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SGI Altix Surpasses Competitors

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050331/sfth018.html?.v=5
SGI Altix Surpasses Competitors by Up to Eight Times in New HPC Challenge Benchmark Tests

- Altix Dominates 64-Processor Servers From IBM, Cray and Sun, While 1,008-Processor Altix Captures Lead in Three Key Tests

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI - News) today announced its award-winning SGI® Altix® 3000 system has beaten comparable servers from IBM, Cray and Sun on performance tests that comprise the new HPC Challenge Benchmark. The results reveal that SGI Altix delivers as much as eight times the performance of IBM servers and four times the performance of Cray supercomputers in key categories.
Results submitted March 2 by SGI show that a 64-processor SGI Altix system bested similarly configured servers from IBM, Cray and Sun on five of the HPC Challenge (HPCC) Benchmark's list of eight tests. The HPCC benchmark extends the Linpack benchmark used to determine the well-known Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers.