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SGI To Shutter Irix This Year
News Silicon Graphics will phase out its Irix operating system and the MIPS chip-based computers the Unix variant runs on at the end of the year, 18 years after the once-vaunted computing company introduced the technology.
[September 11, 2006, 12:00]
SGI Warns Of Web Server Vulnerability
News Silicon Graphics (SGI) machines running the Apache Web server on SGI's IRIX operating system are vulnerable to attack by hackers, who may be able to gain administrator-level access, the company has warned.
[March 20, 2002, 13:53]
SGI Hopes NASA's Linux Spend Will Boost Results
News It's full speed ahead with our Linux and Irix products. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has long been a customer of SGI's high-end computers using its Irix operating system and MIPS processors.
[October 21, 2003, 12:05]
SGI Expands High-end Graphics Onto Linux
News Until now, the graphics abilities were only available on the company's older line using its own MIPS processors and Irix operating system. The older products still has some advantages -- the chips run cooler and Irix has features Linux still lacks...
[October 12, 2004, 15:15]
SGI Has Powerful Linux System In Pipeline
News Most of its systems use Irix, the company's version of Unix, in combination with MIPS processors. SGI's MIPS-Irix machines are available with 512 processors today, with some customers using a 1,024-processor model.
[August 7, 2003, 11:40]
SGI Draws SCO's Wrath
News We have received a letter from SCO Group alleging that, as a result of our activities related to the Linux operating system, we are in breach of the fully paid licence under which we distribute our Irix operating system," the SGI filing said.
[October 2, 2003, 9:25]
SGI, HP, Oracle Embrace Linux
News Silicon Graphics had planned on providing its proprietary version of Unix, known as Irix, on its growing Intel line. To the extent that Irix has features that are still lacking in Linux, the company is expected to work to add them to Linux.
[May 14, 1999, 15:42]
LinuxWorld: SGI Shifts From NT To Linux
News With the help of Veritas Software, SGI will work to add key features of its Irix operating system to the Linux platform. Currently, Irix runs on the MIPS platform. Once SGI switches entirely to Intel's IA/64 platform, that will be the end of Irix.
[August 11, 1999, 9:49]
Silicon Graphics To Announce Next-gen Linux Server
News In the third quarter of 2004, "80 percent of server revenue was Altix, and 20 percent was traditional MIPS-Irix," he said, and the second quarter marked the first time Altix outsold the earlier Origin line.
[October 27, 2004, 9:20]
SGI Slashes Another 600 Jobs
News SGI hopes to grow by selling its new Onyx4 and Tezro visualisation systems based on the company's MIPS processors and Irix operating system, its Altix 3000 line based on Intel Itanium processors and the Linux operating system, and its storage...
[August 28, 2003, 10:10]
Linux Supercomputer To Simulate Space For NASA
News SGI historically built computers using its MIPS processor and Irix version of the Unix operating system, but it's been making a gradual transition to Itanium and Linux. Although it continues to supply MIPS-Irix systems to existing customers, most...
[July 28, 2004, 9:05]
Linux Leader Wants Quick Move To New Kernel
News SGI developed XFS for Irix, its version of the Unix operating system, and said in 1999 it would contribute XFS to the Linux community. Historically, it was true that SGI has focused on Irix as the primary platform for XFS, but I wouldn't be...
[December 8, 2003, 9:10]
BottomFeeder
Downloads BottomFeeder runs on Linux x86, (also FreeBSD), PowerPC Linux, Sparc Linux, Windows (98/ME/NT/2000/XP/CE 4), Mac OS8/9, Mac OS X (PPC), AIX, SGI Irix, HP-UX, and Solaris (SPARC and x86). BottomFeeder is a news aggregator client (RSS and Atom...
[July 14, 2007, 10:31]
U.S. Navy Relies On SGI And Platform LSF To Execute Complex Weather Prediction Models
White Papers FNMOC relies on high performance SGI Origin 3000 Series supercomputers running SGI's Trusted IRIX secure operating system, along with efficient and reliable job scheduling and workload management provided by Platform LSF software.
[November 19, 2004, 23:00]
McNealy 'thrilled' Sun's Unix Licence Is Safe
Talkback Irix and Next are probably safe too.because people have stopped using thos OSes as well.
[August 2, 2003, 0:39]
US Report: SGI Deals With Intel; Outlines Strategy
News Silicon Graphics will also port its 64-bit IRIX operating system to Intel's IA64 platform, code-named Merced. At a press conference in New York, Silicon Graphics' CEO, Rick Belluzzo, outlined the company's "strategic business plan", which focuses...
[April 15, 1998, 7:00]
Unix Gets Flash
News Flash Player for various flavours of Unix, including Linux, Solaris and Irix, will be available for free download from Macromedia's website from 1 September. Unix users and web content developers are finally to get their hands on Macromedia's ever...
[August 25, 1999, 10:42]
Itanium Workstation On The Way From SGI
News SGI has embraced Itanium and Linux as an alternative to its earlier models with its own MIPS processors and Irix operating system. Shortly after rival HP withdrew from the market, Silicon Graphics has begun selling a new workstation with Intel's...
[April 26, 2005, 9:50]
SGI Begins High-end Linux Push
News The Altix 3000 systems are essentially an adaptation of SGI's existing Origin 3000 systems, which use SGI-designed MIPS processors and Irix, its version of Unix. SGI, a maker of high-end computers for technical tasks, has begun selling a new server...
[January 7, 2003, 8:24]
HP To Deliver Unix Improvements
News HP-UX, along with Sun's Solaris and IBM's AIX, is one of the three major server versions of Unix to survive the consolidation that has claimed HP's Tru64 Unix, Silicon Graphics' Irix, Sequent's Dynix/ptx and Data General's DG/UX.
[December 4, 2006, 8:47]
