well SGI are finished these days, they're a late 90s thing with crazy custom silicone. When the best mac was 40MHz SGi were running multinodal behaviour with 266MHz RISC CPUs and optimised Linux. Totally different hardware architecture.
However, your modern gaming rig these days just sh1ts from a great height on their stuff.
About 8 years ago SGi called it quits and now just sell stock hardware with SGi software. They built maya, for example.!
Oh no doubt... Linux is great. Definitely not a resource hog. I use Fedora currently... used to run Kubuntu. There's a few games I have that I wish would run on Linux... that way I can remove Windows from my machine already.
@illriginalized thing is though, SGi basically couldn't compete once the game hit GHz, they've been in and out of bankruptcy ever since. The competition caught up with their horribly expensive custom hardware and thrashed it at 1/100th of the price, so that's that really. Cray.
Yeah. everything is moving towards commodity solutions these days. They really should have shifted focus towards software and exited the hardware business earlier.. But I guess they didnt see it coming.
Though, in fairness, it appears that they made some really bad decisions that sped up their demise as well. Such as ditching MIPS/IRIX and exiting the graphics business (!).
idk, must be because it runs a linux platform, because this PC that im on now runs Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS with 256 MB ram, 1.8 GHz Processor, and a ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 GPU, and it runs beautifully!!! I guess linux is not that dependent on resources!
SGI is no just about Linux, is about High Performance, software development and computer science. Is true you can do much with a Linux low cost PC, put what about algorithms or management tools created for SGI. I think people need more information about what exactly do SGI, they are not a PC manufacture they are super and I mean supercomputing provider.
Google is your friend. That is exactly what SGI is today. Commodity Intel multi core processors running Linux. Their high speed memory interconnect allows WAY faster computing with thousands of cores than just a bunch of Linux box's connected with infiniband. Yes, they are still very relevant in Supercomputing.
I really miss the good old SGI.
eMGeeGFX 5 months ago
My PC is as powerfull as an oldskool SGI machine.
Now thats progress!
StephenSuttieHouse 1 year ago 3
@StephenSuttieHouse, it took 15+ years. I call that real slow progress. SGI is also ‘conveniently’ out of the way.
eMGeeGFX 5 months ago
My dad still works at SGI I remember when we got an N64 before anyone else.
metaloidx 1 year ago
How come these machines have such low performance specs compared to other PCs?...
illriginalized 2 years ago
@illriginalized
well SGI are finished these days, they're a late 90s thing with crazy custom silicone. When the best mac was 40MHz SGi were running multinodal behaviour with 266MHz RISC CPUs and optimised Linux. Totally different hardware architecture.
However, your modern gaming rig these days just sh1ts from a great height on their stuff.
About 8 years ago SGi called it quits and now just sell stock hardware with SGi software. They built maya, for example.!
bishopdante 2 years ago
Oh no doubt... Linux is great. Definitely not a resource hog. I use Fedora currently... used to run Kubuntu. There's a few games I have that I wish would run on Linux... that way I can remove Windows from my machine already.
illriginalized 2 years ago
@illriginalized thing is though, SGi basically couldn't compete once the game hit GHz, they've been in and out of bankruptcy ever since. The competition caught up with their horribly expensive custom hardware and thrashed it at 1/100th of the price, so that's that really. Cray.
bishopdante 2 years ago
Yeah. everything is moving towards commodity solutions these days. They really should have shifted focus towards software and exited the hardware business earlier.. But I guess they didnt see it coming.
They should have.
petestowne 2 years ago
Though, in fairness, it appears that they made some really bad decisions that sped up their demise as well. Such as ditching MIPS/IRIX and exiting the graphics business (!).
petestowne 2 years ago
idk, must be because it runs a linux platform, because this PC that im on now runs Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS with 256 MB ram, 1.8 GHz Processor, and a ATI Radeon Mobility 7500 GPU, and it runs beautifully!!! I guess linux is not that dependent on resources!
Computerfreaq15 2 years ago
Because SGI has been defunct / in-out of bankruptcy for about 10 years, that answer your question?
lookoutforchris 1 year ago
SGI is no just about Linux, is about High Performance, software development and computer science. Is true you can do much with a Linux low cost PC, put what about algorithms or management tools created for SGI. I think people need more information about what exactly do SGI, they are not a PC manufacture they are super and I mean supercomputing provider.
franciscob5 3 years ago
There is no reason to use Silicon Graphics equipment anymore, linux on generic hardware is doing much of what SGI used to do, at much lower prices.
whiteguysamurai 3 years ago
Google is your friend. That is exactly what SGI is today. Commodity Intel multi core processors running Linux. Their high speed memory interconnect allows WAY faster computing with thousands of cores than just a bunch of Linux box's connected with infiniband. Yes, they are still very relevant in Supercomputing.
FlatulentlyJubilant 3 years ago 7
true
klastiaan 3 years ago
its so nice to see something from sgi that isn't 15 or 20 years old
sybrfreq 3 years ago