Although the priesthood of Nichiren Shoshu holds the same belief, there is however a substantial difference with SGI about classifying which mandala should be employed in practice.

Buddha statues are not used for prayers in SGI practice.

After the excommunication ( 1991 ) and the Priesthood's refusal to confer the Object of Devotion on SGI members ( unless they associated themselves with a Nichiren Shōshū temple )-many new members were forced to practice without the Gohonzon.

Among various points of criticism of the Sōka Gakkai is its teaching of members for praying for material benefit as well as spiritual development in daily life: " This emphasis on benefit has been viewed with great suspicion by some Gakkai critics in the West ".. SGI clarifies the benefit of the practice as: “ Gakkai members learned to chant for vitality, courage, and mental and physical health, adequate food and housing, a decent job, a good spouse and a happy family ..

As such, the SGI membership views him as a role model for how to apply this practice in their own lives.

In practice, HSM is typically performed by dedicated software, such as IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Oracle's SAM-QFS, Quantum, SGI Data Migration Facility ( DMF ), StorNext, or EMC Legato OTG DiskXtender.

IRIX is a computer operating system developed by Silicon Graphics, Inc. ( SGI ) to run natively on their MIPS architecture workstations and servers.

SN, for Scalable Node, is a technology developed by SGI in the mid-1990s that uses cache-coherent non-uniform memory access ( cc-NUMA ).

Another element of dispute is the doctrine of the Three Treasures, with the treasure of the Priest seen by SGI as the Treasure of Sangha or Community of Believers.

and / or Sōka Gakkai International ( SGI ) is a lay Buddhist movement linking more than 12 million people around the world.

The word Daishonin is an honorific title meaning " Great Sage ", as SGI practitioners believe him to be the Buddha of the Latter Day of the Law.

The Object of Devotion in SGI is the mandala Gohonzon :“ the Gohonzon reflects Nichiren's life-state: Buddhahood ”.

Another difference is regarding the Dai Gohonzon as a super-mandala by the priesthood while this is disputed by SGI: “... it is wrong to think that the Dai-Gohonzon alone has some kind of unique mystic power that no other Gohonzon possesses.

Although Nichiren Shoshu also regards Nichiren as a Buddha, however, there is a difference between this school ’ s concept and SGI teachings.

In Nichiren Shoshu, “ Nichiren Daishonin ” is the Buddha of time without beginning ( kuon ganjo ), while according to SGI teachings, the Buddha of time without beginning is the manifestation of the state of Buddhahood Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo: “ The original Buddha whose life is without beginning or end is nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo Thus Come One ”.

SGI refers to the founder of Nichiren Buddhism by the title: the Buddha of this Latter Age of the Law: “ Nichiren revealed and spread the Law of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and inscribed it in the form of a mandala Gohonzon, to enable all people in the Latter Day of the Law to attain Buddhahood ; for this reason he is regarded as the Buddha of the Latter Day of the Law .”.

The Mentor is defined in SGI literature as :“... mentor and disciple are comrades advancing together toward the common objective of world peace ... On a more fundamental level mentor and disciple are comrades standing side by side ”, with a particular rejection of authoritarianism: “ The mentor-Disciple relationship is neither a one-way relationship from mentor above to the disciple below, nor it is an oppressive, feudalistic type of Master-Servant relationship ”.

and “ SGI is a humanistic organisation.

SGI literature defines the purpose of both mentor and disciple as working for world peace and for inner development :”... the spirit to enable people to develop to their fullest potential ... is the spirit underlying mentor-disciple relationship ”.

The Lotus Sutra ’ s phrase “ Thus I heard ” of disciples recording their mentor ’ s teachings even after he passed away, is regarded in SGI as the foundation of the concept of the bond leading to transfer of teachings :” The Lotus Sutra is an embodiment of the spirit of the oneness of mentor and disciple ”, and: “ The Lotus Sutra calls out for mentor and disciple to work together ”.

The life of Buddha ( Gohonzon ) and the World of Buddhahood ( Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo ) are considered as the original mentors of SGI: “ The Gohonzon manifests in its entirety the great state of life of the Buddha who is our eternal mentor ”.

The success of this initial processor version was limited to replacing PA-RISC in HP systems, Alpha in Compaq systems and MIPS in SGI systems, though IBM also delivered a supercomputer based on this processor.

The success of the company's first foray into server systems, the Challenge series based on the R4400 and R8000, and later R10000, motivated SGI to create a vastly more powerful system.

Its MIPS based supercomputers were withdrawn in 2005 when SGI made the strategic decision to move to Intel's IA-64 architecture.

The R4600 and R4700 were used in low-cost versions of the SGI Indy workstation as well as the first MIPS based Cisco routers, such as the 36x0 and 7x00-series routers.

In 1994, SGI played with the idea of releasing something called " OpenGL ++" which included elements such as a scene-graph API ( presumably based on their Performer technology ).

In 1998, SGI announced that future generations of its machines would be based not on their own MIPS processors, but the upcoming " super-chip " from Intel, code-named " Merced " and later called Itanium.

Although SGI continued to market Itanium-based machines, its more recent machines were based on the Intel Xeon processor.

In April 2008, SGI re-entered the visualization market with the SGI Virtu range of visualization servers and workstations, which were re-badged systems from BOXX Technologies based on Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron processors and Nvidia Quadro graphics chipsets, running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or Windows Compute Cluster Server.

SGI continued to enhance its line of servers ( including some supercomputers ) based on the SN architecture.

* SGI ended general availability of its MIPS based SGI Fuel and SGI Tezro workstations in December, 2006.

# SGI shall contribute to peace, culture and education for the happiness and welfare of all humanity based on Buddhist respect for the sanctity of life.

# SGI, based on the ideal of world citizenship, shall safeguard fundamental human rights and not discriminate against any individual on any grounds.

# SGI shall, based on the Buddhist spirit of tolerance, respect other religions, engage in dialogue and work together with them toward the resolution of fundamental issues concerning humanity.

# SGI shall promote, based on the Buddhist ideal of symbiosis, the protection of nature and the environment.

SGI states its teachings are based on peaceful propagation of Nichiren Buddhism: " SGI remains committed to the role of dialogue in the advancement of peace, education, and culture ".

SGI is also criticized for its doctrinal teachings based on Nichiren Buddhism, perceived by some observers to be lacking tolerance towards other forms of Buddhism .. On the other hand, Nichiren Buddhism clarifies the way of peaceful and free expression in debates about various schools differences: “ Even in the case of the Nembutsu priests, the Zen priests, and the True Word teachers, and the ruler of the nation and other men of authority, all of whom bear me such hatred — I admonish them because I want to help them, and their hatred for me makes me pity them all the more ”.

At the 20 – 21 August 1996 meeting of the OpenGL Architecture Review Board ( ARB ), SGI floated the idea of a new standardized scene graph similar to Cosmo3D but with the express intent of being based on " standard " OpenGL.

These options are based on the same " Express Graphics " architecture from the original SGI Indigo, but feature improved performance.

Set Engineering produced one such fast Ethernet card, based on the Texas Instruments ThunderLAN chipset, under contract with SGI.

( Originally based upon Alex's SGI page ( PageMirror ), public domain as of September 7, 2003 )