Welcome to the blog of Can Sar, a Stanford CS major. This blog is made up of my thoughts on Computer Science and the computer industry, as well as ever exciting tales from my life.
"SGI Altix 3000 servers and superclusters are the most scalable Linux® systems on the planet, running a single Linux OS image with 64 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and up to 8TB of memory. The SGI Altix 3000 family takes Linux to new altitudes of scalability and performance."
SGI, one of my favorite companies, released a new supercomputer, running Linux. Although I am a fan of IRIX (unparallelled scalability), and do not want it to disappear, I am now very glad that SGI is offering such big iron running Linux. The nice thing with Linux from the view point of a researcher, is that it is very easy to make changes to the operating system. Since operating system research is one of my main interests (especially for the next years), this is very important to me. Now I only need the money to buy this sweet machine.
One of the buildings across from the Shoreline movie theater used to be a big SGI center.
Now it's the computer history museum.
Sad, I agree, but more than a bit fitting. :P
Posted by Albert on July 9, 2003 02:55 PMI used IRIX once when I worked at UCI (Cal Irvine). I didn't do any systems or multiprocessing, though, so all I really know about is their desktop environment (which was just another Motif). It seemed like there were lots of things it did that I didn't know about.