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SGI brought us so much that we still use today. I use XFS as the default filesystem on all my machines (the AMI's I use in Amazon even use it). I hope HPE fin
by wise0wl 10y ago
SGI brought us so much that we still use today. I use XFS as the default filesystem on all my machines (the AMI's I use in Amazon even use it). I hope HPE finds a good home for the best of the best that still stuck it out at SGI all these years (through the downturn, the Rackable years, and after).
A company I worked at previously bought a bunch of Rackable systems JUST after the SGI acquisition, and we insisted that they include SGI badges with the systems because, in my words, the logo was just way cooler.
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- mmagin 10y agoHa. The lower-case "sgi" isn't the real SGI logo to some of us :)
- nickpsecurity 10y agoDidn't they also put in the NUMA stuff in Linux kernel? Also, cutting bottlenecks between CPU's and GPU's that happens today was a large part of how their early boxes achieved their performance. PC architecture just looked dumb after you saw how SGI boxes did it. Also, might consider them an early inventor of blade systems if you look at a SGI Origin with case open and a blade box. Lining up a bunch of modules in one chassis with shared power, data bus, pluggable hardware, and management system are both systems MO except SGI's had single-system image. That's if blades did come later, which I'm fuzzy on.