It'd be nice if in the future
OpenBSD
, or
NetBSD
, there'd be some kind of
IRIX
binary support. Maybe through a
MIPS/IRIX
equivalent of
‘WINE’
for *BSD?
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What?! Of course it'd be a good feature! There's some truly amazing software out there for
IRIX
, very recent and commercial software too (still released since the 2006 EOL all the way to ~2007-2008; like the
Autodesk
software, to name something... though not that I'd ever see that work under any *BSD).
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Pixie
as in the
RenderMan
implementation?
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No sorry, I was just wondering. I remember having tried it in the past (although on a different platform then). I'm interested, but if you're busy there's no real hurry.
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In that case I'll wait 'til ajerimez ever gets ahold of one tricked out with an IR graphics pipe! (He's done a great job with several videos so far, I must say). I've tried to get a hold of a
G-brick
myself, with a certain amount of effort, but it was not worth it (people didn't get back at me and I hated to ‘beg’ for it) and so I eventually gave up on it. So I won't be likely ever making any videos of one, unless I managed to attend a future gathering (if there will be one). I wouldn't mind filming that, some day.
Speaking of which, sybrfreq also made some nice videos! I only wish he had a better camera though. Nonetheless, my compliments for his efforts! But next time, perhaps don't mix in music. I'd love to just hear the system sounds, the nut that I am!
Speaking of which, sybrfreq also made some nice videos! I only wish he had a better camera though. Nonetheless, my compliments for his efforts! But next time, perhaps don't mix in music. I'd love to just hear the system sounds, the nut that I am!
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Sure, you could do that! (Perhaps send nekonoko a private message, if you're uncertain). I'm interested either way, tape archive distribution or just a gzipped tarball, all fine. As long as I can try the build or compile it myself (with your hacks, optimizations and configurations in place).
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The first download requires authentication, probably a permissions issue; either way, download won't go. Speaking of games, with
D
OOM
for IRIX and even VMS, who needs anything else?!
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Maybe it's time for a community game development project? (And then only releasing it for non—x86/-64 platforms).
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tomo wrote:
But I have question also - since I'v never used any other than genuine renderer witch is addedet with modeling sw, how I can feed this thing with datas? It will be *nice* if it can read maya v5.0 scenes but I don't think so.
So what is the options - thanks...
So what is the options - thanks...
With Maya there's Pixar 's more than excellent MtoR ( Maya to RenderMan ) plug-in at your disposal. It's capable of not only writing out RIBs, but also doing nice GUI “shader”/material assignments and so on. There are some alternatives too, like a plain RIB exporter (for instance) and I remember there was a MEL-based RI exporter too. Houdini is even better, it comes with a lot of stunning RI tools out-of-the-box (like the “RMan ROP”).
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I have it, several versions in fact (I believe that a fairly well-known
Houdini
user should still have it mirrored; maybe we could mirror it on here too?) It was — and still is — one of my favourite RIspec-compliant renderers. Too bad that it in the end didn't work out for Larry Gritz et al...
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I'm going to give up on this idea.
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I haven't connected anything to the serial ports, but I did connect a keyboard (and a mouse); as it worked before, I figured it should too now. I also powered up with two PSUs installed (something which I couldn't do before, but for the sake of testing I did). So I'll just go ahead and try out connecting a serial console cable, see if that improves the situation. (I also reseated some modules and parts).
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Yes, I am, but also a technical background (graphic design done, graduated, and still busy with software engineering at university). I have a wide array of interests and hopefully a wide curriculum to provide with that too.
As for my preference and passion for MIPS/IRIX, well, is there anything with the same nowadays? Even the so-called “Linux advantage” that was promised to IFFFS customers doesn't even come close to what IRIX used to and still provides.
As for my preference and passion for MIPS/IRIX, well, is there anything with the same nowadays? Even the so-called “Linux advantage” that was promised to IFFFS customers doesn't even come close to what IRIX used to and still provides.
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I wonder if they'll make it multi-platform this time, perhaps providing support for some of their own POWER/PPC hardware? (Preferably the workstations, even though most seem at their EOL by now).
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I didn't know.
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The Keeper wrote:
A lot of those places are too xenophobic to even allow 外国人 inside, so unless you can speak Japanese pretty well, you're probably SOL anyway. しょうがない、ね？
Interesting, I also read something like this somewhere else. So basically this is quite a well-known occurrence in Japan, that people (read: tourists and such) just have to ‘deal with,’ but yet I've never heard much of an outcry about it in the media here. No international boycotts against Japan like against South Africa (for example). I also read once that demographically speaking, they have less than 3% “non-Japanese,” in terms of ethnic minorities, but most political parties seem to be discontent with that and have pledged that they want to reduce that over time.
Which speaking of, does anyone know why Japan barely allows refugees in? I mean, Japan is often considered to be part of the “West,” it being in the G7 and so on, but they seem to be pretty reluctant to participate in things like these. I don't know an incredible lot about Japan, so if anyone could enlighten me I'd be very grateful.
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RS/6000
and
pSeries
(or
“System p,”
as they seem to be called nowadays) systems, even the more recent POWER4, POWER5 and above systems, tend to take forever to boot up (with all the diagnostics and so on), but once they're booted they're all good and well and hopefully don't require being rebooted.
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PymbleSoftware wrote:
Racial purity is almost as important as the cast system in Japan.
Rhetorically speaking, isn't that racism? South Africa was internationally boycotted, so was Zimbabwe, and they merely enforced segregation. Yet there's no international outcry about what goes on in Japan, which I find that rather curious. I wonder how that is and how this has come to be?
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Read the real history of Japan. Like how the English and the USA dragged Japan into the second world war by cutting off oil supplies from Indonesia and elsewhere to Japans conquest of China. Do you really think the Tojo woke up one day and said "fuck it i'm bored let's go to pearl harbor" ...completely unprovoked...??
The relatively little I know about Japan and its history is that they industrialized, at first, by ‘adapting’ many things of the Dutch.
I remember this was discussed during history classes, for which was some attention at the time because of a Japanese delegation that came to the Netherlands. A friend of mine from Rotterdam told me how many of the WWII naval vessels from Japan were built in accordance to Dutch standards, the hulls and so on; they often were even constructed with manufacturing equipment from the Netherlands, from the Rotterdam shipyards specifically.
It's a bit strange though, no Japanese are discriminated against in the Netherlands — which would actually be against the law — and they're treated in a hospitable manner. But, if I were to go to Japan and a place ‘prohibited’ for me as a non-Japanese, I'd just have to have peace with that? It seems a bit like a double standard to me. Particularly that there's absolutely no outcry about it, whatsoever.
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Any people on here registered on there too? (My web space is
here
). Since I don't own any VAX hardware, it was a nice opportunity to get into VAX machine code. All the development tools (MACRO32/64, C/C++, F77, etc.) with licenses are installed, the cluster runs off version 7.3.
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What ones do you currently have? But, you don't need to add any of your own systems to the cluster to participate. (Actually, I wouldn't even know how that could be done, or whether it'd be very practical). Or is it just the practice you want before you join?
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Pontus wrote:
Off the top of my head I have four or five vaxstations, three microvax 3X00 (where X is 4,5,6 I think), a VAX-11/750. A handful of alphastations and an ES45. A bit more than I can handle at the moment
Very nice! I only have one system, a surprisingly snappy AlphaServer 1000 (4/266) , but I'm very happy with it nonetheless. I hope to get a hold of something more powerful in the future, like the rx2600 or rx2620 , like some (lucky) people on the forum own.
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I know that I don't need to add my own machines to Deathrow, I would join to get a reference system and some help I hope
But the machines could maybe be added to the cluster using the HECnet bridge.
But the machines could maybe be added to the cluster using the HECnet bridge.
I assume you mean DECnet? I'm familiar with it, but I've never tried coupling a cluster on longer distances, only in local networks, is what I meant. Also, I think you'd have to run 7.3 or 8.x with ODS/2 (without hard links), for file system backward compatibility.
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SAQ wrote:
DECnet Plus is TCP/IP based, so no problem there. HECnet is different - it's a hobbyist DECnet Phase IV network, see
http://www.update.uu.se/~bqt/hecnet.html
. No word yet if the mascot is Phil from Dilbert.
VAXclusters/VMSclusters can work very nicely over long distances.
VAXclusters/VMSclusters can work very nicely over long distances.
I know what you mean now, I forgot; the similarity in names must've confused me. I know they can work nicely, it has been one of VMS' selling points afterall, I was just not sure how it could be done with hobbyist licensed nodes.
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ritchan wrote:
I just figured this out while taking another Intellistation apart - IBM says you can only put 4 HDDs in the POWER 275, but in this photo you can clearly see that there's a filler panel at the bottom. Well guess what, there's actually another connector down there. Take out the black filler thing in the front and put in a real SCSI backplane, and voila you can have 8 SCSI hard drives in that thing. Haven't tried it, never found a need for 8 small noisy SCSI drives yet.
I know it is possible, it's just a bit expensive (more of those expensive, zany, custom trays/brackets). I've wasted enough money on my system already, in all the spares I've been ordering as of late. The system itself was a steal, very cheap, but then it had to break down on me. With IBM refusing to even help me a tiny bit. Whatever offerings they gave me were wrong, riddled with spelling errors (truly incredible) and totally not to the point. Even if I had the money, I'd not want to rely on their shoddy ‘technical support’ (or whatever would have to pass for it). SGI , even since the takeover, is vastly superior in this regard. I saw you wrote that IRIX is ‘dead’ (or something like that) on your blog/site, but SGI treats IRIX users a whole lot better!
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[..] I suppose if you wanna buy parts directly from IBM (quite expensive really) [..]
No kidding, for example, they charge € 856,62 (excl. VAT) for a replacement “CD/W HDWR” drive for example. (Not that I need one, it was incorrectly quoted to me; IBM doesn't even have its part numbers right, or refuses to look up part numbers/parts from a catalog).
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I know that, but I haven't really tried any of the clustering yet. I mean, I am — or was — still busy trying to set something up, but my
AlphaServer 1000
seems to have gone belly up!! Prior to that, I was experimenting with setting up a cluster with and some additional virtual nodes, running VMS through AXP emulation (via
Personal Alpha
), but it was a bit troublesome — or not ideal, rather — with shared TCP/IP and so on. (Which isn't really genuine like that, or doesn't feel very ‘real’... to me at least).
I'm not sure what the hell happened with my system, it ran so well and now it won't show/give a graphics output nor show anything on the LCD display. Prior to that I was also having problems during startup, hanging during boot when it's initiating the ethernet adapter (at the point it shows “link UP”). Frustrating, the second anticipated system of mine to have bitten the dust it seems!
Anyway, as far as my original question goes: Is anyone part of this particular cluster or interested in joining also?
I'm not sure what the hell happened with my system, it ran so well and now it won't show/give a graphics output nor show anything on the LCD display. Prior to that I was also having problems during startup, hanging during boot when it's initiating the ethernet adapter (at the point it shows “link UP”). Frustrating, the second anticipated system of mine to have bitten the dust it seems!
Anyway, as far as my original question goes: Is anyone part of this particular cluster or interested in joining also?
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My AXP system seems to have broken down recently... I have no idea what happened, but it's really annoying and happened totally out of the blue. I'll just have to emulate for now and use it via remote sessions, like on “Deathrow.” It's too bad that most AXP emulators only support a limited amount of RAM, the ones I've tried at least.
I'm going to stop buying second, or rather multiple/ n -th hand, stuff for a while. I'll just wait for a cheap'ish HP Integrity system to appear on the auction sites.
I'm going to stop buying second, or rather multiple/ n -th hand, stuff for a while. I'll just wait for a cheap'ish HP Integrity system to appear on the auction sites.
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It works again, the ol' serial cable ‘fixed’ it. Real awkward though, because I have and already had it set to “graphics” in the SRM...
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fu wrote:
eM, is the layout of your workspace still similar to the photos of your 1st post?
More or less, yes. In the meanwhile I also added a DDS-4 drive in an external SCSI enclosure, for all the necessary back-up'ing and archiving.
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how's the noise coming out of the tez? can you work for more than 1h? could you do a quick+dirty vid w/ the mic being 1m away from it?
It's okay actually, not worse than an Indigo2 ; especially if you have modern 10K and 15K SCSI disks in it. I had a rather noisy 73 GB Seagate disk in it, which I replaced with one 146 GB Maxtor and another 300 GB Fujitsu disk (one of those modern ones). Works great, very fast and they produce a lot less nois too! The noisiest thing here is my FC SAN, although I did manage to silence it to a very bearable degree.
As for the video, I'll do that. I'll try to do that one of these days.
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all the ones i've seen so far were in a separate room or inside a rack.
I don't have that luxury over here, although I don't at all ‘mind’ the sight of it!
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Just read this in the newspapers:
Any opinions on this news?
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Japanese government blocks a ban on child pornography
The Japanese government has blocked legal efforts to clamp down on child pornography, with the country becoming the world's "kiddie porn superpower," according to a pressure group.
The ruling Democratic Party of Japan has refused to support legislation that would outlaw the possession of child pornography on the grounds that it would infringe individuals' freedom of expression – although there has been a stepped-up police campaign against people that sell sexual images of children.
Twenty people were arrested this week for posting child pornography on a mobile phone web site that was set up by a 17-year-old high school student, while Japan was shocked earlier this year at the arrest of a mother who took indecent images of her infant son and sold them via the internet.
[...]
Read more here .
The Japanese government has blocked legal efforts to clamp down on child pornography, with the country becoming the world's "kiddie porn superpower," according to a pressure group.
The ruling Democratic Party of Japan has refused to support legislation that would outlaw the possession of child pornography on the grounds that it would infringe individuals' freedom of expression – although there has been a stepped-up police campaign against people that sell sexual images of children.
Twenty people were arrested this week for posting child pornography on a mobile phone web site that was set up by a 17-year-old high school student, while Japan was shocked earlier this year at the arrest of a mother who took indecent images of her infant son and sold them via the internet.
[...]
Read more here .
Any opinions on this news?
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It's interesting that there's no huge international outcry over this. I'll certainly be avoiding Japanese products, I hope everyone else who is against child pornography will do the same.
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Luckily in several industries having a good and solid portfolio will get you places, which I'd have to say is particularly meritocratic (especially for the naturally interested and autodidact individuals).
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I have an
Indigo² R4000
(with either
[GR3-]
Elan
or
[GU1-]
Extreme
graphics) for you, but I'm not sure what shipping might amount to.
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It appears to be trying to mount a bunch of NFS shares too, obviously of other IFFFS suites/systems.
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I have an U10 for sale, with a defective NVRAM IC. I'm not sure what shipping would amount to either.
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I have a SS5 — with a single 170 MHz
TurboSPARC
(32-bit “SPARC Lite,” according to psrinfo, ldd and the assemblers/compilers), with 224 MB RAM, 2× 36 GB SCSI (SCA) disks and for the rest roughly the same specifications — which I love for practically the same reasons! Great machines indeed, particularly the form factor. I currently run Solaris 9 off mine, with a bunch of OpenCSW and other F/OSS. I use the machine mostly as a terminal, develop small programs, testing 32-bit SPARC code and several other tasks. I've also used the system as a web-server for a while, which worked nicely too.
I actually have a spare SS5 power supply. Interested? Feel free to make me an offer.
bigD wrote:
I have SS20 and a non-working SS5 (power supply problem).
I actually have a spare SS5 power supply. Interested? Feel free to make me an offer.
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Why don't you do a disk dump (via
dd
) or just make one or more gzip/bzip2'ed tape archive files of the directories that you need? From there you can transfer it via NFS, CIFS/Samba, FTP and so on.
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How about
psrinfo
, for the CPU? In CDE (if available, of course) there's also the “About this workstation” information, via the right mouse-button menu on the desktop.
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SGI top executives to speak at eighth annual SGI User Group conference
Key customer presentations, SGI Open House, ICE Cube™ and NASA tours will be featured
FREMONT, Calif., Apr 26, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — SGI (SGI 7.69, -0.28, -3.51%), a global leader in HPC and data center solutions, today announced that it will sponsor and participate in the 8th Annual SGI User Group (SGIUG) Conference to be held in Fremont, California, May 10-12, 2010. Top SGI executives, including Mark J. Barrenechea, SGI CEO, and Dr. Eng Lim Goh, SGI CTO, will be present at the conference. This year's event will feature tutorials, technical presentations and workshops. The SGIUG Conference is open to all SGI customers and partners.
“The SGIUG Conference is a unique event that brings together industry experts to provide valuable information about high-end modeling, simulation and data mining, and to share best practices, tips, techniques and ideas on high performance computing technologies with SGIUG members,” said Chuck Niggley, SGIUG president. “We are pleased that SGI works closely with the user group to help ensure its success.”
Conference highlights will include a technology presentation by Dr. Goh, as well as customer presentations by the Institute of Cancer Research and NASA Ames Research Center. A tour of the NASA Ames Research Center, home to the Pleiades Supercomputer, the largest SGI® Altix® ICE cluster — currently No. 6 on the TOP500 List, is also included. SGI will host an open house and reception at its corporate headquarters and conduct tours of its ICE Cube modular data center. Early bird registration is available until April 30.
“The SGIUG is an important organization that facilitates direct communication between SGI and our valued customers and partners,” said George Skaff, chief marketing officer at SGI. “We look forward to hearing their feedback and welcoming members to SGI headquarters for demos of our products, including the ICE Cube modular data center.”
SGI speaking sessions include (see program for full listing):
About SGIUG
The SGI User Group is an independent, worldwide community focused on sharing information and improving the technical productivity of SGI high performance computing and data storage systems.
The user group is open to all, and welcomes new members, suggestions for activities and volunteers to organize the user group. It spotlights both the Linux® and IRIX ® operating systems, creating a technical community for all SGI customers.
The SGI User Group is an ideal way to access tutorials and future plans from SGI, and to have discussions with other users that will help get more from investment in SGI. The user group has a close relationship with SGI to ensure success.
The overall mission of SGIUG is to serve as an open forum to foster exchange of ideas and methodologies among computer scientists, researchers and engineers. For more information, please visit www.sgiug.org .
About SGI
SGI is a global leader in large-scale clustered computing, high performance storage, HPC and data center enablement and services. SGI is focused on helping customers solve their most demanding business and technology challenges. Visit www.sgi.com for more information.
© 2010 SGI. SGI, Altix and ICE Cube are registered trademarks or trademarks of Silicon Graphics International Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are property of their respective holders.
<source: SGI via Business Wire >
Key customer presentations, SGI Open House, ICE Cube™ and NASA tours will be featured
FREMONT, Calif., Apr 26, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — SGI (SGI 7.69, -0.28, -3.51%), a global leader in HPC and data center solutions, today announced that it will sponsor and participate in the 8th Annual SGI User Group (SGIUG) Conference to be held in Fremont, California, May 10-12, 2010. Top SGI executives, including Mark J. Barrenechea, SGI CEO, and Dr. Eng Lim Goh, SGI CTO, will be present at the conference. This year's event will feature tutorials, technical presentations and workshops. The SGIUG Conference is open to all SGI customers and partners.
“The SGIUG Conference is a unique event that brings together industry experts to provide valuable information about high-end modeling, simulation and data mining, and to share best practices, tips, techniques and ideas on high performance computing technologies with SGIUG members,” said Chuck Niggley, SGIUG president. “We are pleased that SGI works closely with the user group to help ensure its success.”
Conference highlights will include a technology presentation by Dr. Goh, as well as customer presentations by the Institute of Cancer Research and NASA Ames Research Center. A tour of the NASA Ames Research Center, home to the Pleiades Supercomputer, the largest SGI® Altix® ICE cluster — currently No. 6 on the TOP500 List, is also included. SGI will host an open house and reception at its corporate headquarters and conduct tours of its ICE Cube modular data center. Early bird registration is available until April 30.
“The SGIUG is an important organization that facilitates direct communication between SGI and our valued customers and partners,” said George Skaff, chief marketing officer at SGI. “We look forward to hearing their feedback and welcoming members to SGI headquarters for demos of our products, including the ICE Cube modular data center.”
SGI speaking sessions include (see program for full listing):
- SGI Keynote: SGI Directions Presented by: Mark J. Barrenechea, SGI CEO Date: Monday, May 10 Time: 1:00 p.m. PDT
- Technology Keynote: SGI Technology Trends Presented by: Dr. Eng Lim Goh, SGI CTO Date: Monday, May 10 Time: 11:00 a.m. PDT
- Session: SGI Product Overview Presented by: Rick Chapek, senior vice president of hardware engineering Date: Monday, May 10 Time: 2:00 p.m. PDT
About SGIUG
The SGI User Group is an independent, worldwide community focused on sharing information and improving the technical productivity of SGI high performance computing and data storage systems.
The user group is open to all, and welcomes new members, suggestions for activities and volunteers to organize the user group. It spotlights both the Linux® and IRIX ® operating systems, creating a technical community for all SGI customers.
The SGI User Group is an ideal way to access tutorials and future plans from SGI, and to have discussions with other users that will help get more from investment in SGI. The user group has a close relationship with SGI to ensure success.
The overall mission of SGIUG is to serve as an open forum to foster exchange of ideas and methodologies among computer scientists, researchers and engineers. For more information, please visit www.sgiug.org .
About SGI
SGI is a global leader in large-scale clustered computing, high performance storage, HPC and data center enablement and services. SGI is focused on helping customers solve their most demanding business and technology challenges. Visit www.sgi.com for more information.
© 2010 SGI. SGI, Altix and ICE Cube are registered trademarks or trademarks of Silicon Graphics International Corp. or its subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are property of their respective holders.
<source: SGI via Business Wire >
So, IRIX isn't entirely dead yet? I mean, there's obviously stil an interest for it and at least they're still talking about it. (I won't get my hopes up, but it's still better than nothing).
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I'd be interested.
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Did anyone attend this year or in the past?
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Do you want to buy mine? You're welcome to make me an offer (please use the private messaging system).
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