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NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to Tackle Analysis of 30 Years of Environmental Data With SGI Technology Center to Gain In-Depth Insights Into Weather and Climate Changes Since 1970s With SGI Altix Servers and 200TB InfiniteStorage Solution MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Silicon Graphics (NYSE:SGI) today announced that NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is upgrading its computing and data management capabilities with powerful SGI(R) Altix(R) servers and SGI(R) InfiniteStorage solutions. With the new SGI systems providing a platform for new and more powerful ways to analyze environmental data, Goddard engineers can leverage the latest codes from NASA to achieve a faster time-to-solution. Among the first projects scheduled for Goddard's new SGI resources is an initiative to reanalyze 30 years of Earth weather and climate data captured by satellites. Goddard's dramatic expansion of computational capability and data management technology will allow engineers to sift through and recalculate decades of information to arrive at more accurate conclusions and more in- depth insights about changes in the Earth's climate since the 1970s. "NASA was SGI's very first customer in 1982, and since then the agency and its scientific missions have helped us repeatedly push the limits of computing, visualization and storage technology," said Bob Bishop, chairman and chief executive officer, SGI. "Today's announcement is an excellent indication of what long-term strategic private-public partnerships can achieve." In a purchase completed earlier this month, the Maryland-based NASA facility acquired an additional compute and storage solution incorporating 3 SGI(R) Altix(R) 3000 systems with a total of 1,024 Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors and 2TB of global shared-memory, and the ability to store and manage another 200 trillion bytes, or terabytes (TB), of data with an SGI InfiniteStorage storage area network with the SGI InfiniteStorage shared filesystem CXFS(TM). To assess the NASA center's computing needs, SGI began collaboration in January with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), which oversaw leasing and integration. Among other key vendors in the collaboration are Altair Engineering, Inc., which integrated the PBS Professional workload management solution for Altix and InfiniteStorage deployment; DataDirect Networks, which provided networked technology support for the InfiniteStorage solution; and Intel Corp., which provides the scalable Intel Itanium 2 processors that drive SGI Altix systems. Each of these companies contributed to the final solution, the first components of which will be delivered to Goddard by early summer. SGI computing, visualization and storage solutions are particularly well suited to scientific applications, due in large part to SGI's third-generation NUMAflex(TM) architecture. This unique global shared-memory architecture enables researchers to hold entire data sets in memory, allowing for faster and more interactive data analysis, and resulting in more incisive conclusions. SGI's data storage and management is also enhanced with CXFS, the industry's fastest shared filesystem for storage area networks. CXFS cuts time to solution by eliminating file duplication and the time it takes to move large files over networks. SILICON GRAPHICS | The Source of Innovation and Discovery(TM) SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc., is a leader in high-performance computing, visualization and storage. SGI's vision is to provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the 21st century. 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. With offices worldwide, the company is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and can be found on the Web at http://www.sgi.com/. NOTE: Silicon Graphics, SGI, Altix, XFS, the SGI cube and the SGI logo are registered trademarks, and NUMAflex, CFXS and The Source of Innovation and Discovery are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc., in the United States and/or other countries worldwide. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in several countries. Intel and Itanium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. This news release contains forward-looking statements regarding the sale of products to the U.S. government and the installation of hardware and software that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in such statements. Such risks and uncertainties could include financial and contractual commitments, timely delivery of hardware and software, installation and performance of hardware and software, acceptance of hardware and software by the customer, reliance on performance of third-party partners and other risks detailed from time to time in the company's most recent SEC reports. MEDIA CONTACT Ginny Babbitt 650-933-4519 SGI PR HOTLINE 650-933-7777 SGI PR FACSIMILE 650-933-0283 DATASOURCE: SGI CONTACT: Ginny Babbitt of SGI, +1-650-933-4519, or ; or SGI PR Hotline, +1-650-933-7777, or SGI PR Facsimile, +1-650-933-0283 Web site: http://www.sgi.com/

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