Louisiana Hosts One of World's Largest Supercomputers with New 4.1-terabyte SGI Altix 4700 System

Massive System at Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) is One of Largest Shared-Memory Computers Available to Private Sector

LAFAYETTE, La. (September 18, 2006) — With a single computer acquisition from SGI (OTC: SGID), the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) has instantly become one of the world's leading technology resources for industry, government, and research institutions.

LITE recently installed a massive computing component to its already world-leading SGI-powered visualization capabilities with the purchase of a 160-processor SGI® Altix® 4700 supercomputer with 4.1 trillion bytes (or terabytes) of memory.