Wednesday, February 19, 2003
SGI has won a $26 million contract to supply the U.S. Defense Department with high-end technical computing machines, software and services over the next 42 months, the company said.
The deal uplifts SGI that has been struggling to recover after failing to expand its high-end servers into the general-purpose server market.
Selling products to government customers, particularly to those in the military, has been a mainstay of SGI's business for years.
The systems that the Defense Department will purchase include the Origin 3000 supercomputers, the Onyx 3000 variant for graphics-intensive applications, Origin 300 midrange machines, Total Performance 9500 high-end storage systems, and SGI's CXFS file system software.
The Aeronautical Systems Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio will install four 512-processor Origin 3000 systems, two 64-processor Origin 3000s, a 12-processor Origin 3000, and two four-processor Origin 300 systems.
In addition, the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center in Monterey, Calif., will get a new 256-processor Origin 3000. Whereas the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Miss., will install two 512-processor Origin 3000 machines.
By: DocMemory
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