News.com looks at SGI's
new Altix 3000 series. "The Altix 3000 systems are essentially
an adaptation of SGI's existing Origin 3000 systems, which use SGI-designed
MIPS processors and Irix, its version of Unix. The Altix 3000 systems,
though, use Itanium processors and Linux, a move that lets SGI benefit from
others' research and development budgets and that weans SGI off its
reliance on its in-house technology." See also this
press release from SGI.
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