SGI ALTIX 3000 SUPERCLUSTER WINS "BEST OF SHOW" HONOR IN PRODUCT DEBUT AT LINUXWORLD 2003

IDG Honors SGI for Enabling Supercomputing Capabilities in Linux Clusters

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Jan 23, 2003) -- SGI (NYSE: SGI) today announced receipt of "Best of Show" honors at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2003 for product excellence with the SGI® Altix(tm) 3000 family of servers and superclusters.

Under the banner "Scaling Linux to New Altitudes," SGI unveiled the SGI Altix 3000 in its world debut at the LinuxWorld conference yesterday in New York City. IDG World Expo, the LinuxWorld host company, presented SGI with the Best of Show award yesterday afternoon. The conference continues through Friday with ongoing demonstrations of the capabilities of the new SGI Altix 3000 superclusters in the SGI booth.

The Open Source Product Excellence Awards are sponsored by OSDN and presented in conjunction with UniForum Association in several categories, from Best Clustering Solution to Best Open Source project, to the exhibitors that most embody open-source innovation in their respective areas. The highly coveted Best of Show recognition was awarded this year to SGI for extending the supercomputing capabilities of Linux® with the new SGI Altix superclusters.

"With all of the incredible advancements that have been made in Linux over the last year, SGI is tremendously honored to have been selected among them as Best of Show," said Gary Geissler, vice president of engineering, SGI, who accepted the award. "Moreover, we are indebted to all of the members of the open-source community who have dedicated their efforts to scalable Linux functionality."

SGI recently announced the SGI Altix 3000 family of servers and superclusters, which combine SGI's supercomputing architecture with Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and the Linux operating system. SGI Altix 3000 is recognized as the first Linux cluster that scales up to 64 processors within each single-Linux-image node, and the first cluster of any variety to allow global shared memory access across nodes. SGI Altix 3000 has already produced record-setting results on high-performance computing benchmarks over the highest-end offerings from IBM, HP, and other vendors. (See separate releases dated January 7, 2003.) SGI is demonstrating these unique capabilities in its booth at the LinuxWorld conference this week.

About SGI

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