Silicon Graphics

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SGI O2 workstation Supercomputer SGI Onyx

Silicon Graphics, Incorporated (SGI) is a company known primarily for producing high-end computer hardware designed for computer graphics - mainly 3D graphics and video processing. He founded the company in 1982 with ten students Jim Clark, a Stanford University professor. Initially with his pioneering early 80s ideas turned to companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Digital, but they were not interested in buying a patent. Jim Clark left SGI in 1993 and founded Netscape with Mark Andreessen (co-creator of Mosaic).

The company was a member of the OpenGL Architecture Review Board (ARB), an organization dedicated to developing OpenGL graphics libraries. OpenGL was developed as a development, used in Silicon Graphics, IrisGL. Therefore, SGI also had rights to the name and logo "OpenGL".

Computers manufactured by SGI worked (under 2006) under the control of the company's IRIX (MIPS-based machines) and later (since 2001) used Linux (Altix systems were the largest supercomputers in 2006). on Linux and Intel Itanium 2 processors. On Linux and Intel-based systems, you can use IRIX software (with the help of the program emulator). Linux development on SGI MIPS systems. Graphics drivers for the latest SGI machines (Virtu) come from NVIDIA, once SGI was designing and producing drivers for their machines.

Due to the shrinking market for specialized graphics terminals, the company completed its production in 2006. This also meant the end of MIPS processors and their own graphics drivers. Recent models include Tezro and Fuel (IRIX / MIPS) and Prism (Itanium / Linux). Later (April 2008), Silicon Graphics returned briefly to this market by introducing Virtu.

In early 2009, Silicon Graphics announced a bankruptcy, after it had ditched its workstations through personal computers, the company could not find a place in the market. Most of the assets were sold to Rackable Systems, which currently owns the Silicon Graphics International brand. From the remains, Graphics Properties Holdings has been created to manage SGI's former patents.

Previous major products include Crimson, Indy, Indigo and O2 workstations and Onyx supercomputers.

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