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Would you buy a personal supercomputer (for $8K)?

Silicon Graphics International today unveiled a "personal supercomputer," called the Octane III, with a price tag that starts at $7.995. For some reason - and maybe it's just me - I just can't seem to figure out who the target customer is for this machine. I think...

Tags: Supercomputer, High-performance, Silicon Graphics Inc., Leadership, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-21

VideoMach 5.5.3 (Windows)

This is the fastest and easiest way to convert images to video. VideoMach is ideal for converting images from professional high-speed imagers, 3D renderers (e.g. Terragen), stop-motion animation, time-lapse photography, and screen capture applications to AVI and MPEG. Standard version supports video, audio and all major image formats, while Professional...

Tags: Bayer AG, Screen Capture, AVI, MPEG, Microsoft Windows, Silicon Graphics Inc., TIFF, Gromada, VideoMach, Digital Video, Corporate Communications, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Marketing, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-07-17

Frugal Friday: Conficker, SGI, TomTom, Tableau Software

Frugal Friday: Conficker, SGI, TomTom, Tableau SoftwareMS has serious problems.......MS Windows is an insecure platform period.Anyone who is staying with this money pit isgoing to be faced with more exploits and uneducated decisions because they are afraidof 'IT Change' in IT things change and the oldguard is scare of Open_Source...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Frugal Friday, Tableau Software, Conficker, Microsoft Corp., TomTom, MS HAS, Linux Distro, Silicon Graphics Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-04

Frugal Friday: Conficker, SGI, TomTom, Tableau Software

Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I start the new 1-Hour format of Frugal Friday with a half hour of news discussion (Conficker.C, Rackable purchase of Silicon Graphics, Microsoft vs. TomTom settlement) and a half hour of discussion with our special guest, Elissa Fink of Tableau Software,...

Tags: CIO, TomTom, Silicon Graphics Inc., Tableau Software, Podcasts, Litigation, Databases, Internet, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-04

Rackable acquires Silicon Graphics for $25 million

Rackable acquires Silicon Graphics for $25 millionEveryone operating in the black or RED will be found. Maybe just maybethis will make companies that have operated with sound financials stronger as the weak are able to be purchsed for cheap. Consolidation is not great for consumers but as a...

Tags: Silicon Graphics Inc., Rackable

Discussion threads 2009-04-01

Rackable acquires Silicon Graphics for $25 million

Leading server and data center provider Rackable Systems, Inc. announced today that it will acquire Silicon Graphics, Inc. SGI for approximately $25 million in cash. The combined businesses will offer hardware and software technology within large-scale x86 cluster computing, HPC, Internet, Cloud Computing, large-scale data storage environments...

Tags: Rackable Systems, Silicon Graphics Inc., Litigation, Balance Sheets, Data Centers, Personal Finance, Government, Business Operations, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-04-01

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 In�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

Real-Time Capabilities for Linux SGI REACT Real-Time for Linux

This white paper describes the real-time capabilities provided by SGI REACT Real-Time for Linux software. REACT enables SGI Linux-based system platforms to deliver Hard Real-Time HRT capabilities including an interrupt response time of 30us or less. A brief review of current real-time Linux capabilities, a description of typical real-time applications,...

Tags: Silicon Graphics Inc., Capability, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software

White papers 2007-02-01

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