Stories about: Silicon Graphics

  • +

    Intel pushes 50-core chip, mulls exascale computing 16/11/2011 07:36:53

    Intel is drumming up support for its latest 50-core Knights Corner and Xeon E5 server chips, which are key elements in the company's plans to scale performance while reducing power consumption moving toward an exascale supercomputer by 2018.
  • +

    SGI, Intel plan to speed up supercomputers 500 times by 2018 20/06/2011 22:09:35

    Silicon Graphics International hopes by 2018 to build supercomputers 500 times faster than the most powerful today, using specially designed accelerator chips made by Intel, SGI's chief technology officer said.
  • +

    Cloud computing: A sustaining or disruptive innovation? 17/03/2011 05:28:00

    If you've read this blog over the past couple of years, it should be no surprise that I am a huge advocate of the theories of Clayton Christensen, author of "The Innovator's Dilemma." Christensen and his book were brought to mind this week by the cover story in Forbes about his severe health problems, his experience with the U..S healthcare system, and his prescriptions for how to fix it.
  • +

    Supercomputing Grows in the Cloud 09/08/2010 20:11:00

    An economy that continues to stagnate could prove a boon to an increasing number of providers of on-demand supercomputing capacity.
  • +

    SGI changes tack, builds standard data center containers 27/05/2010 06:17:00

    SGI is making some big changes to its ICE Cube family of containerized data centers, adding new models that will be able to house standard server racks for the first time.
  • +

    The most over-hyped tech products ever 31/03/2010 13:43:00

    Rule number one of over-hype: just being talked about isn't enough. That's hype. The crux of excessive hype is disappointment, the gap between the pitch and one's reaction. Um, is that really it?
  • +

    Microsoft rivals to purchase 22 patents to defend Linux 09/09/2009 05:18:00

    A group of Linux proponents will purchase patents formerly held by Microsoft in an effort to defend distributors of the open-source OS against the ongoing threat of patent litigation from the software giant.
  • +

    Rackable Systems becomes SGI, closes deal 12/05/2009 04:20:00

    Rackable Systems has completed its acquisition of Silicon Graphics and will change the name of the combined company to SGI, Rackable announced Monday. It hopes the name change helps it expand its business overseas, where SGI is a better-known brand.
  • +

    Rackable buying SGI for $25 million 02/04/2009 06:04:00

    Rackable Systems said Wednesday it plans to buy the assets of bankrupt Silicon Graphics (SGI) for roughly US$25 million in cash and will also assume certain liabilities.
  • +

    NASA research finds way into IT, consumer products 18/11/2008 09:02:00

    Aware of a history of heart disease in his family, then-50-year-old Gary F. Thompson saw his doctor for a checkup before he ran a Los Angeles marathon in the mid-1990s.
  • +

    DreamWorks dumps AMD, teams with Intel on 3-D animation films 08/07/2008 22:19:49

    DreamWorks Animation SKG is pushing Advanced Micro Devices aside to team up with chipmaker rival Intel to make the big transition to 3-D animated films next year.
 
Job Search
Top jobs
Jobs in IT&T
Resources