Friday, 28 September 2018
quote [ Nearly 30 years after Silicon Graphics ruled the high-performance computing roost, its supercomputers have found themselves a new home with a small community full of enthusiasts—some of whom weren’t even alive during the company’s heyday. ]
Nostalgia for stuff you couldn't afford at the time.
SGI's $250,000 Graphics Supercomputer from 1993 - Silicon Graphics Onyx RealityEngine²
Thumb is the Indy, SGI's attempt at breaking into the low-end workstation market (starting price $4995 in 1993). Earlier this year I bought an O2 workstation (their second and last low-end model), which as the article notes is the ideal starter SGI (you can use regular PS/2 keyboards/mice and normal VGA monitors, as long as they're sync-on-green tolerant or you don't mind everything tinted green.)
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cb361 said @ 9:09am GMT on 28th Sep
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What kind of idiot community lets the single website that holds the corpus of their shared knowledge vanish, along with the guy who runs it? I have no sympathy whatsoever.
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Ankylosaur said @ 9:39am GMT on 28th Sep
They can always reform under the banner "Silicon Guises".
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lilmookieesquire said @ 2:25am GMT on 29th Sep
Ya. Only a bunch of asshats would do that.
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hellboy said @ 11:07am GMT on 28th Sep
You missed the big news in that article - Klout is dead!
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Bleb said @ 11:39pm GMT on 28th Sep
I used Indys and O2s in college. And some other SGI beer-fridge-looking thing that we used as a server. It's a little mind-blowing that hardware costing tens of thousands of dollars would take two to five minutes to render an image that my phone can now render 60 times per second.
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lilmookieesquire said @ 2:23am GMT on 29th Sep
Fun fact the former Mountainview silicon graphics office is home to their computer museum
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