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- Super-duper green computers
- If you think about sheer performance-per-watt potential, it's pretty hard to beat a supercomputer. So any company with gargantuan transaction processing needs might want to scout the latest Green500 list for insight. This list was brought to my attention by SGI, which has 11 entries in...
- Tags: SGI Altix, Silicon Graphics Inc., Computer, Altix ICE, UNIX, Databases, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- SGI to university: Chill out
- SGI to university: Chill outs/Tucso/Tucson/Typo there.Ice, Ice Baby"Vanilla Ice" reference aside, maybe SGI has mastered another form of cold, cryopreservation, since what seemed like a dead company is still around.-M
- Tags: Silicon Graphics Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-29
- SGI to university: Chill out
- Hot off the presses: The University of Arizona in Tucso has purchased a mammoth 1392-core SGI Altix ICE 8200 high-performance computing platform to support its research groups across campus. Apparently, the university was just as impressed with the technology's cooling design as it was with the boost it will get...
- Tags: SGI Altix, University, Silicon Graphics Inc., ICE System, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- Leading HPC Vendor Eases Adoption for Customers, With New Windows-Based Offerings
- For SGI, a leading High-Performance Computing HPC vendor, extending its server offerings to support the Windows operating system meant being able to satisfy a broader range of customers. SGI now offers Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 as an alternative to Linux, making it easier for customers who are familiar with...
- Tags: Silicon Graphics Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Case studies 2008-02-22
- NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer
- NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputerSo that's who's keeping SGI aliveGranted, I know that the Itanium 2 scales well, but so does the POWER6. In fact, if the POWER6 scales as well as it should, they would require half of the cores that the Itanium 2 would need....
- Tags: Processors, Operating systems, Intel Itanium, IBM POWER6, Intel Itanium 2, Silicon Graphics Inc., HPC Space, NASA, supercomputer, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-11-15
- NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer
- I had a chance to speak with NASA and SGI at the SC07 supercomputing convention in Reno this week where I saw one of the biggest super computers in the world. Pictured left is a 1024-core version of the Altix 4700 and NASA just bought one with twice as many...
- Tags: SGI Altix, Processor, NASA, Supercomputer, Intel Itanium, Intel Itanium 2, Silicon Graphics Inc., SPECint_rate2006, SPECfp_rate2006, UNIX, Processors, InfiniBand, Operating Systems, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking, George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- SGI Inï¬niteStorage 220: A Pain-Free Path to Storage Area Networks (SANs)
- The IT teams supporting enterprises, governments, educational institutions, and other large organizations currently place priority on initiatives for consolidation and centralization for data infrastructures. No one can dispute the potential benefits, especially in the case of storage, that can be gained when dealing with today's explosion of data. However, moving...
- Tags: SAN, Silicon Graphics Inc., Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-04-09
- SGI plugs in Windows for compute clusters
- SGI plugs in Windows for compute clustersWindows for compute clusters. Why??? [NT].Competition rules [nt].Since Donnie won't approve this, is it DOA?or the next protest site?Because you can only run benchmarks for so longAfter that you need applications.
- Tags: Operating systems, Silicon Graphics Inc., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-01-11
- SGI Altix: Enhanced Return on Investment for the Datacenter
- SGI offers customers a new choice for maximizing Return On Investment ROI with a highly scalable platform based on industry standards. SGI Altix servers and clusters eliminate bottlenecks, enable real-time access to complex data sets, and scale with customer needs. Altix provides a unique combination of an open environment, a...
- Tags: SGI Altix, Data Center, ROI, Silicon Graphics Inc., Roi/Tco, UNIX, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Tech lawsuits: Is it time for a "U.S. District Court of Technology" with its own bench?
- Somewhere in the back of my mind, the fact that I have seen multiple news headlines having to do with new or ongoing lawsuits in the tech industry was gnawing at me. So, I decided to search ZDNet on the words "infringement" and "lawsuit" to see what came up. Here,...
- Tags: General, Legal
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- SGI hits ATI with lawsuit
- Silicon Graphics Inc has emerged from bankruptcy protection and has slapped graphics chip vendor ATI with a patent infringement lawsuit.SGI's chairman and chief executive officer, Dennis McKenna made it clear back in June that the company had plans to use use intellectual property enforcement as a way to generate additional...
- Tags: ATI Technologies Inc., Silicon Graphics Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-25
- SGI sues ATI for patent infringement
- SGI sues ATI for patent infringementIncredible!Amazing - they revert to 60's design principles for I/O and patent it! And the patent office is clueless that this is based on accepted principles that - shucks - are now in the public domain - or should be! Unless this is just a...
- Tags: patent office, patent, Silicon Graphics Inc., ATI Technologies Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-24
- SGI set to exit bankruptcy protection
- SGI set to exit bankruptcy protectionThailand coup1. The Thai king doesn't support it.2. Elections were due in November.3. The opposition party couldn't win by votes.If you have assets in Thailand, I'd condemn this coup, it will collapse and you'll protect you're business.Good for them ...SGI has always been innovating in...
- Tags: Litigation, Silicon Graphics Inc., bankruptcy protection, bankruptcy
- Discussion threads 2006-09-19
- SGI's Unix variant fading into history
- SGI's Unix variant fading into historyOSX is not UNIXOSX is not UNIX. It is not "the most widely used Unix." It is not Unix. Period.It is, like Linux, a Unix-like system. To be Unix, it must be certified as Unix by the Open Group. ...
- Tags: Operating systems, Apple Inc., SGI Unix, OSX, Darwin, BSD Unix, Unix, Silicon Graphics Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-09-08
- Gelsinger: Moving on with Montecito
- Gelsinger: Moving on with MontecitoItanium on track to break the vertical modelCongrats to Gelsinger and team. The end of the proprietary, must buy everything in one place model will soon be over.The path towards horizonal and standard building blocks is unstoppable. IBM - you're a services company, Sun - you're...
- Tags: Silicon Graphics Inc., Itanium-2 BOTCHING, Montecito, Gelsinger, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-07-19
- Swimsuit design needs supercomputing
- These days, most competitive swimmers wear some type of body suit to reduce high skin-friction drag from water. And makers of swimwear are already busy working on new models for the Olympics 2008. According to Textile & Apparel, one of them, Speedo, is even using a supercomputer to refine its...
- Tags: CFD, Silicon Graphics Inc., Speedo Goes
- Blog posts 2006-07-09
- SGI sees end to Chapter 11
- SGI sees end to Chapter 11SGI went bankrupt because they aren't neededWhat does SGI have to offer, to justify their return from bankruptcy? Fast machines? A bunch of Unix boxes running SGI IRIX? I'm sorry, but that just doesn't impress people any more. An AMD 64...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Silicon Graphics Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-07-05
- Microsoft security chief looks beyond Vista
- Microsoft security chief looks beyond VistaThe M$ secuirty chief is just another Sea Story.Gee.. Maybe if you RTFS...you wouldn't make lame comments...[b]MS has a "security" chief? When did they hire him? A couple days ago? [/b]If you read the top part of the article, you would have noted he's replacing...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), FTC, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., security, Silicon Graphics Inc., chief look, Fathi
- Discussion threads 2006-06-13
- Aidsoid Viewer (zip)
- Aidsoid Viewer is a tool that allows you view and edit pictures. Useful program for view, convert pictures and swf files. Here are some key features of Aidsoid Viewer .bmp - Windows Bitmap JPG/JPEG/JPE - JPG files. GIF CompuServe. SWF - Shockwave Flash. WMF - Windows Metafile. EMF - Enhanced...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Metafile, Silicon Graphics Inc., Aidsoid Viewer, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2006-06-08
- SGI: I saw the hubris and the damage done
- SGI: I saw the hubris and the damage doneWhat aboutbuying Cray for $100 million, and then selling it to THEMSELVES plus others for $10 million?SGI was obviously a company of techno-nerds that had no interest or ability in business.SGI was innovation at its best - but it anchored itself to...
- Tags: Leadership, Silicon Graphics Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-05-09
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