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V. Rishi Kumar

HYDERABAD, June 16

SGI, better known as Silicon Graphics Inc, the $1.3-billion provider of high performance computing, visualisation and complex data management solutions, is bullish on the energy sector and sees growing opportunities in oil and natural gas exploration with the sector opening up, alongside applications in the manufacturing space.

The Managing Director of SGI, Dr Prasad V. Medury, and Mr Avinash Fotedar, Director SGI, told Business Line that the SGI business in the country was growing at the rate of over 20 per cent every year for the past three years.

"We have had success with some of new products and solutions we introduced lately," he said.

"We see that the Government and defence segments have many areas in which SGI Reality Centers find applicability. Hazard perception and mitigation, command and control systems, defence and civilian application simulators, war gaming are some examples of the use of SGI Reality Centre in defence applications," Mr Fotedar added.

These solutions include the SGI Origin 3000 and 300 Series, SGI Onyx 3000 and 300 Series, Silicon Graphics Fuel and Octane2, and the SGI Reality Canter and the SGI Altix 3000 series, which is based upon the Intel Itanium2 and Linux Operating system. With the oil sector opening up, Mr Fotedar said, "We see greater applications of our products. For instance in the oil and exploration segment, SGI Reality Centers create three-dimensional models of oil and gas actually below the earth's surface.

"It enables oil and gas exploration professionals to achieve far more accurate drilling and perhaps more importantly enhances the productivity of existing reservoirs. In both cases, this technology is helping exploration companies save millions of dollars and within the country, ONGC has two SGI Reality Centers."

Further, Silicon Graphics sees Linux as an important operating system of the future. "Already there are enough market indicators in that direction and we also see a place for differentiated high performance computing solutions in this space," he said. With this backdrop, SGI launched Altix super clusters, he added.

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