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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy SGI by acveilleux on Friday August 12, 2016 @10:25AM (#12275884)
The supercomputer Cray/SGI business was the only surviving bit and basically DoD and other TLAs are the only buyers.

I suspect it's mostly the Cray networking topologies (T3D/T3E double-taurus with 2048+ cpus) that kept them relevant. The processors were just plain alphas and later Xeons I think.

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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy SGI by nickpsecurity on Friday August 12, 2016 @04:31PM (#12278583)
MIPS then Itanium then Xeons. A lot of companies rode the Itanic because it looked so high-class. One, good result is you can get an Itanium server on ebay for about $120 if it's a small SGI. I kind of smiled and winced when I noticed that trend.
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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy SGI by lallysingh on Friday August 12, 2016 @02:29PM (#12277744)
MIPS then Xeons.
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