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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 Has Powerful Linux System In Pipeline
News SGI, which sells a 64-processor Altix 3000 computer based on the open-source operating system, will release a 128-processor version in spring 2004, the company said on Tuesday. Results of customer tests of the more-powerful Altix 3000 will be...
[August 7, 2003, 11:40]
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 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]
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's Midrange Unix Server Gets An Update
News SGI announced on Tuesday its Origin 350 Unix server, a descendant of the two-year-old Origin 300 that has more new processors, additional memory capacity and faster input-output capability. SGI is aiming the system at broadcast and military...
[April 16, 2003, 10:47]
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 Hopes NASA's Linux Spend Will Boost Results
News SGI's future depends on Altix, said Charles Wolf and Justin Udelhofen, analysts for Needham, in an October report. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has long been a customer of SGI's high-end computers using its Irix operating...
[October 21, 2003, 12:05]
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 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 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 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 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]
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 Takes On Linux Evangelist 'Maddog'
News One of the industry's oldest advocates of the Linux operating system has taken a position with high-end computer maker SGI. At SGI, Jon "maddog" Hall will continue his company-neutral role as executive director of Linux International, said Paul...
[October 4, 2002, 16:01]
SGI To Unveil New Supercomputer
News A new supercomputer from SGI packs far more computing power per square inch than competing machines -- a breakthrough the company hopes will help it flourish in what it sees as a renaissance in supercomputing.
[November 11, 2002, 15:36]
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 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 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]
