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We are honored to partner with
ISSP in their ongoing mission to serve the solid state physics community. 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.

This news release contains forward-looking statements regarding SGI
technologies and third-party technologies that are subject to risks and
uncertainties.

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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.933.

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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. Researchers demand that the computational
environment is seamlessly connected.com.

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Company Delivers Highly Scalable High Performance Computing Solutions for
BioTech Community

LOUISVILLE, Colo.
Dell has twenty-one supercomputing clusters in the TOP500 list with three
entries ranked in the top fifty. Their commitment to the high-performance
computing cluster (HPCC) market delivering scalable standards-based clusters
fits well into MPT's VPC vision of affordable, on-demand, supercomputing power
using commercial off-the-shelf hardware. "ISSP
has helped position Japan as a world leader in technology that today has
advanced the way we compute and communicate. 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.
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.sgi.

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as its hardware provider for its
BioTech Virtual Power Center (VPC). ISSP will install the new system in an external commercial computer
center located in Toda-city of Saitama-prefecture.

Both types of computing involve breaking apart a problem into many pieces and assigning each part to a computer, but the nodes of a distributed computer normally not communicate with each other while performing their computations, because they may be great distances apart.

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Solid state physics research is primarily conducted on both PCs and
large-scale computer systems. With
offices worldwide, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif.

Parallel computing is a very similar field to distributed computing.

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Each node is connected to storage area network (SAN) via two
2Gb/sec (gigabits per second) Fibre Channel connections . 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.7777

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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.
"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. (NYSE: SGI), is a leader in
high-performance computing, visualization and storage. The reader is
cautioned not to rely unduly on these forward-looking statements, which are
not a guarantee of future or current performance.com
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Massively Parallel Technologies (MPT), a Colorado-based company , delivers
high-performance computing through Virtual Power Centers(R), Internet-based
hubs designed for specific computationally intense applications.

Many people have written libraries to help programmers write programs for parallel computers.

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"The BioTech VPC is our first commercial offering and is an essential part
of MPT's success. Dell's PowerEdge servers not only meet our first VPC
requirements but are well-positioned to support future VPC growth to
tens-of-thousands of nodes," said MPT's Chief Executive Officer, Scott Smith. SGI Japan Delivers the Latest Large-Scale Linux Supercomputer for Joint
Studies in Solid State Physics

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.

Some parallel computers are just regular workstations that have more than one processor in them; others are giant single computers with many processors (these are generally referred to as supercomputers); and others are networks of individual computers.

Parallel computers can run some types of programs far faster than traditional single processor computers, often termed the von Neumann architecture.

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Dell is an outstanding hardware vendor and a
business partner that will help make affordable supercomputing powers a
reality through MPT's VPCs. This will be a key factor for speeding up
research and boosting international competitiveness. The front-end server will dispatch jobs from users
either to the HPC server or to the massively parallel computing server., and
can be found on the Web at http://www .

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For additional information on Massively Parallel Technologies'
products and services, call (303 ) 926-8555 or visit its Web site at
http://www., 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.

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This includes searches, visualization, in silico
recombination, molecular dynamics, and molecular docking."
The existing supercomputing environment is comprised of two different
types of computers, vector and scalar systems, which will be replaced in March
2005.

Parallel computing is the science and art of programming computers that can do more than one operation at once, concurrently , during the same cycle, often via having more than one processor.

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massivelyparallel.com. Hitachi, Ltd .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.
"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.0283

Sites related to distributed computing are in Computers/Computer_Science/Distributed_Computing .

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, Massively Parallel Technologies
(MPT), a provider of on-demand high-performance computing, announced today
that the company has selected Dell Inc.
ISSP has selected the Altix Bx2 because of the system's high-performance
capabilities which are critical for meeting the institute's demanding
requirements .

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Powered by
HOWARD(TM), MPT's revolutionary system design and software solution provides
the fastest possible communication between multiple processors.
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.
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. 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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Massively Parallel Technologies Selects Dell as Vendor of Choice for Biotech Virtual Power Centers

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. 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., in the United States
and/or other countries worldwide. Intel and Itanium are trademarks or
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Information about supercomputers is located in Computers/Supercomputing.

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"Dell 's preferred account team did an exceptional job in responding to our
requests and demonstrating their expertise and commitment to the high
performance computing market."
The BioTech VPC will eventually support all aspects of computational
biotechnology. 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.

A network of computers configured to coordinate on computing problems is also called a cluster.

Information about writing programs especially for parallel computers is in Parallel_Computing/Programming.

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Programmers must explicitly specify how to divide up the computing work between all available nodes.

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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. These risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to
differ materially from those described in such statements.

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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

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 .

Programs that work on a single-processor computer don't automatically work on a parallel computer.

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MPT's Virtual
Power Centers can outperform most mainframes and supercomputers for a fraction
of the cost. SGI's vision is to
provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative
breakthroughs of the 21st century.