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SGI's and first
The IRIX name was first used around the time of release 3. 0 of the operating system for SGI's IRIS 4D series of workstations and servers, in 1988.
Six beta-test units of the 1400 workstation were produced, and the first production unit ( SGI's first commercial computer ) was shipped to Carnegie-Mellon University's Electronic Imaging Laboratory in 1984.
SGI's first Itanium-based system was the short-lived SGI 750 workstation, launched in 2001.
All were based on Intel processors ; the first series ( 320 and 540 ) used SGI's ARCloader PROM and Cobalt video chipset, the remainder were essentially standard PC's.
There was no NUMAlink 1, as SGI's engineers deemed the system interconnect used in the Stanford DASH to be the first generation NUMAlink interconnect.
Kalpana was the world's first single-system image ( SSI ) Linux supercomputer, based on SGI's Altix 3000 architecture and 512 Intel Itanium 2 processors.

SGI's and products
Until late 2006, they were also used in many of SGI's computer products.

SGI's and with
Prior to the mid-90s different platforms had used various custom solutions, but SGI's power in the graphics market, combined with the efforts of the OpenGL Architecture Review Board ( ARB ), led to the rapid standardization of OpenGL across the majority of the graphics workstation market.
The project appears to have been a victim of SGI's shifting priorities through this period, changing directions in order to partner with larger companies.
The Indy, at the bottom of SGI's price list, was then upgraded with the MIPS R4400 and the low-cost, low-power-consumption Quantum Effect Devices ( QED ) R4600.
SGI's chief architect, Gábor Ács, and Watergate chief architect Luigi Moretti flew to New York City on May 17 and defended the complex's design in a special three-hour meeting with USCFA members.
The other Visual Workstations were built to compete with the new Intel processor based workstations that were considerably cheaper than SGI's line of MIPS workstations.

SGI's and IRIS
In 1992, SGI decided to clean up and reform IRIS GL and made the bold move of allowing the resulting OpenGL API to be cheaply licensed by SGI's competitors, and set up an industry-wide consortium to maintain the OpenGL standard ( the OpenGL Architecture Review Board ).
Performer came about in 1991 when a group from SGI's Open Inventor project, then known as IRIS Inventor, decided to focus on performance rather than ease of programmability.

SGI's and System
SGI's own Extent File System ( EFS ) replaced the System V filesystem.
Operating systems ported to the architecture include SGI's IRIX, Microsoft's Windows NT ( until v4. 0 ), Windows CE, Linux, BSD, UNIX System V, SINIX, QNX, and MIPS Computer Systems ' own RISC / os.
SGI produced a broad range of MIPS-based workstations and servers during the 1990s, running SGI's version of UNIX System V, now called IRIX.
Though CXFS supports having a heterogeneous environment ( including Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X, AIX and Windows ), either SGI's IRIX Operating System or Linux is required to be installed on the host which acts as the metadata broker.

SGI's and series
These 32-bit CPUs formed the basis of their company through the 1980s, used primarily in SGI's series of workstations and later Digital Equipment Corporation DECstation workstations and servers.

SGI's and graphics
As 3D graphics became more popular in television and film during this time, these systems were responsible for establishing much of SGI's reputation.
Once inexpensive PCs began to have graphics performance close to the more expensive specialized graphical workstations which were SGI's core business, SGI shifted its focus to high performance servers for digital video and the Web.
In the 1990s SGI's OpenGL was the de-facto standard for 3D computer graphics.
But Intel's Pentium Pro overtook the performance of RISC designs and also SGI's graphics business shrunk.
Silicon Graphics, Inc. ( SGI )- made workstations, i. e., SGI's high-end computer graphics desktop machines.
No effort was made to take advantage of SGI's advanced graphics hardware, and like many other ports the game was rendered entirely in software.
The 320 and 540 also used the on board Cobalt video adapter, which was SGI's proprietary graphics chipset.
The Elan Graphics architecture was superseded by SGI's Extreme Graphics architecture on Indigo2 models and eventually by the IMPACT graphics architecture in 1995.
The Extreme Graphics architecture was superseded by SGI's IMPACT graphics architecture in 1995.
As TAV only ran on the Silicon Graphics platform it enjoyed significant performance advantages over software-only based solutions due to its use of SGI's specialized graphics hardware supporting IrisGL, a pre-cursor to OpenGL.

SGI's and were
SGI's competitors ( including Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and IBM ) were also able to bring to market 3D hardware, supported by extensions made to the PHIGS standard.
SGI's MIPS-based systems were not to be superseded until the launch of the Itanium 2-based Altix servers and Prism workstations some time later.

SGI's and based
The system is based on SGI's Xtalk architecture.
Both Fuel and Tezro are based on SGI's Origin 3000 architecture.
Tezro was based on SGI's Origin 3000 architecture.
In another sense, the ARC standard is based on SGI's ARCS, which was used as a basis for generating the ARC standard itself, although ARC calls for a little-endian system while ARCS system is big-endian on all MIPS-based systems.

SGI's and on
With SGI's decision to transition to the Itanium and IA32 architectures, use of MIPS processors on the desktop has now disappeared almost completely.
They both later worked on extending Linux for MIPS to run on SGI's Indy computers and wrote the original X drivers for the system.
The addition of 3D graphic capabilities to PCs, and the ability of clusters of Linux-and BSD-based PCs to take on many of the tasks of larger SGI servers, ate into SGI's core markets.

SGI's and .
The R8000 powered SGI's POWER Challenge servers in the mid 1990s and later became available in the POWER Indigo2 workstation.
During SGI's ownership of MIPS, the company introduced the R8000 in 1994 and the R10000 in 1996 and a follow up the R12000 in 1997.
OpenGL evolved from ( and is very similar in style to ) SGI's earlier 3D interface, IrisGL.
Later notable employees include Joseph DiNucci, VP of Marketing, who recruited Bob Lutz, then president of Chrysler onto SGI's board.
The porting of Maya to Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows further eroded the low end of SGI's product line.
Further, SGI's premature announcement of its migration from MIPS to Itanium and its abortive ventures into IA-32 architecture systems ( the Visual Workstation line, the ex-Intergraph Zx10 range and the SGI 1000-series Linux servers ) damaged SGI's credibility in the market.

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