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SGI RACKS UP KEY WINS IN TARGETED INDUSTRIES.

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Along with announcing its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008, SGI (NASDAQ:SGIC) has spotlighted strong sales momentum across all its product lines and throughout every targeted market and region.

In Fourth Quarter, Continued Penetration in Key Markets

In the quarter that ended June 27, 2008 SGI continued its momentum as a supplier of high-performance, energy-efficient systems for commercial, industrial and technical customers. Among the company's key fourth quarter wins:

-- Sony DADC purchased its second SGI(R) Storage Area Network (SAN) implementation to enable a Manufacturing On Demand (MOD) offering for its optical disc manufacturing facility in Terre Haute, Ind. The SGI(R) solution supports Sony DADC in offering existing clients orders as small as one disc for CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray Discs and other media. This MOD system frees up Sony DADC's higher volume equipment, which also uses SGI technology to produce hundreds or thousands of discs at a time. The new implementation includes a four-core, 16GB SGI(R) Altix(R) 450 server, four SGI(R) InfiniteStorage Filesystem CXFS(TM) clients, a 24TB SGI(R) InfiniteStorage 4500 system, two Brocade 5000 fiber channel switches, and an SGI(R) InfiniteStorage Data Migration Facility license to accommodate a 15TB data management environment. SGI Professional Services worked with Sony DADC to design both SAN environments.

-- NASA has chosen SGI to supply its next major supercomputer, a 20,480-core SGI(R) Altix(R) ICE system, after a competitive evaluation the space agency launched last year. The new SGI(R) system, to be installed this summer in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at Ames Research Center in...

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