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LinuxWorld: SGI shifts from NT to Linux
News We're putting more energy into fewer focuses," said SGI Chairman and CEO Rick Belluzzo during a press conference this afternoon. SGI (formerly Silicon Graphics) got into the NT business just 18 months ago, but the initial manufacturing process was...
[August 11, 1999, 9:49]
SGI unwraps the Wintels
News SGI's own video, audio, graphics and networking are hardwired to the motherboard, which makes upgrades impossible unless the motherboard is replaced. Although the systems themselves were the centrepiece of the announcement, Belluzzo and other SGI...
[January 12, 1999, 16:45]
SGI expands high-end graphics onto Linux
News The systems are important to SGI: the Itanium-based products have attracted new customers and shown increasing revenue. Software is a sticking point for SGI because there's little available for high-end graphics systems running Linux, Babbitt said.
[October 12, 2004, 15:15]
SGI recalls systems with faulty CPU
News SGI's systems that shipped between March and July with NEC's R10000 microprocessors will be recalled, totalling about 10,000 units. SGI can be contacted by telephone on 01734-306222. The chips, which cause systems to shut down unexpectedly, were...
[September 27, 1996, 14:58]
SGI releases Itanium friendly servers
News Computer manufacturer SGI launches a new range of high-performance servers Tuesday that it believes will make for a smooth transition towards the Itanium processor. Although the new Origin 3000 and Onyx 3000 servers are based on Mips...
[July 26, 2000, 14:03]
SGI Altix: Enhanced Return on Investment for the Datacenter
White Papers 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...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
SGI to shutter Irix this year
News After nearly two decades of leading the world in innovation and versatility, the MIPS-Irix products will end their general availability on 29 December, 2006," SGI said on its Web site. SGI will still sell some systems "through special arrangement...
[September 11, 2006, 12:00]
SGI emerges from bankruptcy protection
News In addition, three-quarters of SGI's products now on the market were introduced in the last nine months, and the company is trying to tackle a larger market by expanding from high-end systems with Intel Itanium processors to lower-end models using...
[September 20, 2006, 9:25]
MS, SGI to give Windows a new look
News Another one, based on SGI's existing Scene Graph technology, will follow in 1999. SGI said prices would be comparable to high-end PCs and workstations, though it would not release more details. The companies plan to roll out three APIs over the...
[December 18, 1997, 10:47]
SGI supercomputer breaks speed record twice
News During the unveiling of the Columbia supercomputer, SGI touted a speed of 42.7 trillion calculations per second, or 42.7 teraflops. That means that 2,048 of the 10,240 Itanium processors in the supercomputer weren't being used -- and the unused...
[October 27, 2004, 14:25]
SGI, Intel court Linux developers with Itanium
News Computer hardware manufacturer SGI stepped up its support for open source computing Wednesday, releasing its SGI Pro64 enhanced compilers for the Intel Itanium processor to the open source community. SGI is pushing the use of the open source...
[May 24, 2000, 12:07]
SGI claims supercomputing victory
News But using Intel processors has given the company's equipment a boost, said Walt Brooks, division chief of NASA's Advanced Supercomputing Center -- the Itanium machines are six times faster than the SGI models they replace.
[October 27, 2004, 9:05]
SGI draws SCO's wrath
Talkback And SGI will file a lawsuit, similar to IBM's and/or RedHat's. Yeah, fine. Give SCO another legal battle to fight, in what I anticipate will be the first three of many similar ones. Too bad SCO will be a bankrupt shell of what they once were (give...
[October 6, 2003, 18:52]
US Report: SGI to boost performance of workstations and cut prices
News In addition, SGI will update its Octane line with the 250MHz processors and its E-Series graphics subsystem, previously available only on Octane MXE workstations. SGI will also offer the new 250MHz MIPS R10000 Octane/SE and Octane/SSE in place of...
[May 21, 1998, 9:32]
SGI's Belluzzo expected to go to MSN
News The departure is a blow for SGI, a long-struggling computer maker that recruited Mr Belluzzo 19 months ago to lead a turnaround effort. The Mountain View, Calif.company said it was surprised by his decision to take what it described as a "non-CEO...
[August 24, 1999, 17:06]
SGI ups Linux support with e-business solution
News Hardware manufacturer SGI furthered its commitment to the Linux operating system Thursday, announcing the availability of IBM's WebSphere Application Server on the SGI 1450 Linux-based server at the European Linux Conference, London.
[June 2, 2000, 12:19]
SGI and Microsoft team up on computing clusters
News Supercomputing specialist SGI has become Microsoft's latest partner, signing up to support a version of Windows that can farm out computing jobs to a cluster of lower-end servers. Previously, SGI had focused chiefly on the open-source Linux...
[January 11, 2007, 8:41]
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 stares into the abyss
Talkback how about NVIDIA or ATI buying out SGI? basically instead of an SGI computer, you'd end up with a graphics card/GPU that was an SGI machine on a PCI-Express Card.cheaper + faster :)
[February 11, 2006, 8:53]
SGI begins high-end Linux push
News SGI, a maker of high-end computers for technical tasks, has begun selling a new server running Linux on as many as 64 Itanium 2 processors, the company plans to announce Tuesday. The Altix 3000 systems are essentially an adaptation of SGI's...
[January 7, 2003, 8:24]
