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SGI still exists? Somehow they'd been filed away in my head in the "really cool tech companies that disappeared" like DEC and Hewlett Packard (I am aware there
by SwellJoe 13y ago
SGI still exists? Somehow they'd been filed away in my head in the "really cool tech companies that disappeared" like DEC and Hewlett Packard (I am aware there is a company called "HP", but it exhibits no evidence of being what was once known as Hewlett Packard). Maybe the fact that Google campus is former SGI campus made me assume all of SGI was gone.
- DiabloD3 13y agoGo read the Wikipedia article on SGI. You're actually correct, the SGI of old is long dead. Some other company bought them (Rackable Systems) just for the name and are selling products that are not anywhere near as cool as the old SGI products, but are still considered super computers and big storage.
- rdtsc 13y agoYou are right. I do miss SGI. They had really cool workstations. Expensive as hell. We had to lease them instead of buying them. Besides doing actual work, remember playing and compiling a bunch of OpenGL demos on them. Even found the Jurassic Park file browser, by accident, and only years later connected the two when watching the movie the 2nd or 3rd time. I remember the "onslaught" of Windows NT and Windows 2000 workstations with larger, beefier graphics cards, more memory and faster processor. I could tell it was the end for SGI. But I will always remember them fondly.
- bashcoder 13y agoI also enjoyed their Indigo workstations, which included a 3D stereo goggle viewport. In 1998 I spent 6 months working on a 64-cpu Origin 2000 supercomputer, which had some serious power for long-running Computational Fluid Dynamics jobs.
- wmf 13y agoSGI no longer does graphics, but UV still has their massive ccNUMA technology in it.
- somethingnew 13y agoIf you want to see something awesome HP has done "recently" check out this talk on memristors. Other than that I don't know... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGhvKyjgLY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGhvKyjgLY
- deelowe 13y agoI'm pretty sure memristors fell out of favor not long after being announced. I haven't heard anything about the technology lately.
- gaius 13y agoThe old HP still exists, they go by the name Agilent.
- reportingsjr 13y agoSoon to be Keysight, because test and measurement got spun off.. again.
- beagle3 13y agoSGI died; Rackable is using the name. Young people here might not remember, but the death of SGI has a story very similar to HP and Nokia -- an ex-microsoftie is hired to head the company, decides to abort the previously successful (but not successful enough) core product (Irix, Meego, DYNAMO) and switch to being a Microsoft serf. SGI died. HP's relevant division died. The story of Nokia is still being rewritten -- but it seems the spirit had already died (and reincarnated in Jolla), and the corpse is being reanimated by Microsoft.