[Beowulf] HP Enterprise to buy SGI

John Hearns hearnsj at googlemail.com
Fri Aug 12 03:31:23 PDT 2016


Here is the Registers take on this:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/11/hpe_buys_sgi/

As an aside:
SGI languished, and its own Intel workstations built in response were
shunned by the industry.

I remember getting one or two of these when I worked in the Special Effects
industry in Soho.
THey made the best technical choices, but it ended up with a weird
non-standard PC style machine,
where as I remember the PCI slots were low voltage, so you had to buy SGI
modem cards (etc)
as off the shelf ones would not work.






On 12 August 2016 at 02:43, Joe Landman <landman at scalableinformatics.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 08/11/2016 07:22 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote:
>
>> So SGI is getting bought (yet again), this time by HP Enterprise.
>>
>> http://investors.sgi.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=984160
>>
>>
> Go off to class for a few hours and stuff happens ...
>
> For their in memory analytics machines.  Go figure.
>
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