SGI begins high-end Linux push (News.com)

[Posted January 7, 2003 by ris]

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.