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Silicon Graphics, Inc. The SGI® Altix® Family Vlastimil Hebelka Manufacturing Account Manager SGI Proprietary and Confidential, NDA Required

Silicon Graphics Providing the Industry’s Highest. Performing Compute, Storage and Visualization Products • Focus is exclusively the technical computing market • Technology is designed to enable the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the 21 st century • Products and services are mission critical to government and defense, science and research, manufacturing, energy and media industries Images Coutesy of Magic Earth LLC, Weta Digital, Laboratory for Atmospheres, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Coryphaeus Software, Inc. , Parametric Technology Corporation SGI Proprietary slide no. 2

Problems are Getting Increasingly Complex Bumper, hood, engine, wheels Bumper Crash dummy E-crash dummy Entire car Organ damage Car image courtesy of EAI; Torso image courtesy of SCI Institute, NLM, Theoretical Biophysics Group of the Beckman Institute at UIUC; Crash image courtesy of Livermore Software Technology Corporation SGI Proprietary slide no. 3

State-of-the-Art Problem-Solving: SGI’s Customers Government Science Energy Astronomical Simulation, Drug Development, Genome Modeling Seismic Processing Engineering Analysis Crash testing Rendering Visual Simulation, Satellite Image Processing Medical Simulation, Scientific Visualization Reservoir Modeling Styling CAD Scene Modeling Satellite Data Management, Distributed Weather Data Distributed shared medical data Distributed Seismic Data Product Data Management Video Serving, Data Management Weather Modeling, Signal Analysis, High Simulation Performance Computing Advanced Visualization Storage SGI Proprietary AA Manufacturing Media Images courtesy of the Laboratory for Atmospheres at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Molecular Simulations Inc. , Landmark Graphics Corporation, BMW and ESI Group, and WETA Digital slide no. 4

Strategic Focus Areas High Performance Computing • SGI® Origin® family • SGI® Altix™ family • NUMAlink™ • Scalability • Performance • Multi-paradigm computing SGI Proprietary slide no. 5 Storage • SGI® TP 9000 storage arrays • CXFS™ • DMF/TMF • SAN and NAS servers • Data lifecycle management • Heterogeneous file sharing Advanced Visualization • Onyx® • Tezro™ • SGI® Reality Center® • Infinite. Reality® • Infinite. Performance™ • Visual Area Networking

Tailored Solutions with Modular SGI® NUMAflex™ Architecture Web serving: Small, integrated system CPU Genomics: Compute cycles Signal processing: Networking and compute Memory Database/CRM/ERP: Storage Media streaming: Access storage and networking Traditional supercomputer: Compute, networking, storage I/O SGI Proprietary slide no. 6

Modular SGI® NUMAflex™ Architecture System Interconnect CPU & Memory System I/O Standard I/O Expansion Performance: High-bandwidth interconnect with very low latency Flexibility: Tailored configurations for different dimensions of scalability Investment protection: Add new technologies as they evolve Scalability: No central bus or switch; just modules and NUMAlink™ cables High-Bandwidth I/O Expansion Graphics Expansion Storage Expansion SGI Proprietary slide no. 7

Architecture Designed for HPC; Choice of Deployments NUMAflex™ Global Shared-Memory Architecture Balanced, scalable performance Operating environment optimized for HPC Low-latency memory access Easily Deployable MIPS® and IRIX® SGI® Origin® Family SGI Proprietary slide no. 8 AA Intel® Itanium® 2 and Linux® SGI® Altix® Family

SGI® Origin® Family Drives Mission-Critical Applications Worldwide powerhouse in simulation, science, defense • Scalability and performance made Origin the best choice for the DOD’s SUPERCODING homeland security project • Real-time capabilities support Hydro-Quebec’s real-time simulation of the power grid • Big-data architecture is ideal for US Space Command’s efforts to detect, identify and track man-made objects in space • Balanced real-world performance is critical to Germany’s Waterway Engineering and Research Institute’s efforts to analyze the impact of planned construction on waterways and flood zones Images courtesy of US Air Force Space Command BAW SGI Proprietary slide no. 9 AA

SGI® Altix™: Scaling Linux® to New Altitudes Intel® Itanium® 2 processors Optimized Linux stack & middleware SGI NUMAflex™ shared memory architecture The World’s Most Complete Linux Solution Stack The World’s Most Scalable Linux Solution SGI Proprietary slide no. 10

Altix®: Open Standards Leadership • Scalability Linux® Kernel Scaling – World-record SSI scalability 256 512* – Unique supercluster scalability – Large global shared memory supports complex, Supercluster Scaling 512 data-intensive applications • Expand On Demand Flexibility – Scale processors, memory, I/O independently – Cost-effective customized solutions 2048* Global Shared Memory 8 TB 32 TB* • Performance – World-record memory and I/O bandwidth – Industry-leading floating point performance – System and operating environment tuned for HPC applications • Open Standards – Itanium® and Linux drive applications availability and cost-effective solutions – Upgrade and expand processors, memory, I/O – Seamlessly adopt new industry standards SGI Proprietary Image courtesy: NASA Ames * Expected availability: late 2004 This slide contains forward-looking statements. The results and forecasts as stated may vary. Other risks and uncertainties relating slide no. 11 to this slide may be found in the "Safe Harbor" statement at the beginning of this presentation.

Altix®: Breakthrough Deployments Breakthrough applications Chemistry and Biology Gaussian, Amber, Blast, Charm, Accelrys and more Oak Ridge National Lab, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, National Cancer Institute, many universities Manufacturing Tata Motors, Skoda, many more Physical Sciences COSMOS, NASA, University of Queensland, Total, Japan Institute of Statistical Mathematics, many more Large shared memory Oak Ridge National Labs (2 TB), Japan Institute of Statistics and Mathematics (1. 96 TB), NRL (1 TB), and others Large processor scalability NASA Ames (512 p), NRL (384 p), SARA (416 p), Total (552 p), and others Grid computing COSMOS, Netherlands National Supercomputing Facility at SARA, and others Hybrid solutions Wichita State University, BP, and others Early adopters expanding their deployments Total, NASA Ames, NRL, and others LS-Dyna, Abaqus, Star-CD, NASTRAN, Ansys and more Modeling of oceans, weather, earth, astronomy, energy, and more Breakthrough technologies Proven performance Image courtesy: NASA Ames Images courtesy of the University of Cambridge, Molecular Simulations Inc. , Skoda Auto, and NASA Ames SGI Proprietary slide no. 12

SGI® Altix® Family of Servers and Superclusters Enabling Linux® Throughout the Enterprise • Unified architecture • Scales from 1 P to 1000 s of processors • Best price and performance at every level Hybrid Solutions w/ 3 rd Party Linux Solutions SGI® Altix® 350 Servers and Clusters SGI® Altix® 3000 Servers and Superclusters Image courtesy: NASA Ames Desktops SGI Proprietary Edge/32 -bit Edge servers slide no. 13 Mid-Range Divisional Capability

The Altix® 350: “Expand on Demand” Growth Path 1 -16 P/2 -192 GB CPU Expansion Module 1 -12 P/ 2 -144 GB Memory Expansion Module 1 -8 P/ 2 -96 GB 1 - 4 P/ 2 - 48 GB Base Unit: 1 or 2 P/2 -24 GB SGI Proprietary slide no. 14 Right-size systems for the ultimate price/performance I/O Expansion (4 -32) Module • • Independently scale CPU, memory, I/O One Linux® instance to manage Investment protection & leverage current assets Allocate budget and resources to ongoing needs

SGI Altix - A Complete Solution for Linux HPC I 000’s of drivers, tools, applications, devices SGI Professional and Customer Services (unrivaled system integration and support) SGI Infinite. Storage and Visualization on Linux Typical Linux Solutions (industry-leading scalability and speed) SGI Pro. Pack™ and SGI SW enhancements for HPC SGI® NUMAflex™ and NUMAlink™ (4 th-generation modular supercomputing architecture) Intel® Itanium® 2 processor family (Built from ground up for high performance computing) Industry-standard Linux® Foundation of SGI and Intel Industry Experience and Leadership SGI Proprietary slide no. 15

Linux® for Prime Time · Standard Linux O/S - Allows users to run thousands of standard Linux applications - Brings new applications to the platform (e. g. Oracle®) · Open Source Enhancements - Make standard applications run faster - SGI has made several important contributions to Open Source - XFS® file system; XSCSI for large-volume I/O · Choice of Operating Environment - SGI-built option for maximum HPC optimization (Red Hat®* binary compatible) - Out-of-box Su. SE for maximum compatibility/standardization · Altix® specific enhancements - MPT and array services for message-passing optimization - CPU sets and memory placement - CXFS™ heterogeneous HPC file system - Hierarchical storage management - Performance Co-Pilot™ - XVM for large-volume I/O *SGI Advanced Linux Environment 2. 1 is compatible with Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2. 1 for the SGI Proprietary Itanium Processor, but is not sponsored by or endorsed by Red Hat, Inc. in any way. slide no. 16

Visualization Product Line Silicon Graphics® Tezro™ Visual Workstation • Powerhouse performance and reliability for visualization • Multiprocessing, and digital media: – Quad-processor capable – Higher-bandwidth memory and I/O architecture – 3 x price/performance improvement Image courtesy of Molecular Simulations Inc. SGI Proprietary slide no. 17 Silicon Graphics® Onyx 4™ Ultimate. Vision™ Visualization System • World’s most scalable visualization system— 40 x the price/performance • Solves system bandwidth limitations of PCs and clusters • Raising the bar in visualization

SGI® Storage Solutions • SGI offers the world’s most advanced data management capabilities – SGI storage solutions are deployed in the world’s most data-intensive environments – Unique capabilities like the SGI® CXFS™ shared file-system allow customers to access up to an exabyte of data in a single file-system • Users are able to: – Transparently share data everywhere without replication – Scale as the business and application grows no matter how fast or how large – Migrate data over time based on the value of the data or cost of storage without affecting accessibility SGI Proprietary slide no. 18 Images courtesy of Dr. Arthur W. Toga, The Laboratory of Neuro Imaging; American Museum of Natural History; Industrial Light and Magic, Lucasfilm Ltd; Image courtesy of Parametric Technology Corporation.

Summary SGI • Addresses the increasingly demanding needs of HPC users with innovative technologies designed to address the petascale problems of the 21 st century • Provides capabilities not addressed by commodity clusters, that can significantly increase computing productivity • Leads the industry in advancing Linux® into scalable production environments through community based efforts • Enables new discoveries through solutions that integrate compute, data life-cycle management, and advanced visualization • Provides superior, open alternative to proprietary systems, with full scalability from mid-range to supercomputer, superclusters SGI Proprietary slide no. 19

Silicon Graphics, Inc. Altix® 350 ANSYS User Group Meeting SGI Proprietary and Confidential, NDA Required

Altix® 350: Best-in-Class Mid-Range HPC Solution • Best-in-Class Price – Lowest pricing for scalable mid-range (4 p and above) - average $5, 400/processor USLP – Affordable entry point for Altix® 3000 -caliber solution - starts at $12, 199 USLP • Best-in-Class Performance – Superior performance & scalability up to 16 P – Incrementally scale I/O, memory, processors • Best-in-Class Open Solution – Optimized Linux® platform for enhanced manageability, stability – 100% commitment to Linux, technology leadership in Linux community SGI Proprietary slide no. 21

Altix® 350 Powerhouse Mid-range Server ONE OPERATING SYSTEM • Superior performance & scalability from 1 to 16 processors • Best price/performance mid-range server • Ideal for departmental application servers, technical database, throughput clusters • Independently scale I/O, processors, memory • One Linux® instance to manage • NUMAlink™ 4 ring topology • Cluster to 1000 s of processors using industry-standard interconnects 1 - 16 P / 2 -192 GB 1 - 12 P / 2 -144 GB 1 - 8 P / 2 -96 GB 1 - 4 P / 2 -48 GB Base Unit: 1 or 2 P / 2 -24 GB Only scalable system featuring both Standard and new Low Voltage Intel® Itanium® 2 processors SGI Proprietary slide no. 22

Altix® 350 Front & Rear IO 9 or IO 10 SGI Proprietary slide no. 23

Altix® 350 Server 16 P Ring Topology Bisection Bandwidths 4 Processors = 3. 2 GB/s 8 Processors = 1. 6 GB/s 12 Processors = 1. 06 GB/s 16 Processors = 800 MB/s SHUB Hops Remote Latency (ns) SGI Proprietary slide no. 24

Where Altix® 350 Shines! Departmental Server Database Server Throughput Clusters SGI Proprietary slide no. 25 Flexible resource scalability (processors, memory, I/O) to meet evolving compute requirements. Departmental “workhorse” with best overall mid-range performance and throughput. Hold large datasets in memory that is shared across processors. Extremely high I/O eliminates common database processing bottleneck. Dynamically allocate system resources to efficiently process diverse/volatile job mix. Apply large memory (up to 192 GB) where most effective.

Altix® 350 for Throughput Clusters • Ideal for throughput workflows • Shorter time-to-solution: – Reduces need for job decomposition and loadbalancing – Eliminates need to move data across a cluster • Lower cost clustering: – Larger nodes require less interconnect fabric – Pooled resources eliminates need to over provision cluster – Decreased software licensing costs – Simpler system administration and development costs • Fits easily into mixed HPC environments – Supports all major programming models SGI Proprietary slide no. 26 Job 1 Job 2 Job 3

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