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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQTH11430082007-1.htm SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — With a new CEO at its helm, SGI completed its fiscal year 2007 with the launch of a breakthrough blade system purpose-built for high-performance computing (HPC), while racking up significant customer wins across SGI’s server and storage product lines. The company also released financial results for the Fiscal Year 2007 today, http://www.sgi.com/company_info/investors/. The company’s fourth quarter, which ended June 29, was SGI’s first fiscal quarter under the leadership of Bo Ewald, who was named CEO in April. Working with SGI’s leadership and global workforce, Ewald has focused on positioning SGI for sustainable long-term growth and innovation through delivery of uniquely competitive, customer-focused solutions. New products and industry alliances In June, SGI unveiled SGI(R) Altix(R) ICE 8200, the first in a new line of bladed servers designed to close the growing gap between performance and user productivity. Built to accommodate large and varied scale-out workloads, SGI Altix ICE delivers the advantages of blade computing without forcing users to accept compromises in price/performance, power and space efficiency, reliability and manageability. Its ultra-dense rack architecture delivers up to 40 percent more compute performance per floor tile than competing blades. Meanwhile, the Altix ICE system’s highly efficient design minimizes demands on the data center’s space and power, helping to relieve the growing burden of housing, powering and cooling today’s HPC systems. Very cool, it’s good to see how the SGI blade solution is doing, the more alternatives in the blade landscape there are, the more effective the blade solution can be as the users can choose the right configuration and the right platform for their business, check it...