[News] SGI and LynuxWorks Make New Linux Offers and Deals

[Roy Schestowitz]

SGI Extends Storage Offerings With Panasas Parallel Storage Solutions for
Cluster Environments

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| SGI will offer the Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage Clusters to customers
| deploying Linux(R) clusters, including award-winning SGI(R) Altix(R) ICE and
| Altix XE cluster solutions. Panasas ActiveStor products augment the SGI(R)
| InfiniteStorage line of storage products and data management solutions for
| HPC, data-intensive enterprise and media environments.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQM09014012008-1.htm

LynuxWorks to Provide Real-Time Operating System for New Wabtec Product

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| "Time and again, LynuxWorks' customers like Wabtec select our products
| because of our unwavering adherence to open standards such as Linux, POSIX
| and Eclipse," said Robert Day, VP Marketing, LynuxWorks.
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http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=809818

Quote for the day:

"The major reason for this is: to combat [Netscape] we have to position the
browser as “going away” and do deeper integration on Windows. The stronger way
to communicate this is to have a “new release” of Windows and make a big deal
out of it. We will thus position Memphis as “Windows 98". IE integration will
be the most compelling feature of Memphis."

--Paul Maritz, vice-president Microsoft

Related:

SGI: Still Alive And Kicking  

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| Changing times. IRIX and MIPS, the company's proprietary Unix and
| semiconductors, respectively, fell out of favor as the industry shifted to
| x86 and Linux.  
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http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3718911

North German supercomputers changing from IBM to SGI/Intel

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| Following a long tendering process, the North German Alliance for the
| Advancement of High-Performance Computing (HLRN) has decided to change over
| from IBM to SGI.  
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/100913

Born-Again SGI Spreads Its Wings

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| Another key aspect of their strategy in this market is the company's
| Industrial Strength Linux Environment (ISLE) initiative, aimed at creating a  
| software environment that meets the expectations of high performance business
| computing customers.  
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http://www.hpcwire.com/hpc/1889130.html

SGI Launches Blade-Style Altix Linux Supers

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| The new Altix Integrated Compute Environment is another step in the
| evolution of SGI, which has created a respected Altix platform using
| NUMA clustering of Itanium processors to create very large and very
|  powerful global memory clusters that run Linux.
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http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb062607-story02.html

Linux in more than 90% of top supercomputers

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| Other operating systems, such as AIX (4.8%), Solaris (0.4%) and Mac OS X
| (0.4%) make the list, but Linux is alone at the top, where it is used in 459
| systems or 91.8% of the top supercomputer systems.  
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/11/15/linux-in-more-than-90-of-top-supercomputers/
http://tinyurl.com/2rponk