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By: Mark Longwell

December 16, 2014 2:14 pm

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SGI wins large DoD deal for ICE X supercomputer with SLES

SGI, as referenced in their blog at http://blog.sgi.com/sgi-wins-big-with-dod/ has secured another high profile government account for their ICE X supercomputer running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. This system is for the Air Force Research Laboratory (ARFL) and if benchmarked today, it would be in the Top 10 of the Top 500 supercomputer list. Further […]

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By: Mark Longwell

August 13, 2014 7:10 am

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SGI continues HPC Leadership with SUSE

SGI announced on August 6th  at http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2014/august/graph500.html that their SGI® UV™ 2000 became the first single node SMP to exceed 100 GTEPS, as verified by the Graph 500 benchmark test for measuring large data volume processing by supercomputers. The Kyushu University Institute of Mathematics for Industry (IMI), in conjunction with the Institute […]

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By: Mark Longwell

July 28, 2014 7:16 am

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SGI Achieves Top 4 out of 5 Most Efficient Supercomputers on TOP500 List with SUSE Linux

SGI recently announced that their ICE X supercomputer platform garnered 4 of the top 5 most efficient supercomputer rankings for standard x86-based systems, including the #1 position. The systems are at the Irish Centre for High-End Computing, T-Systems, and the Atomic Weapons Establishment- Spruce A and Spruce B. All of these systems are running […]

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By: Mark Longwell

December 5, 2013 9:28 am

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And a Winner of the Huawei Excellent Core Partner Gold Award Is…SUSE

This year’s Huawei Core Partner Convention in Shenzhen, China, was a milestone in SUSE’s eight-year partnership with Huawei, now the world’s large telecommunications equipment company:  SUSE received Huawei’s Excellent Core Partner Award. How special was this award? Huawei has 800-plus partners and suppliers. About 120 core partners gathered at the […]

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By: Mark Longwell

August 7, 2013 10:57 am

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On The Path To Customer Success

Attending a partner's sales event is always a rewarding experience, even if it's not always 100% positive. Meeting with the sales teams of our partners is not always a love fest, after all, because the people in the field meeting their customers and selling our products alongside their own often meet with concerns that need […]

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