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The supercomputer Cray/SGI business was the only surviving bit and basically DoD and other TLAs are the only buyers. I suspect it's mostly the Cray networking
by acveilleux 10y ago
The supercomputer Cray/SGI business was the only surviving bit and basically DoD and other TLAs are the only buyers.
I suspect it's mostly the Cray networking topologies (T3D/T3E double-taurus with 2048+ cpus) that kept them relevant. The processors were just plain alphas and later Xeons I think.
- lallysingh 10y agoMIPS then Xeons.
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- nickpsecurity 10y agoMIPS then Itanium then Xeons. A lot of companies rode the Itanic because it looked so high-class. One, good result is you can get an Itanium server on ebay for about $120 if it's a small SGI. I kind of smiled and winced when I noticed that trend.