SGI Racks Up Key Wins in Targeted Industries

Company Sees Global Adoption of Powerful, Energy-Smart Solutions

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 28 -- Along with announcing its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008, SGI (NASDAQ:SGIC) today spotlighted strong sales momentum across all its product lines and throughout every targeted market and region.

In Fourth Quarter, Continued Penetration in Key Markets

In the quarter that ended June 27, 2008 SGI continued its momentum as a supplier of high-performance, energy-efficient systems for commercial, industrial and technical customers. Among the company's key fourth quarter wins:

  --  Sony DADC purchased its second SGI(R) Storage Area Network (SAN)
      implementation to enable a Manufacturing On Demand (MOD) offering for
      its optical disc manufacturing facility in Terre Haute, Ind. The
      SGI(R) solution supports Sony DADC in offering existing clients orders
      as small as one disc for CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs and other media.
      This MOD system frees up Sony DADC's higher volume equipment, which
      also uses SGI technology to produce hundreds or thousands of discs at
      a time. The new implementation includes a four-core, 16GB SGI(R)
      Altix(R) 450 server, four SGI(R) InfiniteStorage Filesystem CXFS(TM)
      clients, a 24TB SGI(R) InfiniteStorage 4500 system, two Brocade 5000
      fiber channel switches, and an SGI(R) InfiniteStorage Data Migration
      Facility license to accommodate a 15TB data management environment.
      SGI Professional Services worked with Sony DADC to design both SAN
      environments.
  --  NASA has chosen SGI to supply its next major supercomputer, a
      20,480-core SGI(R) Altix(R) ICE system, after a competitive evaluation
      the space agency launched last year. The new SGI(R) system, to be
      installed this summer in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS)
      facility at Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, presents vast new
      opportunities for scientists and engineers who are attempting to
      tackle some of the largest and most complex problems in history. The
      supercomputer will be capable of generating 245 trillion operations
      per second (Teraflops). NASA also will deploy a next-generation SGI(R)
      InfiniteStorage InfiniBand disk solution capable of storing and
      managing 450 Terabytes (TB) of data -- an amount five times larger
      than the entire print collection of the Library of Congress. The
      installation also includes a 115TB SGI(R) InfiniteStorage NEXIS
      Network Attached Storage solution.
  --  GENCI (Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif), the French
      national high-performance computing (HPC) organization, acquired and
      is installing a massive supercomputing and storage solution from SGI
      at CINES, France's National Computer Center for Higher Education in
      Montpelier. An SGI Altix ICE system with 12,288 processor cores, each
      with 4GB of memory, the new supercomputer is capable of operating at
      147 Teraflops, making it one of the fastest supercomputers in the
      world. In addition to half a Petabyte of on-line disk powered by
      SGI(R) InfiniteStorage 4600 systems, GENCI is implementing SGI
      InfiniteStorage DMF. French researchers will use the system for
      climatology and sustainable development, space and aeronautical
      research, energy, life and materials sciences, and other disciplines.
  --  MTU Aero Engines invested in a 48-core, 384GB SGI Altix 450 solution
      to further optimize its SAP operational environment.
  --  The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), one of the
      largest state-owned oil giants in China, engaged SGI(R) Professional
      Services to design and implement a high-performance data visualization
      solution to study subsurface oil and gas deposits and determine the
      safest and most efficient ways to extract them. The SGI systems are
      being used to visualize data sets that today range from 500GB to 600GB
      in size in such geophysics applications as Landmark GeoProbe and
      Schlumberger GigaViz and Petrel. CNOOC selected two SGI(R) Virtu(TM)
      VS systems for its Zhanjiang facility, and three for its Beijing
      facility. CNOOC chose SGI because of its reputation for reliable,
      scalable visualization solutions.
  --  General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems purchased a 64-core, 1TB
      SGI(R) Altix(R) 4700 system to perform complex data processing. The
      system, selected after a competitive evaluation and benchmarking
      process, ties into a large StorNext SAN. In addition to price and
      performance requirements, a key criterion for selecting SGI was the
      company's ability to provide a security-certified implementation of
      Linux(R), and its responsiveness to the needs of the customer.
  --  The French Atomic Energy Agency, or Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique
      (CEA), extended the capacity of its SGI InfiniteStorage Data
      Migration Facility (DMF) environment to 5 Petabytes, giving CEA the
      ability to adapt to changing data access patterns on the fly without
      impacting productivity. At its Computing Center for Research and
      Technology (CCRT), CEA also added a 600TB SGI(R) InfiniteStorage10000
      solution. CEA researchers pursue breakthroughs in energy, information
      and health technologies, as well as defense and national security.
  --  Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), the German Weather Service, purchased
      SGI(R) Altix(R) shared-memory systems with a total of 472 processor
      cores and 2,844GB of memory for use as Oracle database servers in
      weather forecasting and climate studies.
  --  The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) engaged
      technical experts from SGI Professional Services as key developers of
      ESMF, or the Earth System Modeling Framework. ESMF is software
      infrastructure used at a broad spectrum of research and operational
      centers, including the National Weather Service, the Navy, Air Force
      and Army, NASA, and universities. ESMF enables models developed at
      these sites to be coupled together to form complex simulations used
      for climate prediction, weather and space weather forecasting, and
      hydrology.
  --  Working with the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial
      Research Organization (CSIRO), SGI demonstrated how a new blade-based
      SGI server could help CSIRO keep up with the demands of scientific
      research while addressing its finite power and space limitations. The
      demonstration led CSIRO to acquire a 128-core SGI Altix 4700 system
      ith 512GB of globally shared memory. The new SGI Altix 4700 system
      uses half the energy and commands just 25 percent of the data center
      space of CSIRO's four-year-old SGI(R) Altix(R) 3700 server, while
      delivering 28 percent greater performance. CSIRO will tie the new
      system into its existing 1.5PB SGI InfiniteStorage Data Migration
      Facility environment. SGI estimates the new installation will save
      CSIRO at least 288 Megawatt-hours of power over three years.
  --  Princeton University upgraded an existing SGI Altix system, creating a
      320-core Altix with 1,280GB of shared memory for use in astrophysics,
      computer science, engineering research and a range of
      compute-intensive research in pure mathematics. Princeton plans to add
      another 256GB of memory to the upgraded Altix, installed at the
      Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Education (PICSciE).
      The university will leverage the upgraded system, popular with
      researchers whose codes are optimized for shared-memory architectures,
      to support a growing number of users. To support a full spectrum of
      scientific codes, Princeton also maintains a 768-core SGI Altix ICE
      integrated blade system.
  --  Vandenberg Air Force Base turned to SGI for a comprehensive upgrade of
      the digital media infrastructure at its Major Test Range Facility Base
      (MTRFB). As part of a transition to high-speed, high-definition
      digital cameras, SGI is retooling MTRFB's digital media environment to
      accommodate additional data feeds, and new ingest, storage, editing,
      play-out and production capabilities. The solution includes an SGI
      Altix ICE system for rendering, SGI InfiniteStorage SAN, a real-time
      CXFS environment for transparent file sharing across platforms, a
      high-speed InfiniteStorage NAS solution, and Sony 4K digital
      projection system.
  --  In an effort to produce actionable intelligence fused from multiple
      sensors and digital media assets, The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
      purchased an SGI solution that integrates an SGI Altix 450 server, an
      InfiniteStorage SAN and a real-time CXFS environment into a very
      diverse heterogeneous compute and network environment -- all based on
      an open systems, high-speed InfiniBand LAN and WAN enabled
      architecture. The high-performance capabilities that SGI integrates
      into the solution helps NRL improve image acquisition, storage,
      retrieval and processing to deliver immediate insights to the
      battlefield.
  --  Several additional commercial wins, including sales to Sanofi-Aventis,
      Tata Motors, and a major online trading community.
  --  SGI also signed a Service Provider agreement with Verari Systems(R).
      As the latest member of the SGI Support Solutions Plus program, Verari
      will contract with SGI to provide world-class service and support to
      Verari customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa and in Asia Pacific
      regions.


  A Strong Close to a Strong Fiscal Year

Those Q4 sales helped to cap off a momentous year for SGI -- one that saw the company win some of the most headline-grabbing contracts in HPC. Major wins from fiscal year 2008 include:

  --  Total Exploration and Production, which deployed a 10,240-core, 20TB
      SGI Altix ICE system, the most powerful supercomputer ever installed
      at an industrial site.
  --  North German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN), with a 5,824-core SGI
      Altix ICE system with 15.8TB of memory and a Petabyte SGI
      InfiniteStorage 4600 system, demonstrating that SGI leads in solving
      the toughest scientific computing challenges.
  --  A 14,336-core, 28TB SGI Altix ICE system, acquired by state of New
      Mexico for the New Mexico Computing Applications Center.
  --  Chrysler, which invested in a 212-core SGI(R) Altix(R) Hybrid Cluster
      and an 11.5TB SGI InfiniteStorage solution for designing safer and
      more energy-efficient cars and trucks. Superior performance and
      flexibility were major factors in Chrysler's selection of SGI.
  --  And a host of other industrial and commercial customers, including
      Merck, National Basketball Association, Honda Racing and Sikorsky
      Aircraft.

Renowned for delivering energy-efficient solutions that reduce power and cooling costs for customers, SGI was the first server manufacturer to ship 80 PLUS(R) certified single-output power supplies for redundant data center applications. SGI also belongs to a number of industry organizations devoted to promoting energy efficiency and environmental responsibility. These include The Green Grid(SM) and the Climate Savers Computing Initiative(SM).

Award-winning SGI(R) servers, clusters and supercomputers leverage the power and scalability of Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors or Intel(R) Dual/Quad-core Xeon(R) processors.

Additional Resources:

NASA (press release May 6, 2008) www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2008/may/nasa.html

GENCI (Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif) (press release June 17, 2008) www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2008/june/genci.html

Total Exploration and Production (press announcement June 15, 2008) www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2008/june/top10.html

North German Supercomputing Alliance (HLRN) (press release July 3, 2008) www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2008/july/hlrn.html

New Mexico Computing Applications Center (press release January 28, 2008) www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2008/january/nmcac.html

National Basketball Association (press release April 14, 2008) www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2008/april/nba.html

"Supporting Honda's Environmental Approach to Formula One" article in SGI Magazine www.sgi.com/subscribe/sgi_magazine/08_june/08SupportingHonda.html

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