News about SGI as it relates to Linux

 SGI Buys 'Core Assets' Of Linux Networx, Feb 18, 2008

SGI, which came out of bankruptcy in October 2006, says it has increased orders by more than 30% in each of the last two quarters.

Silicon Graphics exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Tuesday with a new board of directors and new funding to try to restore its faltering high-end computer business.

SGI has been moving its product line to Intel's Itanium processors and the Linux operating system in recent years. But it does mark the end of another chapter as the computing industry whittles down the list of hardware and software foundations in widespread use.

SGI Shatters Linux Scalability Records Yet Again With 1,024 Processors Running Under Single Copy of Linux

Financially strapped Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), is targeting SAP customers planning to migrate off mainframe platforms with Linux-based servers.

Server and workstation vendor Silicon Graphics Inc has warned that it may have to seek protection under the bankruptcy laws if it has a significant shortfall on the latest restructuring plan or fails to find someone to buy the company or make a significant investment in it.

Silicon Graphics will start showing off the Altix 4000 Monday, the second generation of the company's technical computing machines based on the Linux operating system and Itanium processors.

Silicon Graphics (SGI) today claimed that it could bring Linux-based supercomputing to the masses with the launch of its cheapest ever scalable rack-mounted servers and storage systems.

Silicon Graphics India (SGI) has announced the availability of the world's first Linux OS based visual computer product line, the Silicon Graphics Prism family of visualization systems.

Silicon Graphics is set to re-affirm its commitment to Linux with the announcement of Open/SpeedShop that is expected later this week

Silicon Graphics Inc. announced that it will ship a new Intel Itanium-based Linux workstation that the company says is the most powerful of its kind in the world.

The new SGI Prism should ship to customers on November 8, according to Shawn Underwood, director of marketing for SGI, based in Mountain View, Calif. Underwood said that the $30,000 visual computing system will offer unprecedented speed and graphics ability.

Silicon Graphics Inc. plans to expand its Linux computer line into the midrange area on Monday, when it will unveil an Altix model with as many as 16 Itanium 2 processors.

The maker of high-end computers and storage systems introduced its Linux server line a year ago with the release of the 64-processor Altix 3000. The new 16-processor Altix 350, which can be assembled from four-processor modules, could appeal to customers with more modest demands and budgets.

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