NASA has picked computer maker Silicon Graphics Inc. and chipmaker Intel to develop a major supercomputer based on Linux to simulate space exploration and conduct other research, SGI announced Tuesday ...

Computer maker evolves from its "Jurassic" era with a Linux-based machine. NASA gives it a thumbs-up. Photos: SGI's Columbia supercomputer Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

I had a chance to speak with NASA and SGI at the SC07 supercomputing convention in Reno this week where I saw one of the biggest super computers in the world. Pictured left is a 1024-core version of ...

After posting another quarterly loss on Tuesday, Silicon Graphics Inc. appointed a new chief executive to run the company. Dennis McKenna, former CEO of privately held SCP Global Technologies Inc. in ...

Silicon Graphics Inc. on Wednesday will begin shipping a 256-processor version of its Altix 3000 supercomputer, and the company is readying a 512-processor product that it expects to begin shipping by ...

Hello everybody. Well, come Tuesday I am expecting an SGI 320 to show up. Bought it off of a fellow for 90 bucks shipped- a bit cheaper then they seem to go for on fleabay anyway. This whole thing ...

SGI (SGI), the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that NASA’s Ames Research Center has selected an SGI(R) UV(TM) 2000 shared memory system to support more than a thousand active ...

Fully Operational 10,240-Processor Columbia System Rated at 51.87 Teraflops, Returning World-Class Supercomputing to U.S. Scientists PITTSBURGH, PA, (November 8, 2004)—Screaming past Japan’s venerable ...

Rackable, Fremont, Calif., said it has signed an agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of SGI for about $25 million, plus the assumption of certain liabilities related to the acquired ...

Storied Sunnyvale tech company Silicon Graphics, the onetime multibillion-dollar company that rose to fame in the 1990s by helping Hollywood create blockbusters like “Jurassic Park,” agreed to sell ...