Silicon Graphics Inc. once strode across Silicon Valley like the digital dinosaurs created for “Jurassic Park” on its state-of-the-art supercomputers.
The company, now called SGI, rode an earlier boom to become a tech icon, with 11,000 employees and a Hollywood sheen derived from the dazzling special effects it produced for “Terminator 2” and other hits of the 1990s.
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Intel Corporation and SGI today announced that the Procter & Gamble Company has recently doubled its deployment of Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2-processor-based SGI(R) Altix(R) systems used in the manufacturing and packaging design of some of its most popular consumer products. The products include Folgers* coffee, Charmin* bath tissue, Bounty* paper towels, and Pampers* diapers.
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S2io Inc., an emerging leader in high-speed server and storage I/O solutions, announced that Silicon Graphics (NYSE:SGI) will offer S2io’s Xframe(R) 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter on five SGI(R) product families. The compute products are designed to easily scale to meet the needs of end users who demand high performance in complex data environments. SGI already has customer demand for these servers and workstations with the new 10 Gigabit Ethernet option.
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI) today announced that as part of its commitment to address the demand for powerful collaborative visualization, Visual Area Networking (VAN) is now available with high performance support for Silicon Graphics(R) Onyx4(TM) UltimateVision(TM) systems using OpenGL Vizserver(TM) 3.3.
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Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) is threatening a shake-up of the storage industry by including fabric switches within its disk arrays, effectively bypassing a large segment of the market.
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