SGI Declares Linux as Driving Force in Innovation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SGI DECLARES LINUX AS DRIVING FORCE IN INNOVATION AT OPEN SOURCE BUSINESS
CONFERENCE

Dave Parry, SGI Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Server and
Platform Group, Keynote Speaker 

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (March 15, 2004) - Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today
announced its role as Gold Sponsor of the first Open Source Business
Conference (OSBC), to be held March 16-17 in San Francisco. Private
industry, universities and government research labs in the U.S. and around
the world are using Linux® operating system for 21st century science,
driving an ever increasing pace of innovation in the earth sciences,
astrophysics, physics, chemistry, and bioinformatics. In his presentation,
"Linux at the Core of HPC Applications for a Strategic Advantage," scheduled
for March 16, Dave Parry, SGI Senior Vice President and General Manager of
the Server and Platform Group, will discuss the importance of open standards
as a driving force to accelerate innovation. 

OSBC 2004 will explore the financial impact of open source software on
global business. It is the first forum to not only examine the role of open
source in shaping the future of embedded, server, and desktop markets, but
also to explore new opportunities that open source presents for both startup
and established technology vendors, and how to capitalize on them. Keynote
presentations, panel sessions and speakers from some of the world's leaders
in business, law, venture capital and technology will address the attending
venture capitalists, attorneys, and CEOs. 

"OSBC 2004 is the first event that gathers together leading vendors,
investors and enterprise customers to talk about how they can make money on
Open Source," said Matt Asay, founder of The Open Source Business
Conference. "SGI has been a pioneer in bringing Open Source into
mission-critical, enterprise markets to deliver-performance and
cost-effective solutions for their customers. We're excited to have them
participating as a sponsor and a featured speaker."

As a leader in the Open Source community, SGI is the only high-performance
computing vendor dedicated to open source software. SGI's award-winning SGI®
Altix® family of servers and superclusters is based on a 64-bit open-source
Linux operating environment that leverages the combined power of Intel®
Itanium® 2 processors with SGI® NUMAflex(tm) shared-memory architecture.
Since its introduction at LinuxWorld last year, SGI Altix has consistently
shattered scalability and performance records on high-performance computing
industry-standard benchmarks, scaling to hundreds of processors in a single
Linux system image and thousands more via clustering. 

Parry, who will address the OSBC on March 16, at 10:15 a.m., notes, "Linux
has not just grown into the commercial enterprise 32-bit marketplace,
negatively impacting Microsoft's Windows NT marketshare. Linux has also has
grown into the 64-bit high performance computing market, and is eating into
the marketshare held by proprietary UNIX systems such as IBM AIX, HP HP-UX,
and Sun Solaris. With rapid adoption for high performance computing
solutions, Linux is a driving force in dramatically accelerating innovation
in a variety of technical and creative markets including government and
defense, life sciences, manufacturing, research and development, energy, and
media. OSBC attendees will learn how the HPC marketplace is using SGI Altix
platforms to innovate, create, and understand their world better, faster,
and more cost effectively."

Silicon Graphics has been a long-time contributor to the Linux community.
Over the past five years, SGI has offered key graphics technologies to the
open source community, including Open Inventor(tm), an industry leading
visualization scene graph, an OpenGL® sample implementation, and the key
components for the OpenML® standard. In addition, SGI has provided many core
server and system technologies to the Linux community for high-performance
computing and storage, such as the highly valued XFS® journaled file system.
The entire SGI® InfiniteStorage product line for storage consolidation, data
lifecycle management, data sharing and protection is now available for SGI
Altix environments, allowing instant data access among heterogeneous
platforms, as well as the performance and scalability features of open
source XFS and SGI® InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS(tm) software.

About Open Source Business Conference
The Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), the premier event for open
source and business, is the leading independent forum for addressing the
business, legal and financial issues facing technology vendors and
organizations deploying open source software. OSBC 2004 will be held March
16-17, in San Francisco at the Westin St. Francis. View details and register
at www.osbc2004.com.

Silicon Graphics | The Source of Innovation and DiscoveryÔ 
SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc., is the world's leader in
high-performance computing, visualization and storage. SGI's vision is to
provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative
breakthroughs of the 21st century. Whether it's sharing images to aid in
brain surgery, finding oil more efficiently, studying global climate or
enabling the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, SGI is
dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for scientific,
engineering and creative users. With offices worldwide, the company is
headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., and can be found on the Web at
www.sgi.com.

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logo are registered trademarks and NUMAflex, Open Inventor, CXFS and The
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registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United
States and other countries. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus
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