SGI Octane 3?

Originally Posted by MrGuvernment

what is it SGI speacializes in these days, werent they big in the 3D market before?

yeah, 3D workstations, back when "workstation" meant something
along with E&S, Sun, Quantum 3D, etc

Originally Posted by thesmokingman

Dude, they're still in business? I kid, though how many bankruptcies are they at now...? Aren't those reboxed BT's?

Went bankrupt and were bought out by rackable.

I'd still take and SGI O3 for all of the slot if I could. As long as I could mod the case for water cooled 295's without voiding the warranty that is.

Originally Posted by Vectrexer

I'd still take and SGI O3 for all of the slot if I could. As long as I could mod the case for water cooled 295's without voiding the warranty that is.

...sigh. It's not even worth responding to that.

Originally Posted by Zepher

fully decked out will cost about $200,000 probably.

I too thought that they were out of business. I still have a Personal Iris and an Iris Indigo sitting here.

Doubt that. We just got a new Dell Blade center all decked out at my office. That ran about 60K or so. So I don't think that will be $200,000.00.

when SGI first started selling itanium machines they were re branding Intel OEM boxs too... in all fairness so was HP

Originally Posted by Proxy

Doubt that. We just got a new Dell Blade center all decked out at my office. That ran about 60K or so. So I don't think that will be $200,000.00.

Just got a call from SGI a few minutes ago and a fully decked out machine is well over $200K. The ram alone for the machine is $110K, 120 8GB ECC Sticks of ram.

I wonder how much of a hack it would be to get this thing to fold, and how much PPD it would crunch out... :-P