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SGI offers 10 Gig across product line
Today's focus: SGI offers 10 Gig across product line
By Jeff Caruso
Silicon Graphics Inc. this week said it will offer 10 Gigabit
Ethernet connections on its servers, workstations, graphics
systems and storage devices.
SGI is offering the connectivity in the form of a PCI-X adapter
and is targeting it at those organizations that need to transfer
extremely large sets of data between systems. SGI says these
groups could include those in government, science and media.
For an example of a high-speed application that could use 10
Gigabit, SGI talks about "virtual cockpits" used for mission
training. Such simulations process terabytes of data in real
time to produce visual effects, SGI says. A high-speed network
would allow the data to be transferred from one simulator to
another to synchronize the training of multiple pilots at once.
Other uses include film and high-definition video content
transfer and delivery, for media companies that work with such
content.
The company will offer 10 Gig on its Altix servers and clusters,
Origin servers, Tezro workstations, Onyx visualization systems
and InfiniteStorage storage products.
SGI is using the 10 Gigabit Ethernet card from S2io to provide
the option for both 64-bit Linux and Irix operating systems.
S2io says SGI is its first customer for this card, which is
available today.
Copyright Network World, Inc., 2004
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