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Well, Most Hollywood effects were all done on SGI systems before the slow migration to Linux. Renderman, Maya, were all SGI first-party programs. Also SGI ma
by vrinsd 3y ago
Well,
Most Hollywood effects were all done on SGI systems before the slow migration to Linux. Renderman, Maya, were all SGI first-party programs.
Also SGI made huge advances in NUMA and machines with dozens of CPUs/processors before most other companies ventured into this space.
But not business critical like IBM CICS or Java.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMAlink https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMAlink
2. https://www.cs.ucr.edu/~bhuyan/CS213/2004/numalink.pdf https://www.cs.ucr.edu/~bhuyan/CS213/2004/numalink.pdf
3. https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/fa12/cse260-b/Lectures/Lec17.pdf https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/classes/fa12/cse260-b/Lectures/Lec17...
- sllabres 3y agoThe large Origin servers and the nice indigo workstations at trade fairs with their cool real time visualizations comes into my mind. Also applications like Softimage, the 4Dwm desktop ... Later the large Altix NUMA systems with core counts in unprecedented sizes (and problems booting due to lock contention ;) And of course their donation of the XFS filesystem to the linux world!