At 08:54 AM 10/30/2010, you wrote: >Across our institute, we probably had something on the order of 50 SGI >systems of varying size and capability. I think there may have been a >few IRIS boxes lurking in dusty corners when I retired. Early on, they >were the go-to system for scientific and technical visualization. Later, >they were at the forefront of 3D visualization; among other things, SGI >boxes powered the institute's 3-wall virtual-reality cave. It was a gas >to strap on the goggles and walk through my data; even better, to give a >guided tour of the data to visitors. > >In my own lab, in addition to various work-group sized servers we had >over the years, we also tried their 2-board Graphics system on an PC and >later their first SGI-branded WindowsNT box as they tried desperately to >stay relevant. The economics of commodity-based computing did them in. >(But, then, I could give a treatise on the decline and fall of >supercomputers, mini-supercomputers, and super-minicomputers, Our >institute tried them all.) > >Regards, >Kent
So did/does the Naval Research Lab. In fact, we still have one of the last Cray's ever made still up and running here. But yeah, SGI's, the old HP's DEC Vax's and Alpha's (my last VMS sysadmin job here at the Lab was to manage a 5 machine cluster of Alpha 8400's filled to the gills with CPU's and memory, along with the requisite disk farm). NRL really, really liked their big old supercomputers. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
