SEATTLE, SC|05, Nov. 15, 2005 -- Silicon Graphics (OTC Bulletin Board: SGID) today announced that its groundbreaking Silicon Graphics Prism(TM) systems swept top honors for visualization products in the 2005 HPCwire Innovation Awards. The readers and editors of HPCwire, the journal of record for the high-performance computing (HPC) industry, singled out SGI as the source of the most innovative HPC visualization technology while providing solutions that offer the best price/performance in the high- end visualization or graphics market.

HPCwire Publisher Tom Tabor presented SGI with four awards in ceremonies today at the SC|05 conference held here at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center.

HPCwire 2005 Readers' Choice Awards:

-- Most Innovative Visualization Product or Technology

-- Best Price-Performance in High-End Graphics or Visualization

HPCwire 2005 Editors' Choice Awards:

-- Most Innovative Visualization Product or Technology

-- Best Price-Performance in High-End Graphics or Visualization

"The verdict from HPCwire's global readership and its panel of editors and technology visionaries is very clear: Silicon Graphics Prism stands alone in delivering superior innovation and value," said Gabriel Broner, senior vice president and general manager, Visual Systems Group, SGI. "We are delighted to be honored by the world's most discriminating judges of technology once again, and we intend to continue to deliver cost-efficient solutions that enable our customers to break down barriers to understanding and insight."

"While the top tier of computation has seen its share of benchmarks, white papers, analyst reports, and legislative studies, HPCwire's Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards indicate how those on the front lines of both commercial and academic high performance computing have offered their personal input on exactly where the cutting edge of technology lies," said Thomas B. Tabor, president of Tabor Communications, Inc, publisher of HPCwire. For its Readers' Choice Awards, HPCwire annually polls a representative sample of its worldwide readership. HPCwire Editors' Choice awards were selected by a panel of HPCwire editors and luminaries.

SC|05 attendees can see the award-winning Silicon Graphics Prism system in action in the SGI Booth (No. 602). SC|05 demonstrations include a Boeing 777 collaborative workflow simulation driven by a 128-processor Silicon Graphics Prism system with six graphics pipes and 256GB of memory. Taking place in the SGI, Intel and Boeing booths, the demo recreates a Boeing factory quality control scenario to show how multiple technologies can combine to turn a time-consuming but essential quality control process into a seamless exchange of information and insight -- even when participants are miles apart. The unique demonstration also incorporates SGI OpenGL Vizserver(TM) software ensuring all demo participants can access and interact on demand with any part of a 60GB Boeing 777 model using laptops, or virtually any type of computer.

Combining the power of SGI's award-winning, scalable, shared-memory visualization architecture with leading 64-bit Linux(R) scalability found in SGI Altix(R) HPC servers and supercomputers, the Silicon Graphics Prism family delivers the best of both worlds with unbeatable visualization performance and Linux innovation, all in a single platform. Based on best-of-breed industry-standard components, with Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors and ATI(R) graphics processors, the system is both powerful and economical. For more information on Silicon Graphics Prism, visit: http://www.sgi.com/products/visualization/prism/ .

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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.

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