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SGI announces new Open IT Platform

[Posted April 19, 2005 by cook]

SGI has announced its new Prism systems, which are aimed at video processing applications. "By integrating industry standards-based, 64-bit Intel(R) Itanium(R) 2 processors, the 64-bit Linux(R) scalability found in SGI Altix high-performance server products, and scalable ATI(R) graphics processors (GPUs), SGI offers a system to solve the most demanding content creation and management at a dramatic new price point."

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Posted Apr 29, 2005 15:01 UTC (Fri) by leandro (guest, #1460) [Link]

What's industry standard about Intel Itanium? It's not a standard like Sun SPARC, it's not open like IBM POWER, it does not even use standards such as OpenFirmware.

I think SGI has painted itself into a corner. Should they have went POWER, they'd now be in a far more comfortable situation.