New Chiral Drugs
In the drug research area known as natural product chemistry, samples of
organic compounds from around the world are collected and scientists are
frequently able to develop new drugs based on these compounds. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property
of their respective owners.

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Anything dropped into the
environment that wants to optimally reach the goal merely has to sense
these gradients and follow the path of the wave back to its source. "All you have to do is
follow your nose. The technology is also likely to
find important application in the Philips vision of Ambient
Intelligence -- environments that are aware of our presence and
responsive to our needs. The University also purchased , in the same month, a Silicon Graphics
Prism(TM) visualization system with four Intel Itanium 2 processors , 4GB of
memory and two ATI(R) graphics processors, to jump-start a scientific
visualization initiative . It is critical to precisely match the "hands.

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This year's Fellows include Nobel Prize-winning physicist
Eric Cornell, Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist, sculptor
and painter Jeff Koons, Academy Award-winning actor and director
Sidney Poitier, journalist Tom Brokaw, Google co-founders Sergey Brin
and Larry Page, and dramatist Horton Foote. Waterman Award, and has received
numerous government and industrial grants to further his work., and has wholly owned subsidiaries in Europe and Asia. The SGI systems will be used as
centralized resources available to all faculty and researchers , and to easily
port a host of scientific codes to the open systems Linux(R) OS. The SGI Altix system has all of these features. With more than 100 research centers, the
university also consistently ranks among the top institutions in
industry-supported research and near the top 10 in the number of patents
issued each year., is a leader in high-performance
computing, visualization and storage .

Silicon Graphics, SGI, Altix, NUMAflex, 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.

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With activities in
the three interlocking domains of healthcare, lifestyle and technology
and 160,900 employees in more than 60 countries, it has market
leadership positions in medical diagnostic imaging and patient
monitoring, color television sets, electric shavers, lighting and
silicon system solutions.

Raindrop Geomagic Co-Founder Edelsbrunner Elected to American Academy of Arts + Sciences

C. We went from a system that was over five
years old to the Altix. With annual research expenditures of
about $170 million, Virginia Tech consistently ranks among the top research
universities in the United States.

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Dorst at
today's annual meeting of the NYIPLA in New York (USA), not only
recognizes the innovation and hard work that the two Philips
scientists put in to develop the technology and get it patented.
"I remember listening to a math lecture on the conceptual problem
of shifting a grand piano and quickly coming to the realization that
using a classical approach you just would not have the computing power
to do it in real time," said Dr.
"It is an honor to be elected by the Academy," says Edelsbrunner.

Virginia Tech Speeds Scientific Discovery with SGI Technology

, had purchased a 16-processor SGI Altix system a year
ago. Today, most drugs we take are a single chiral
orientation. Virginia's largest university with 25,600 students, their
main campus includes 100 buildings, 2,600 acres, and airport, as well as an
adjacent corporate research center, Virginia Tech can be found on the Web at
http://www.edu

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Karen Trovato , Principal Member of
Research Staff in the Interventional Guidance Department of Philips
Research ."
A second advantage of the technique is that it is easily adapted
to any goal-centered application , provided you can model interaction
between one or more goal-centered optimization parameters and the
environment.philips.
Fellows are nominated and elected to the Academy by current
members .

About Raindrop Geomagic

Raindrop Geomagic (www.
One of the most important things the University's Research Division
required was the ability to port a variety of codes developed by faculty
members, in addition to community-based codes developed through a consortium
of researchers around the world, as well as publicly available domain codes. The second advantage Altix offers is the wide variety
of scientific and engineering programs that is available-or can be made
available -for the system because of Linux. Crawford."

Applied Mathematics for Aircraft and Space Systems
The Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Mathematics at Virginia Tech
brings faculty from various disciplines together to work on research projects.

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Philips Scientists Win Prestigious '2005 Inventor of the Year' Award for Work on Path Planning

Their method is so
successful at optimizing computerized route-planning operations that
it has won Dr.
The intensity of a wave at any given point in this mathematical
model represents a particular path-planning optimization
characteristic such as distance from the goal.geomagic.C. In April 2005, Virginia Tech, purchased a SGI Altix
high-performance system with 64 Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors and 256GB of
memory through SGI's Higher Education and Research VAR James River Technical,
Inc. We
require systems to be very fast, with very large system memory , and very large
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Leo Dorst the '2005 Inventor of
the Year' award from the New York Intellectual Property Law
Association (NYIPLA ), one of the USA's leading organizations for the
development and administration of intellectual property interests.

Natural Product Chemistry, Applied Mathematics and Aerodynamics Research Get
Performance Leaps from Shared-Memory Architecture

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.

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News from Philips is located at
www. Dr.
Dr.com) is based in Research Triangle
Park, N. The Altix will allow us to do much larger
calculations than we've ever been able to do, so far.
Simply put, it is a system that's reliable, very easy to get on to, to run, to
get successful runs and to be able to look at results in a timely manner.com .

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The
award, which was presented personally to Dr.
Instead of trying to continuously compute a complex set of
equations based on Newtonian physics (the laws of motion), which takes
an inordinate amount of time, Trovato and Dorst adopted a radically
different approach to path planning.research.
"I look forward to the induction ceremony and meeting all the
distinguished members.
Edelsbrunner is the author of more than 150 research papers and has
two books to his credit. His mathematical theory for restructuring any
shape or surface from an unorganized set of 3D data points forms the
theoretical underpinnings of the company's signature software
products, Geomagic Studio and Geomagic Qualify.
Edelsbrunner's research, Raindrop Geomagic has become the worldwide
leader in automated solutions for creating production-quality 3D
digital models of any shape from physical objects or existing digital
data. The Silicon Graphics
Prism (TM) visualization system will be configured as part of an immersive
visualization theater environment for a variety of scientific research. The very
large memory is especially appealing because the complicating factor in chiral
molecules is that you may actually have not just two possible hands, but a
thousand possible hands. If there are any
vibrations in it, we will be able to mathematically model those parts and
determine how and where we can control them.

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"Then on hearing the ideas of Leo Dorst, I knew that between
us we could come up with the solution.3 billion in 2004.
"There are two main advantages of SGI Altix," said Kevin Shinpaugh,
director of research and cluster computing, Virginia Tech. The first is the
high-performance 64-bit processors. More specifically, it is derived
from one "hand" of a chiral molecule taken from yew tree bark, and then
synthesized in a laboratory . It was discovered that infant deformities resulting from
Thalidomide use in the late 1950s/early 1960s came from distributing the
drug's entire chiral collection. "In particular, we're looking at building
a large space antenna, being able to deploy it in either low- or mid-Earth
orbit and then being able to control it, point it, etc., and can be found on the Web
at http://www.

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Researchers loved it; almost immediately, the system was over-booked by
400 percent or more. Both systems run the true 64-bit Linux environment. T.0283

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Trovato and Dr.philips. Edelsbrunner co-founded Raindrop Geomagic with CEO and
president Ping Fu in 1996 and still serves as the company's chief
technical consultant. The University has already placed limits on the users to
enforce fairness and plans to implement a queueing system in the future that
would keep the machine at 100 percent utilization while allowing researchers
access to as many CPUs as they need for their program. "Researchers value their time probably as much as anything, and
in terms of setting up their code, they care about good utility, getting good
returns for that investment in time, and reliable and stable computing . "These kinds of calculations tend to be
pretty intense, and they really stress almost all parts of the computer. Most noted for its study of flutter of aircraft
wings, researchers developed rigorous mathematical models for the unsteady
aerodynamic loads and proposed feedback laws to control flutter .com
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Karen Trovato and Dr.
Granted under a patent titled 'Method and Apparatus for Path
Planning' this innovative technology adds to the extensive patent
portfolio that has come out of Philips Research -- one of the largest
patent portfolios in the world generated by a private research
organization."
An accomplished mathematician and scientist, Dr. The
company's technology is used in applications such as digital
dentistry, historic preservation of the Statue of Liberty , redesign of
a retro Harley-Davidson gas tank, and quality inspection to ensure
that circuit breakers will last 400 years. Daniel Crawford, associate professor, chemistry, at Virginia Tech,
was one of the first professors to leap at the chance to study chiral
molecules on the new SGI Altix system . Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds
in several countries.

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They proposed a computer
representation in which the 'goal' (the required destination in the
case of simple route mapping ) radiates a series of waves into a
mathematical model of the environment."
"The research community in higher education is a key driver in leveraging
the power of today's science and technology and the sharing of ideas to create
the scientific and technological breakthroughs of tomorrow," said Dave Parry,
senior vice president and general manager, Server and Platform Group, SGI.

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For example, by evaluating inputs from temperature sensors and
smoke detectors distributed throughout a building, an intelligent fire
alarm system could automatically route you to the safest exit rather
than the nearest exit, indicating the way with illuminated signs or
relaying directions to your mobile phone. He is the only computer scientist to be awarded the
National Science Foundation's Alan T."
Using the wrong hand of a chiral molecule , or using the entire molecule, can
be tragic. Herdman, director of the Center, and also director of research
computing, works with a group that is using partial differential equations to
build accurate mathematical models that are firmly grounded in physics and
engineering principles, which , in turn, lead to analysis and simulations of
aircraft and space systems. 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 waves spread out,
interacting with the environment (for example, as they meet solid
objects ) in a way that locally changes the gradient of their
corresponding optimization characteristic.
"It is a bit like locating a mature lump of cheese in a labyrinth
of caves," said Dr Leo Dorst, now an assistant professor at the
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
"What shocked us is the ease with which the researchers were able to get
applications to execute in the Altix system 's large, shared-memory
environment," said Erv Blythe, vice president of information technology,
Virginia Tech.
"Our current project, which is a joint effort with DARPA, NASA Langley and
the Air Force Research Labs, is to develop accurate mathematical models for
large space systems," said Herdman .

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"
One advantage of the method is that for many applications the
amount of real-time computing power required is well within the
capabilities of mobile/portable devices such as cell-phones and PDAs.com/newscenter

----Dr. He
will be inducted on October 8 in an annual ceremony at the Academy's
headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. More than 3,000 users
worldwide turn to Raindrop Geomagic to provide the technology for
customizing products, automating processes, and increasing throughput.
Terry L.sgi. Intel and Itanium are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United
States and other countries.

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Dr.
Researchers who are used to working on clusters are seeing a stark difference
in terms of reliability and stability with Altix . From my perspective, this
looks like one of the best investments we've made in research computing in the
last several years."

About Virginia Tech
Founded in 1872, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
popularly known as Virginia Tech, has evolved into a comprehensive university
of national and international prominence., in the United States
and/or other countries worldwide.

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NEW YORK----Whenever you want to plan
a route from A to B, whether it is driving somewhere in your car or
getting a robot to carry out complex maneuvers, the chances are you
can do it faster and more efficiently using an algorithm developed by
two senior scientists at Philips Research. Essentially, one of the Itanium 2 processors that we
are using now is equivalent to all 16 of the processors in the older system ,
in terms of performance.
"The performance of SGI's NUMAflex architecture, coupled with the portability
and ease of use inherent in its open-standards Linux operating environment,
are important factors in enabling these breakthroughs.2371

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It is
also an endorsement of the value of software patents by one of the
world's leading patent organizations. Another example cited by
Karen Trovato is a car that automatically maneuvers itself in and out
of tight spaces such as parking bays.com/newscenter

About Royal Philips Electronics

Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI)
is one of the world's biggest electronics companies and Europe's
largest, with sales of EUR 30."
Virginia Tech, which consistently ranks among the top research
institutions in the U.S. There are so many different
programs that different departments need, and the Altix was really the only
system that had the capability to run these programs and run them very fast. The SGI Altix is a tool to enable
us to provide approximations for solutions to these space systems, and also
give us simulations.

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High-resolution pictures are available from:
http://www. "In quantum chemistry we carry out
fairly large scale modeling of individual molecules using the principles of
quantum mechanics," said Dr. Altix also makes it easy to use third -party software.

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Edelsbrunner was selected for his
outstanding contributions to his discipline and society at large.
Dr. We at SGI look forward
to seeing the fertile minds at Virginia Tech use their new Silicon Graphics

Prism and Altix systems to produce advances that benefit society and
humanity.

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