[rescue] SGI files Ch11 again, bought by Rackable for $25M

[jodys at helluin.org]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 10:42:47AM -0600, jodys at helluin.org wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 12:26:10PM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 09:44:44AM -0600, jodys at helluin.org wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 11:31:31AM -0400, Jonathan J. M. Katz wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Ethan O'Toole <ethan at 757tech.net> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Where I used to work we had 1 SGI box that was ~$3 million.
> > > > >
> > > > 
> > > > I don't think they make Origin 2000s like that anymore, though, right?
> > > 
> > > No, but the Altix 4700 is the same basic architecture and uses the 4th 
> > > generation of NUMAlink (Origin 2000 used 2nd generation) 
> > 
> > What used the 1st generation?
> 
> I asked myself the same question, I believe the first generation was the
> research version, but I can't remember where I read that.

Apparently, the research for NUMAlink came out of the Stanford DASH. The 
DASH, according to the paper I'm reading [0], was prototyped out of 
qty(4) Silicon Graphics 4D/430 with R3000 CPUs and a some customer 
boards to implement the directory cache and cluster interconnect.

It looks like it ran a modified version of Irix, with the support
of Silicon Graphics.

[0] http://www2.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~epl605/readings/dash.pdf