Then , the user places a
finger on the FingerKey reader for verification of the template.
Recognition Systems was named recipient of the 2004 Application
Market Penetration Leadership Award for access control and time and
attendance applications in Frost + Sullivan's study, World Biometrics
Market . SGI and Nallatech plan to offer new
products and services based on SGI's RASC technology.

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About UL

Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) is an independent,
not-for-profit product -safety testing and certification organization. Phone is 408-341-4100.
"SGI's RASC technology offers HPC users a cost-effective way to achieve
substantial application performance gains," said Dave Parry, senior vice
president and general manager, Server and Platform Group, SGI.

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Today, its services extend to helping
companies achieve global acceptance, whether for an electrical device ,
a programmable system, or an organization's quality process.brighamscully."

First milestone for multi-paradigm computing
Riding the current wave of interest among HPC users in FPGA solutions , SGI
RASC technology signals a major step forward in the flexibility and capability
of industry standard computing systems. By
uniting previously disparate computing architectures with SGI's scalable
shared-memory architecture, SGI aims to improve productivity by creating the
first supercomputers capable of supporting and combining different
computational approaches.

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Verification takes less than
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With long expertise in technical and scientific computing , SGI developed
its RASC technology for key applications in several markets. Initial testing has shown a range of
applications performance gains ranging from 42x to well over 100x.

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Recognition Systems Biometric FingerKey Readers Achieve UL/CSA Certification; Fingerprint Scanners Meet Rigorous UL Canadian and British Quality Standards

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205-M1983. These tests were performed in accordance
with the British Standard for Alarm Systems -- Access Control System
for use in Security Applications, BS EN 50133 -2-1:200. Optional proximity reader, memory
and Ethernet versions are also available.

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Photographs /Recognition Systems. Similar to the supercomputing
revolution 20 years ago and the emergence of cluster computing systems a
decade later, RASC offers the chance to increase application performance by
orders of magnitude. With offices
worldwide, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., in the
United States and/or other countries worldwide.

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"When selecting biometric readers to verify authorized access to
buildings and prevent fraud in membership applications, it's
imperative that they have the highest possible quality," emphasizes
Recognition Systems Product Marketing Manager William Kennedy . Building on its household name in the United States, UL is
becoming one of the most recognized, reputable conformity assessment
providers in the world. The world sales leader of
biometric verification devices, Recognition Systems serves an
international clientele from its headquarters in Campbell , Calif.
Traditionally these applications are limited by general-purpose processors
that set limits on overall application performance.

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Parry added, "With RASC, SGI combines the performance benefits of using
application-specific hardware for core algorithm acceleration with the
scalability and ease of use of the NUMAflex global shared-memory architecture
to once again push the limits of HPC performance while maintaining a low cost
of ownership for our customers. Intel and Itanium are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries
in the United States and other countries.0283

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Since its founding in 1894, UL has held the undisputed reputation as a
leader in product-safety testing and certification within the United
States.

About Recognition Systems

With over 120,000 hand geometry units throughout the world reading
millions of hands each day, Recognition Systems, founded in 1986, is
the pioneer and only manufacturer of the leading two biometric
technologies, hand geometry and finger scan. Recognition
Systems is the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand Corporation's
Security + Safety Group's Electronic Access Control Division .
To create an ecosystem around RASC that will streamline adoption, SGI has
a strategic collaborative arrangement with Nallatech to develop new business
opportunities within the HPC market.
"We 're extremely excited by the prospect of a reconfigurable computing
solution based on SGI's shared -memory architecture," said Allan Cantle,
president and CEO of Nallatech.

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Systems , the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand's (IR) Security +
Safety Electronic Control Systems, announced today that its FingerKey
DX series of biometric fingerprint readers have been investigated and
passed the requirements contained in the Underwriter Laboratories'
(UL) Standard Access Control Systems , UL 294, as well as the
requirements contained in the Canadian National Standard for
Miscellaneous Signaling Equipment, CSA C22.
The FingerKey DX fingerprint access control reader is a low-cost
biometric alternative designed to secure smaller user populations. It
includes a keypad and LCD display.com .sgi.

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The user simply enters a PIN code or presents a proximity
card, which calls up a template to scan.
UL has tested products for public safety for more than a century. Some examples
include the following:

* Oil and gas: time analysis of oil flow and nearly any applications using
Fast Fourier Transform algorithms
* Defense/Intelligence: signal processing, edge detection and pattern
recognition routines
* Bioinformatics: compare and contrast routines for searching molecule or
DNA databases
* Medical imaging: detailed image processing and rendering
* Media: broadcast and post-production transcoding (format conversions),
image processing, watermarking, motion estimation, and data conversion

Soaring Performance Gains
SGI customers using systems enhanced with SGI RASC technology already have
seen enormous increases in application performance -- without the expense of
adding more compute nodes or processors . A concept
pioneered by SGI, multi-paradigm computing enables a single system
architecture to meet the needs of a wide array of technical applications.

Silicon Graphics, SGI, Altix, the SGI cube and the SGI logo are registered
trademarks, and Silicon Graphics Prism, NUMAlink, RASC, and The Source of
Innovation and Discovery are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc.

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In addition to
Nallatech, SGI has also developed relationships with other industry-leading
FPGA technology providers -- including Celoxica, Mitrionics, Starbridge
Systems, Synplicity and Xilinx -- as well as using standard Verilog or VHDL
formats -- to customize their RASC-equipped SGI systems. Reconfigurable computing technology is a vital
component of our multi-paradigm computing vision and a will be a significant
benefit to many of our customers.

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"The UL
and CSA certifications assure that's what customers get with
Recognition Systems FingerKey readers.com. To support this industry-wide effort
and further extend its high-performance computing (HPC) leadership, Silicon
Graphics (NYSE: SGI ) today unveiled an advanced hardware solution based on
SGI(R) Reconfigurable Application-Specific Computing (RASC(TM)) technology
capable of increasing application performance by hundreds of times over
conventional systems. SGI's vision is to
provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative
breakthroughs of the 21st century.

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The introduction of SGI RASC technology represents the first major
milestone in the company's vision for multi-paradigm computing.

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Because
reprogramming a processor historically required high levels of expertise,
FPGA -based acceleration has yet to broadly penetrate HPC markets.933.

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"
In addition to the testing required for UL 294 standards, the
following operational tests were also performed on the FingerKey
readers -- Impact Test, Supply Voltage Variations, and Dry Heat, Cold
and Variable Ambient tests. The new reconfigurable
computing technology is available today as an add-in module that seamlessly
operates with SGI's Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processor-based servers and
visualization systems. SGI's RASC
solution set provides a unique combination of capabilities aimed at both
enhancing performance and optimizing ease-of-deployment, including:

* An FPGA-aware version of the Gnu Debugger (GDB) built on the current the
GDB command set, allowing simultaneous debugging of both the application
and the FPGA
* An abstraction layer that enables serial or parallel FPGA scaling
* RASC API and core services library that provides tools to develop
reconfigurable computing elements in a multi-user, multi-processing
environment
* Collaborative development with third-party HLL tool vendors
* SGI's leadership and technology contributions to OpenFPGA, an industry
working group devoted to ensuring that FPGA technologies support
powerful HPC and enterprise applications
* Direct connection of the FPGA hardware into the NUMAlink fabric ,
providing low-latency, high-bandwidth and tight integration of
application-specific and general purpose computing elements in a single
shared-memory environment
* Virtually limitless scalability of a system's FPGA processing
capabilities through the ability to connect multiple RASC expansion
modules into a single shared-memory system

Together, these capabilities allow RASC-enhanced instances of SGI(R)
Altix(R) servers and Silicon Graphics Prism (TM) visualization systems to speed
computationally intensive applications by hundreds of times over non-optimized
systems.

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Ingersoll-Rand website is www.

SGI Extends High -Performance Computing Leadership With Reconfigurable Computing Technology

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NOTE TO EDITORS: For a downloadable, high-resolution photograph of
a FingerKey unit, go to www. "Early testing indicates our collaboration
with SGI will result in extraordinary performance increases, far surpassing
customer expectations., and can be
found on the Web at http://www.933.

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These data-intensive applications typically run a core set of computing
routines, or algorithms, which often consume a majority of total compute time.
SGI's RASC solution is specifically designed to overcome these challenges
by easing the implementation of FPGA technology, making dramatic application
performance enhancements available to more users than ever before. Yet unlike these earlier revolutions, SGI RASC technology
preserves existing investments in legacy systems by allowing upgraded systems
to run a broad range of applications on a single 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. All other trademarks mentioned
herein are the property of their respective owners.

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Business Editors

CAMPBELL, Calif .2 No.
The FingerKey readers joins Recognition Systems' popular HandKey
II Hand Geometry readers , also UL 294 listed.
SGI RASC technology enables users to achieve unmatched performance,
scalability and bandwidth for data-intensive applications critical to oil and
gas exploration, defense and intelligence , bioinformatics, medical imaging,
broadcast media, and other data-dependent industries.

MEDIA CONTACT
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Increasingly, users are
turning to Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) that can be programmed - or
reconfigured - by the user for a specific use or application. The FPGA device
then serves as a dedicated compute engine for specific routines."

SILICON GRAPHICS -- The Source of Innovation and Discovery(TM)
SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc.com
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Both are used in access
control and identification applications while hand geometry is used
for time and attendance applications. New FPGA Technology Lets Users Customize Hardware
To Accelerate Mission-Critical Applications by Over 100x

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Just as
supercomputers and clusters changed the face of computing, industry leaders
are rallying around an emerging trend aimed at accelerating application
performance: reconfigurable computing.4519

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