“Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) plans to introduce a version of its
Origin 3000 series computer built around Intel’s 64-bit IA-64
Itanium processor running Linux, according to SGI Chairman and CEO
Robert Bishop.”
“The current Origin 3000 computers from SGI are built around
processors from MIPS Technologies and run SGI’s proprietary Irix
operating system. SGI has not decided as yet on the name for the
new product line….”
“We would be happy to see Linux become more scalable based on
its own development, but if it doesn’t, then we will scale it
ourselves and offer it to the market,” Bishop said.”
“SGI also would cooperate with other computer makers in this
regard, and may even put its implementation of NUMA into open
source. SGI has already made a number of contributions to the Linux
open-source community, including the release of its Pro64 compilers
for the Itanium processor and its journaled file system technology,
XFS.”