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SGI Platforms Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 Clear IT Security Hurdle
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| Passing the evaluation, which was performed by atsec, means that SGI Altix
| systems received Common Criteria Security Certification EAL 4+ from the
| National Information Assurance Partnership (NIAP), a U.S. Government
| initiative developed to meet the security testing needs of both IT consumers
| and producers.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/sgi-platforms-running-red-hat/story.aspx?guid=%7B108915CC-DE72-4777-B11C-B74B984E20C9%7D&dist=hppr
Not bad for software which the Microsoft Munchkins say is produced by kids in a
garage.
Recent:
SGI Pushes Into Data Warehousing with Linux Supers and Oracle
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| Specifically, SGI is partnering with database maker Oracle to create data
| warehouses that run on its Linux-based Altix supercomputers. The solution
| that the two companies have come up with is called the Adaptive Data
| Warehouse, and it combines Altix servers, SGI's InfiniteStorage disk arrays,
| and the Oracle database with the Real Application Clusters (RAC) clustered
| database extensions.
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http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb061708-story07.html
SGI slots 'Seaburg' chipset into blades
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| Altix ICE blades now include SGI ProPack for Linux, which gives granular
| control over throughput and I/O performance. The blades also include an
| updated version of SGI's Tempo cluster management tool. Tempo lets admins
| restrict traffic within the rack or within the blades themselves to keep
| extraneous traffic off the network.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/21/sgi_does_seaburg_chips/
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
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
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