SGI: Still Alive And Kicking
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| Changing times. IRIX and MIPS, the company's proprietary Unix and
| semiconductors, respectively, fell out of favor as the industry shifted to
| x86 and Linux.
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http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3718911
Quote for the day:
"The major reason for this is: to combat [Netscape] we have to position the
browser as “going away” and do deeper integration on Windows. The stronger way
to communicate this is to have a “new release” of Windows and make a big deal
out of it. We will thus position Memphis as “Windows 98″. IE integration will
be the most compelling feature of Memphis."
--Paul Maritz, vice-president Microsoft
Related:
North German supercomputers changing from IBM to SGI/Intel
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| Following a long tendering process, the North German Alliance for the
| Advancement of High-Performance Computing (HLRN) has decided to change over
| from IBM to SGI.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/100913
Born-Again SGI Spreads Its Wings
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| Another key aspect of their strategy in this market is the company's
| Industrial Strength Linux Environment (ISLE) initiative, aimed at creating a
| software environment that meets the expectations of high performance business
| computing customers.
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http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1889130.html
SGI Launches Blade-Style Altix Linux Supers
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| The new Altix Integrated Compute Environment is another step in the
| evolution of SGI, which has created a respected Altix platform using
| NUMA clustering of Itanium processors to create very large and very
| powerful global memory clusters that run Linux.
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http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb062607-story02.html
Linux in more than 90% of top supercomputers
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| Other operating systems, such as AIX (4.8%), Solaris (0.4%) and Mac OS X
| (0.4%) make the list, but Linux is alone at the top, where it is used in 459
| systems or 91.8% of the top supercomputer systems.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/15/linux-in-more-than-90-of-top-supercomputers/
http://tinyurl.com/2rponk
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