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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 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]
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]
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 slashes another 600 jobs
News The additional job cuts will reduce SGI's operating expenses to about $100m (£63.58m) per quarter, meaning that it can reach operating profitability with revenue of $235m to $240m, the company said. In July, when SGI reported a net loss of $36.6m...
[August 28, 2003, 10:10]
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 details recovery plan
News SGI announced on Friday it will lay off 12 percent of its work force, about 250 people, and named new executives as part of a plan to recover from its financial problems. The moves were announced a month after the arrival of SGI's new chief...
[March 6, 2006, 8:55]
SGI draws SCO's wrath
News High-end computer maker Silicon Graphics is in line to become the next target of Linux opponent SCO Group, with the controversial software seller threatening to revoke SGI's Unix licence. SGI revealed the expected move in a regulatory document...
[October 2, 2003, 9:25]
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]
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 stares into the abyss
News Silicon Graphics (SGI), once a leading light of the supercomputing world, has admitted that its financial situation is so grim that it could be forced into bankruptcy. In a regulatory filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), SGI...
[February 9, 2006, 16:35]
SGI plans Linux renaissance
News Silicon Graphics (SGI) will start showing off the Altix 4000 Monday, the second generation of the company's technical computing machines based on Itanium processors that run on Linux. The high-performance systems will accommodate as many as 512...
[November 14, 2005, 8:15]
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 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'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 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 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]
SGI releases mid-range Linux server
News The Altix 350 system expands to 16 processors, and uses the same SGI Advanced Linux that the Altix-3000 line uses, meaning that applications written for the high-end servers will run on the mid-range versions without modification, said Masters.
[January 12, 2004, 16:15]
SGI counts in Montecito
News SGI, which specialises in machines for high-performance technical-computing jobs such as aerodynamics simulations, plans to release its next-generation Altix model at the same time that Intel releases its new "Montecito" version of Itanium, said...
[December 23, 2004, 9:05]
SGI buys VRML tool maker Paragraph
News SGI will fold ParaGraph's tools into its existing line and will gain access to some of ParaGraph's biggest customers, including Disney Online and the Microsoft Network, said SGI officials. The ParaGraph technology and products will be managed by...
[May 15, 1997, 9:38]
