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RSS sgi in newsRoadrunner runs away with supercomputing prize
News Rounding out the top 10 is Sun Microsystem's Ranger at number four, Cray's Jaguar at number five, SGI's Encanto at number seven, and SGI's Altix at number 10. Roadrunner has topped the Top500 supercomputers released yesterday at the International... [19 Jun 2008]
Nasa supercomputer gets rocket power
News Working with Intel and supercomputing specialist SGI, the Advanced Supercomputing facility at Nasa's Ames research centre in California will be able to deal with increasingly complex modelling and simulation work. [09 May 2008]
F1 champions put their faith in technology
News McLaren-Mercedes: Aigo, SAP, SGI, Vodafone (title sponsor) It might not be as temperamental as a race-car's engine, but keeping the IT running properly can be just as important to the success of a Formula One racing team. [23 Mar 2007]
Ex-Hollywood high-flyer files for bankruptcy protection
News Silicon Graphics (SGI) announced on Monday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it seeks to reorganise and re-emerge from its financial woes. SGI, a former high-flying server and workstation maker for Hollywood and the graphics... [09 May 2006]
Dell to phase out Itanium-based servers
News HP is by far the biggest in the Itanium server market but Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, SGI and Unisys also sell their own high-end Itanium servers. Dell is phasing out Intel Itanium-based servers, a move by one of the chipmaker's closest allies that... [16 Sep 2005]
Former HP CEO dies at 64
News Belluzzo left HP for SGI back in 1998, over disagreements in the direction HP should take. Belluzzo went on to become SGI's chief executive. Since 2003, Platt had served as lead director at aerospace giant Boeing, which in recent years has... [12 Sep 2005]
IBM wins fastest supercomputer competition
News There's a new contender on the horizon, though, a NASA system called Columbia that SGI is building with 10,240 Intel Itanium processors. IBM has claimed first place in a supercomputer speed competition with an expanded version of its Blue Gene/L... [30 Sep 2004]
5 years ago... SGI to sell Cray supercomputer unit
News SGI managed to sell off Cray by March 2000 to a small supercomputer maker called Tera Computer. This route was taken after SGI tried and apparently failed to find a financial partner that would allow Cray to be spun off and make it on its own. [12 Aug 2004]
SCO threatens to pull SGI's Unix licence
News High-end computer maker Silicon Graphics Incorporated 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. [02 Oct 2003]
SCO downplays legal threat to Torvalds
News SCO says it has more than 6,000 Unix licensees, including companies and universities, and that its direct contracts with companies such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM or SGI require that sub-licensees protect the Unix code. [30 May 2003]
Glitch found in servers based on Intel Itanium 2
News NEC, SGI and Unisys all are shipping powerful multiprocessor servers using Itanium 2. NEC didn't respond to requests for comment but Unisys and SGI said the glitch doesn't affect their short- or long-term Itanium plans. [13 May 2003]
Sun goes back to its high-performance roots
News Sun Microsystems has started promoting an effort to return to its high-performance computing roots, as it aims at the weakened SGI and the ascendant IBM. Part of Sun's effort is aimed at stealing customers away from SGI, which has been ailing... [28 Apr 2003]
SGI updates midrange Unix server
News SGI has unveiled 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 customers who... [16 Apr 2003]
Companies urged to patch Sendmail
News Several companies, including Red Hat, IBM, SGI, Sun and Hewlett-Packard, released patches on Monday. A critical vulnerability in Sendmail, the internet's most popular mail-server application, had security experts and software companies moving... [04 Mar 2003]
Red Hat updates IBM support
News Multiple companies, including SGI and NEC, are working to improve Linux for mammoth servers with dozens of processors. Leading Linux seller Red Hat has released an updated version of its Advanced Server product that adds support for IBM's x440... [19 Feb 2003]
