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Army Getting BUFFed with SGI System

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SGI, a Mountain View company also known as Silicon Graphics that specializes in supercomputers to visualize scientific data, is working with the U.S. military. The research is part of the U.S. military's Brute Force Fusion, or BUFF program to study ways to improve analysis on the battlefield. Using SGI's technology, BUFF can receive 170,000 intelligence reports an hour adding up to 3 terabytes of data a day. The program is using the SGI systems to study how to quickly bring that vast amount of information into one usable source of information....

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