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| | Byte Cellar: SGI Faces Bankruptcy |
 | | In recent years, the readily available, inexpensive, high power computer hardware from other vendors (Apple, standard PC makers, etc.) has encroached mightily into what was once niche, SGI-owned territory, forcing the company to expand in other directions such as storage and superclusters. |
| | (NASA's Columbia supercomputer, currently the most powerful computer in the world, is capable of 42.7 trillion operations per second and is built from SGI Altix sysems, driven by 10,240 Itanium 2 processors.) Sadly, it has been a downhill slide in a hostile market for SGI since the mid 90s. |
| | I have long admired SGI hardware, having my first exposure to it working at a defense contractor associated with NASA-Langley known as Vigyan back in 1993, where I played with an Iris and an Indigo 2. |
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