NASA Selects SGI to Provide Largest Shared-Memory System in the World

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SGI (Nasdaq: SGIC) and NASA today announced that the agency has selected a record-setting SGI(R) Altix(R) supercomputer in its evaluation of next-generation technology to meet future high-performance computing (HPC) requirements. The system was acquired as part of NAS Technology Refresh (NTR), a four-phase procurement process that eventually will replace the Columbia supercomputer system, powered by SGI Altix.