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http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2010/january/imperial_college.html

World Leading University Selects SGI® Altix® ICE 8200 EX With Latest Intel® “Nehalem” Architecture for Core HPC Requirements

FREMONT, Calif., and Reading, England — January 6, 2010 — SGI (NASDAQ: SGI), a global leader in HPC and data center solutions, today announced that Imperial College London, one of the UK’s most prestigious educational establishments, has selected SGI Altix ICE 8200 EX, a Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) solution, to add to its central high performance computing (HPC) service.

Consistently rated among the world’s best universities, Imperial is a science-based institution with a global reputation for high quality teaching and academic research. Imperial College required an advanced computing solution for students and researchers to conduct course work and research that depend on extremely complex process modeling. The college selected the SGI dual-rail Infiniband supercomputer, Altix ICE 8200 EX, which uses the latest Intel® Xeon® Nehalem processors.

Well done to SGI with this announcement, it’s interesting to note that they are using x86 powered servers for their HPC service, I’m off to read up more about it and the SGI solution.

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