Re: Future of SGI?

Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler wrote:
> The SGI Columbia installation is composed of a cluster of 20 512-CPU Altix
> systems for a total of 10240 CPUs.

I was told that the original MIPS/Origin4000 plan was going to offer
37500 CPUs
single-image. I suppose it is a valid point that if MIPS/IRIX/Origin
development
had continued, this level of scalability would be out and in use by
now. The move
to Altix/etc. has introduced a delay, but they've been able to do the
switchover
pretty quickly all things considered, and it has offered SGi a chance
to redo
some of things which weren't done so well in IRIX. Many things in IRIX
were
first attempts, especially the video stuff. Just a shame that rather
than being
fixed/improved in IRIX, the better ways of doing these things will end
up in
SGI Linux.

Still, others continue to write new code. A friend of mine who did the
O2 'nomagic'
capture tool says he'll get back into working on a full O2 video
editing suite. Capture
hours and hours of video with no frame drops? No problem. Uncompressed
video
included. Nobody *needs* a 3GHz CPU to do video, which is not what MS
would
have you believe...

Ian.

.

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