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[quote]Hewlett Packard Enterprise has bought venerable computing firm SGI – formerly Silicon Graphics – for $275m.
Over the past few years, SGI has concentrated on the big-iron end of the server market and high-performance computing. It's this technology that HPE wants to bolster its hardware lineup.
"At HPE, we are focused on empowering data-driven organizations," said Antonio Neri, general manager of HPE's enterprise group, on Thursday.[/quote]
[quote]SGI, which made millions in the 1990s with its pioneering workstations, has been in decline for well over a decade. Its MIPS-based workstations were the darlings of the entertainment industry in particular, starring in a generation of films such as Jurassic Park – which featured SGI systems behind and in front of the camera – as well as Terminator 2, Men in Black, Forrest Gump, and so on.
SGI sold gear into other industries, too, and to the military; it came up with the 3D graphics API OpenGL, which is still used just about everywhere today; it ported UNIX System V to MIPS, calling the resulting operating system IRIX; and it was responsible for the GPU in the Nintendo 64.
After getting caught out by the rise of low-cost x86 clusters, SGI languished, and its own Intel workstations built in response were shunned by the industry. It got caught out moving to Chipzilla's ill-fated Itanium processors before shifting to Xeon parts, and went through three bankruptcies before being bought by Rackable Systems in 2009 for $42.5m.[/quote]
[quote]"The computing power that our solutions deliver can interpret this data to give customers quicker and more actionable insights. Together, HPE and SGI will offer one of the most comprehensive suites of solutions in the industry, which can be brought to market more effectively through HPE's global reach."
Or at least, that's what both sides are hoping. HPE paid $7.75 per SGI share to acquire the company, a 30 per cent premium on its stock price at the close of the market.[/quote]
[quote]"SGI, the victim of a cash cow business selling to military and the biggest companies in the world, never made a transition to PC graphics. It could have been Nvidia. Instead, it’s now a footnote," El Reg columnist and VRML co-inventor Mark Pesce blogged earlier today.
[B]"This is a sad day, because without SGI, much of modern VR simply wouldn’t exist. They paid for a lot of pioneering research work — yes, in order to sell more systems, but nonetheless they paid for the infrastructure that people still use today – such as OpenGL – to create virtual worlds."[/B][/quote]
[url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/11/hpe_buys_sgi/]**SOURCE**[/url]
[url=http://www.businessinsider.com/hewlett-packard-enterprise-buys-sgi-for-275-million-2016-8]**A second source, cuz The Register can sometimes be a shit source**[/url]
I know a few people who made money on this deal. Back in 2010 me and a few others bought shares in the company when you could literally buy 500 shares for less than $25. I sold my stock in 2013 because I needed money but the others have made more bank from today's announcement. The two top speculations for the deal is either HP wanted SGI's share of the market or being long standing rivals going all the way back to the 80's HP wanted to finally kill the brand.
George Wood will be furious
I'd love to have an old SGI workstation, but I don't have the space
The monitor, mouse and keyboard being placed where there's no legroom in that picture annoys me far more than it should.
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;50871286]The monitor, mouse and keyboard being placed where there's no legroom in that picture annoys me far more than it should.[/QUOTE]
Imagine sitting there hunched over trying to work
my back gets pains just from thinking about it.
[QUOTE=FlamingBlizza;50870918]I'd love to have an old SGI workstation, but I don't have the space[/QUOTE]
O2's are about the size of a ShuttleX machine. Just good luck shipping one and not shattering the skins. AmigaOS has an Indy which is about the size of a pizza box.
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Doesn't HP tend to run things into the ground? How are they still around?
I didn't know SGI was still around. All I really know them for is the N64.
[QUOTE=Durrsly;50872672]I didn't know SGI was still around. All I really know them for is the N64.[/QUOTE]
They were used in the big 3D animation studios for awhile but pretty much everybody switched to x86 by the mid-2000's.
I wonder what they have been up to.
[QUOTE=Demache;50872907]They were used in the big 3D animation studios for awhile but pretty much everybody switched to x86 by the mid-2000's.
I wonder what they have been up to.[/QUOTE]
they went defunct, got bought. the name doesn't really mean anything -- it's like atari today. their machines were also used for CAD and all that junk that you'd use a modern or workstation video-card for today.
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[QUOTE=Durrsly;50872672]I didn't know SGI was still around. All I really know them for is the N64.[/QUOTE]
SGI was a very big deal in the 90's. their old-school "lease $10K computer" model eventually was their downfall as they focused on the sales side (rather than their technology) when their tech became equal to a 200$ video card you could buy at Best Buy. They had the talent, and they could have become the nvidia of today
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