[geeks] THIS. MAKES. ME. SICK.

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Oh, buy the way, check out the pictures of the MTA machines.  They are
darn sexy.

http://www.tera.com/products/systems/gallery/mta.html

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Joshua Boyd

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> 
> > hey, SGI isn't doing too well these days.  at least they didn't just slap a
> > Cray logo on a big Origin box.
> 
> Actually they did do that, hence the former line of machines know as the
> cray origins.  My understanding is that the Cray Origins differed from 
> the SGI Origins in the area of interconnect hardware, since the Crays
> spanned multiple racks, but I think the SGIs were confined to one
> rack.  But this is just theory and hersay.
> 
> But, maybe you were just being sarcastic.
>  
> > > At least they didn't insult us by using Intel hardware.
> > 
> > the Alpha is actually a pretty slick CPU.  not vector mind you, but how much
> > call is there for big vector machines these days? (Dave or James?)
>  
> The Alpha's do have vector extensions though... (called Max, I think).
> 
> > the Linux bit doesn't exactly thrill me, but that's just SGI's adoption of
> > Linux all around that we won't seem to be able to avoid.  i'm not going to
> > say any more, i always tend to piss of the Linux crowd.
> 
> You do realize that Cray is no longer affiliated with SGI, don't you?
> The Cray division was sold to a company called Tera.  Tera promptly
> changed their name to Cray and merged the two product lines, so the SV1
>  came from the Cray purchase, but the MTA came from the Tera side.  I
> think the SX-5 is also from the Tera side, and of course, the T3E and T90
> come from the Cray side.
> 
> The SV-2, MTA-2, and SuperCluster are from the newly formed company.
> Presumably they tried to integrate the two sides together rather than
> continuing to have two "sides". 
> 
> --
> Joshua Boyd
> 
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