On August 17, 2016 11:55:16 PM CDT, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 11:01:43PM -0500, Chris Elmquist wrote:
>>
>> The SGI shared memory systems, the most current of which is called
>> "UV", is a NUMALink interconnected design. They have a number of
>> ASICs that implement the
On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 11:01:43PM -0500, Chris Elmquist wrote:
>
> The SGI shared memory systems, the most current of which is called
> "UV", is a NUMALink interconnected design. They have a number of
> ASICs that implement the interconnect and protocol and bridge to the
> Intel processors in
On August 17, 2016 10:49:46 PM CDT, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 02:04:10AM -0400, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us
>wrote:
>> On 2016-08-16 01:32, Mark J. Blair wrote:
>> >But seriously, I didn't know that any pieces of SGI were still
>around
>> >to acquire.
>>
>> NUMALink, that's p
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 02:04:10AM -0400, alexmcwhir...@triadic.us wrote:
> On 2016-08-16 01:32, Mark J. Blair wrote:
> >But seriously, I didn't know that any pieces of SGI were still around
> >to acquire.
>
> NUMALink, that's pretty much it in a nutshell
I thought that tech was with CRAY (CRAYli
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chris
> That I did know. I rode that horse down the mountain during the Rackable
> take over and I left in 2010. Most everything relating to OS, BIOS,
> networking
> and system management software is done here in Eagan, MN and
On August 16, 2016 12:32:32 AM CDT, "Mark J. Blair" wrote:
>
>> On Aug 15, 2016, at 19:54, Chris Elmquist wrote:
>> On August 15, 2016 3:08:10 PM CDT, Mark Linimon
> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:49:29PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote:
I still don't understand what his motivation is.
>>>
On 2016-08-16 01:32, Mark J. Blair wrote:
But seriously, I didn't know that any pieces of SGI were still around
to acquire.
NUMALink, that's pretty much it in a nutshell
> On Aug 15, 2016, at 19:54, Chris Elmquist wrote:
> On August 15, 2016 3:08:10 PM CDT, Mark Linimon wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 12:49:29PM -0700, Fred Cisin wrote:
>>> I still don't understand what his motivation is.
>>
>> It could just be mental illness :-(
>>
>
> I thought it was jus
> I don't know about now, but SGI used to have a lot of Govt contracts
> and a lot of oil companies as customers. HP buying that also means
> they now have the ears of those customers when their solutions are old
> and they need to migrate to new equipment.
>
> I predict a lot of late model Irix e
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 07:40:32AM -0400, Christian Liendo wrote:
> I don't know about now, but SGI used to have a lot of Govt contracts
> and a lot of oil companies as customers.
IIRC Unisys eventually turned into a government contractor.
The thing is, if you build an organization big enough to
I don't know about now, but SGI used to have a lot of Govt contracts
and a lot of oil companies as customers. HP buying that also means
they now have the ears of those customers when their solutions are old
and they need to migrate to new equipment.
I predict a lot of late model Irix equipment com
On Friday (08/12/2016 at 09:33AM -0700), Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 08/12/2016 06:17 AM, Todd Killingsworth wrote:
>
> > SGI was already destroyed decades ago. With more vision, they could
> > have transitioned the business into becoming an Nvidia instead of a
> > faceless rack server company.
>
>
On 08/12/2016 11:33 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Whatever, the original company and mindset is long gone. No use crying
over spilt milk.
Company, mindset, and the industry in which it operated, to be honest. I
don't think I could get particularly excited about putting a SGI-branded
graphics card i
On 08/12/2016 06:17 AM, Todd Killingsworth wrote:
> SGI was already destroyed decades ago. With more vision, they could
> have transitioned the business into becoming an Nvidia instead of a
> faceless rack server company.
But that's really what SGI is/was today--the former Rackable Systems who
i
> On Aug 12, 2016, at 11:40 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
>
> ...
> I remember when HP was innovative, and made great test equipment.
They still do, but that part hasn't been called HP for a long time. I figured
when HP split into a test equipment company and an ink company, the outcome was
obvious.
If HP and Microsoft merged, would it put an end to computers?
On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Paul Koning wrote:
No, but it might put an end to the resulting company.
Would that stop it from pushing Windoze10 "upgrade"?
Note that HP didn't acquire DEC, or Palm; both had been absorbed by
other companie
> On Aug 12, 2016, at 11:15 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
>
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2016, Mazzini Alessandro wrote:
>> It was not enough to have mishandled vms, and killed palm. Now they want to
>> destroy also what's left of SGI ?
>> Better I don't say what I'm really thinking...
>
> "All tyranny needs to g
>>Now they want to destroy also what's left of SGI ?
SGI was already destroyed decades ago. With more vision, they could have
transitioned the business into becoming an Nvidia instead of a faceless
rack server company.
Especially with the world looking into VR, the original SGI could
legitimate
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