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SGI CEO Clarifies Itanium Stance

July 27th, 2009 | No Comments

Days after SGI officials said the next-generation Altix system dubbed “Ultraviolet” would be powered by Intels upcoming Xeon “Nehalem EX” chips, SGI CEO Mark Barrenechea said in a blog that the company will continue developing systems powered by Itanium, and that Ultraviolet will support both Xeon and Itanium processors. However, the first Ultraviolet systems will be powered by Intel’s eight-core Nehalem EX chips.
– SGI might be building a new high-end Altix system powered by Intels upcoming “Nehalem EX” chips, but that doesnt mean the company is abandoning Itanium, according to SGI CEO Mark Barrenechea.
In a blog post July 24, Barrenechea said that SGI will continue supporting and developing systems that run …


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SGI Continues Push into HPC, but Without Itanium

July 23rd, 2009 | No Comments

Two months after Rackable Systems closed the deal to buy the old SGI, officials with the new SGI are touting a product road map that shows a future not only for Rackable servers, but also for the legacy SGI hardware. SGI officials also are saying both Rackable hardware and legacy SGI hardware are attractive to the HPC space. However, the next-generation high-end Altix system, code-named Ultraviolet, will be powered not by Itanium processors but by Intel’s upcoming processors code-named Nehalem EX.
– When Rackable Systems closed its $42.5 million acquisition of Silicon
Graphics Inc. in May, officials touted the new company as one that could play a
significant role not only in the data center, but also in the supercomputing
space.
Two months later, officials with the new SGI now
Silicon Grap…


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