See also: Silicon

Silicon Graphics, Inc. ( SGI ), is an american company which builds work stations ( workstations ) dedicated to the fields of the Infographie, 3D and treatment Vidéo.

In addition to its machines known for their design avant-gardist and coloured, SGI is also at the origin of a Operating system Unix owner, named Irix. Silicon Graphics is also at the origin of the processors of the Nintendo 64.

SGI announced on May 8th, 2006 its setting in voluntary bankruptcy under the terms of chapter 11 of the American law on the bankruptcies. The nonAmerican subsidiary companies of SGI are not concerned with this decision. The objective is to reduce the few 250 million dollars of debts of the company.

Following this bankruptcy, the old buildings of the company in Silicon Valley should be repurchased by Google (which occupies them already…).

Since this " dégraissement" , SGI adopts a strategy centered on the implementation of solutions of calculation optimized thanks to their historical know-how in this field. Offer SGI passed from the MIPS/système processors of exploitation IRIX to processors Intel (Itanium2 for the IA64 and Xeon for the x86) /système of exploitation Linux (Suse, Redhat,…).

Range of Products SGI

Current products SGI

Range calculation (certified RoHS)

• SGI Altix 4700 (frame blade, NUMAlink interconnection, replace Altix 3700)
• SGI Altix 450 (frame blade, NUMAlink interconnection, replace Altix 350)
• SGI Altix XE240 (bi-processor frame 2U, being able to embark until 32Go of memory, vocation to be main node in a cluster of calculation)
• SGI Altix XE210 (bi-processor frame 1U, being able to embark until 32Go of memory, vocation to be node of calculation in a cluster)
• SGI Altix XE310 (packaging specific allowing to embark 2 nodes bi-processors in only one frame 1U)
• SGI ICE 8200 (solution cluster which drew the attention at the time of Supercomputing of June 2007 in Germany by its character innovating)

+ software optimized for the environments of calculation

Range storage

• SGI InfiniteStorage 120 (JBOD)
• SGI InfiniteStorage 220 (JBOD, SAN)
• SGI InfiniteStorage 350 (JBOD, SAN)

Products SGI still present on the market

• Fuel workstation
• Tezro workstation
• Octane2 workstation
• Origin 350 mid-arranges server
• Origin 3000 MIPS-based high-end server
• Altix 3000 Itanium-based high-end server
• Onyx4 visualization system
• Linux visualization system

Last products SGI

• IRIS series (Motorola 680x0 based workstations and terminals)
• 4D series workstations
• Indigo workstation
• Indy workstation
• Indigo2 workstation
• Octane workstation
• Crimson (deskside server)
• Challenge S (desktop server)
• Challenge M (desktop server)
• Challenge DM (deskside server)
• Challenge L (deskside server)
• Challenge XL (bigger version off Challenge L)
• Onyx (deskside and larger workstations)
• Onyx2 (deskside and larger workstations)
• Onyx 3000 (Origin 3000 with graphics hardware)
• Origin 200 mid-arranges server
• Origin 2000 high-end server

External bonds

• SGI official site
• SGI official site (in French)
• SGI Technical Advice and Information by Ian Mapleson
• Pictures off SGI systems At www.schrotthal.de
• French-speaking SunWizard.NET Site dedicated to the amateurs of work stations and waiters Unix

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