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Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy SGI by gsmethells on Friday August 12, 2016 @12:10PM (#12276744)
Our local Wisconsin university, UW-EC, received an entire computer lab full of SGI workstations in the 90's when SGI was big. I even had a friend who worked at SGI in Chippewa Falls, WI. I recall lots of folks fleeing to Cray (same city) over the years. It's sad to see SGI falling apart like this, but hopefully HP is a good home.
Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy SGI by wavesplash on Friday August 12, 2016 @12:17PM (#12276801)
Silicon Graphics was bought by Rackable for pennies back in 2009, Rackable then changed its name to SGI. The SGI of old is long gone.
Re:Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy SGI by rootbear on Friday August 12, 2016 @12:50PM (#12277046)
Not entirely. The SGI rep who serves NASA Goddard is still the same guy, after who knows how long.

We have an SGI UV300 system, which has a single kernel image running on 96 cores with 6TB of RAM. Not many people build systems like that these days. The newest expansion of the Goddard supercomputer uses SGI servers. I wish them well as part of HPE.