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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]
Country Energy Bets Business on Open Source
White Papers This resulted in inheriting three times the typical amount of legacy systems including Tru64 Unix and IRIX which powered central business processes. Country Energy was formed as a result of the merger of three energy companies - Great Southern...
[April 18, 2007, 1:00]
PostgreSQL
Downloads It runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, UNIX (AIX, BSD, HP-UX, SGI IRIX, Mac OS X, Solaris, SunOS, Tru64), BeOS, and Windows. PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source relational database system.
[September 9, 2009, 16:12]
Sharity
Downloads Sharity implements Resource Browsing similar to the Windows Network Neighborhood (Netbios Workgroups and Active Directory), NTLM, NTLMv2 and Kerberos authentication, Microsoft's Distributed File System (DFS), manipulation of Access Control...
[April 6, 2009, 20:22]
Real-Time Capabilities for Linux SGI REACT Real-Time for Linux
White Papers A brief review of current real-time Linux capabilities, a description of typical real-time applications, and a comparison of SGI real-time capabilities for Linux versus IRIX are also included. This white paper describes the real-time capabilities...
[October 1, 2008, 1:01]
SANbox 9000 Directs an Ensemble Cast of Postproduction Systems
White Papers DFT deployed QLogic SANbox 9000 Fibre Channel switch which manages a 40TB SAN, which includes 14 Apple PowerMacs running OS X, six PCs running both Linux and Microsoft Windows, and three SGI Irix-based workstations; two StorNext FX metadata...
[August 4, 2008, 19:08]
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]
txt2pdf
Downloads txt2pdf to convert old txt (also IBM codepage 437), spool, text, textual report to nice pdf (form, invoice, report, sale sheet) on Windows, Solaris, Linux HP-UX, AIX, Mac OS X, tru64, openvms, sco, irix, bsd, .
[October 27, 2009, 17:47]
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]
