Articles about Sgi Japan
Red ink deeper at SGI as sales shrink
Jorge Titinger, who was tapped to be the CEO at server and supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics back in February, has his work cut out for him amind slowing sales and mounting losses.
It is a situation that many CEOs at SGI (and at rival Cray) have found themselves in time and time again. But SGI is now in a new fiscal year and …
SGI buys back spun-out Japanese unit
Supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics wants a lot more business in Japan, the world's third largest economy. To get that business, the new SGI (the combination of Rackable Systems and Silicon Graphics) is buying back a Japanese unit that the old SGI sold off when it went into Chapter 11 bankruptcy back in May 2006.
In a …
UK nuke lab, Korean Air Force buy SGI supers
Supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics Inc (SGI) has sold two of its shared memory Altix UV systems to the UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) nuke lab and an Altix ICE 8400 cluster to the Korean Air Force.
The company is also making processing capacity on its Cyclone HPC cloud service available to customers in Japan who have …
SGI (almost) doubles sales, (almost) halves losses
Silicon Graphics' latest financial report shows that it's growing and moving towards profitability – but it's not quite there yet.
If there were ever a time when SGI needed to make a big sale to get some free PR and possibly a big wad of cash to do a monster supercomputer deal, it's now. And it might just happen.
The company – …
Bull, SGI tag team on Japanese nuke petaflopper
French supercomputer maker Bull, working in conjunction with sometime partner and sometime rival Silicon Graphics, has landed a contract to supply Japanese fusion researchers with a supercomputer rated at nearly 1.3 petaflops of number-crunching oomph and based on a future "Sandy Bridge" Xeon processor from Intel.
The …
SGI right at home in red ink
The economic downturn is making an already difficult financial situation for supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics even more arduous.
For the second fiscal quarter ended in December, SGI reported revenues of $82.8m, down 8.1 per cent. Product revenues, including those from SGI Japan (which the company only owns 10 per cent of …
LSI buys struggling ONStor
Storage array, software and silicon vendor LSI Corporation has bought struggling clustered filer supplier ONStor for $25m, giving ONStor's venture capital backers at least a $105m loss on their investment.
The transaction is expected to close within thirty days and is subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions. …
