Company Sees Global Adoption of Powerful, Energy-Smart Solutions

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Along with announcing its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008, SGI (Nasdaq: SGIC) today 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 Silicon Valley, presents vast new
        opportunities for scientists and engineers who are attempting to
        tackle some of the largest and most complex problems in history. The
        supercomputer will be capable of generating 245 trillion operations
        per second (Teraflops). NASA also will deploy a next-generation SGI(R)
        InfiniteStorage InfiniBand disk solution capable of storing and
        managing 450 Terabytes (TB) of data -- an amount five times larger
        than the entire print collection of the Library of Congress. The
        installation also includes a 115TB SGI(R) InfiniteStorage NEXIS
        Network Attached Storage solution.
    --  GENCI (Grand Equipement National de Calcul Intensif), the French
        national high-performance computing (HPC) organization, acquired and
        is installing a massive supercomputing and storage solution from SGI
        at CINES, France's National Computer Center for Higher Education in
        Montpelier. An SGI Altix ICE system with 12,288 processor cores, each
        with 4GB of memory, the new supercomputer is capable of operating at
        147 Teraflops, making it one of the fastest supercomputers in the
        world. In addition to half a Petabyte of on-line disk powered by
        SGI(R) InfiniteStorage 4600 systems, GENCI is implementing SGI
        InfiniteStorage DMF. French researchers will use the system for
        climatology and sustainable development, space and aeronautical
        research, energy, life and materials sciences, and other disciplines.
    --  MTU Aero Engines invested in a 48-core, 384GB SGI Altix 450 solution
        to further optimize its SAP operational environment.
    --  The China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), one of the
        largest state-owned oil giants in China, engaged SGI(R) Professional
        Services to design and implement a high-performance data visualization
        solution to study subsurface oil and gas deposits and determine the
        safest and most efficient ways to extract them. The SGI systems are
        being used to visualize data sets that today range from 500GB to 600GB
        in size in such geophysics applications as Landmark GeoProbe and
        Schlumberger GigaViz and Petrel. CNOOC selected two SGI(R) Virtu(TM)
        VS systems for its Zhanjiang facility, and three for its Beijing
        facility. CNOOC chose SGI because of its reputation for reliable,
        scalable visualization solutions.
    --  General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems purchased a 64-core, 1TB
        SGI(R) Altix(R) 4700 system to perform complex data processing. The
        system, selected after a competitive evaluation and benchmarking
        process, ties into a large StorNext SAN.