[geeks] SGI & linux

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 01:47:45PM +0100, Rob Fielding wrote:
> hardware is probably going to remain IRIX. All old hardware (Octane down) 
> will remain IRIX. Any new hardware (starting headless, like the Altix) will 
> probably get Linux support from the people who'd write the IRIX hardware 
> support. 

The Altix is *already* Linux-based:

http://www.sgi.com/servers/altix/

"SGI Altix 3000 servers and superclusters are the most scalable Linux. 
 systems on the planet, running a  single Linux OS image with 64 Intel. 
 Itanium. 2 processors and up to 4TB of memory." 

Bill

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bill bradford
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