Objectivity Joins SGI Mobile Innovation Center; New Briefing Reviews Benchmark System That Ingests over 32 Terabytes Per Day.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2004 Objectivity Inc., the leader in high-performance database engines that manage complex data, real-time applications and very large volumes of data, today announced that it has been invited by Silicon Graphics, Inc. to join the SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. (R) Mobile Innovation Center. The SGI Mobile Innovation Center is an 18-wheel, state-of-the-art demonstration facility that brings cutting-edge SGI(R) technology and solutions for the most challenging problems right to the customer's location. As a strategic SGI partner, Objectivity has been invited to deliver a briefing as a part of the Mobile Innovation Center tour program at selected government and defense and sciences sites. The Objectivity briefing describes a recent joint benchmark performed with SGI that explored the performance boundaries of commercially available database, file system, and hardware technologies. The tested system demonstrated the throughput of a linearly scalable combination of Objectivity/DB(R), SGI(R) NUMAflex(TM) supercomputer architecture and SGI(R) InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS CXFS Clustered Extended File System (SGI) (TM), simultaneously ingesting, processing and querying data objects and the relationships between them at a rate of over 32 Terabytes per day. The first two stops for the Objectivity briefing will be at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. in Palo Alto Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , CA, on Thursday, March 11, 2004, and Sandia National Laboratories Sandia National Laboratories, which is managed and operated by the Sandia Corporation (a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation), is a major United States Department of Energy research and development national laboratory with two locations, one in Albuquerque, New in Livermore, CA, on March 17, 2004. To register, those interested can visit http://www.sgi.com/events/mic/rsvp.html. "The very successful benchmark system we built with SGI should be of great interest to the scientific and government audiences we will be reaching via the SGI Mobile Innovation Center," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Jay Jarrell president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Objectivity. "These customers build demanding mission-critical applications that require the kind of scalability and performance we demonstrated in our joint benchmark." About Objectivity, Inc. Objectivity, Inc. is the leading provider of high-performance, scalable object databases with unrivaled support for mixed-language development and distributed, mixed-hardware environments. Objectivity boosts developer productivity, shortens time to market, and provides the ideal platform for mission-critical applications requiring continuous performance and adaptability to future technologies. Objectivity, Inc. is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. , USA. For more information, contact Objectivity by e-mail at info@objectivity.com, on the World Wide Web at http://www.objectivity.com or by calling 408-992-7100. Note to editors: Objectivity/DB is a trademark of Objectivity, Inc. Silicon Graphics, SGI, the SGI logo, and Origin are registered trademarks, and Altix, NUMAflex, NUMAlink, and CFXS are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc., in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or other countries worldwide. All other company, organization, product or alliance names mentioned herein remain the property of their respective owners. |
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