EISA was also available on some non-IBM compatible machines such as the AlphaServer, HP 9000-D, SGI Indigo2 and MIPS Magnum.

IRIX 6. 3 was released for the SGI O2 workstation only.

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 design was so important to SGI, at the time one of MIPS ' few major customers, that SGI bought the company outright in 1992 in order to guarantee the design would not be lost.

MIPS was so successful that SGI spun off MIPS Technologies in 1998.

SGI gave the old graphics board a new name when it was combined with R5000 in order to emphasize the improvement.

By the early 1990s, Silicon Graphics ( SGI ) was a leader in 3D graphics for workstations.

SGI considered that the IrisGL API itself was not suitable for opening due to licensing and patent issues.

On December 17, 1997, Microsoft and SGI initiated the Fahrenheit project, which was a joint effort with the goal of unifying the OpenGL and Direct3D interfaces ( and adding a scene-graph API too ).

It initially showed some promise of bringing order to the world of interactive 3D computer graphics APIs, but on account of financial constraints at SGI, strategic reasons at Microsoft, and general lack of industry support, it was abandoned in 1999.

Silicon Graphics, Inc. ( commonly initialised to SGI, historically sometimes referred to as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS ) was a manufacturer of high-performance computing solutions, including computer hardware and software, founded in 1981 by Jim Clark.

SGI was headquartered in Mountain View, California ; it was originally incorporated as a California corporation in November 1981, and reincorporated as a Delaware corporation in January 1990.

In the movie Twister, the heroes can be seen using an SGI laptop computer, however the unit shown was not an actual working computer, but rather a fake laptop shell built around an SGI Corona LCD flat screen display.

SGI was a promoter of free software, supporting several projects such as Linux and Samba, and providing some of its own previously proprietary code such as the XFS filesystem and the Open64 compiler to the free software world.

In 1999, in an attempt to clarify their current market position as more than a graphics company, Silicon Graphics Inc. changed its corporate identity to “ SGI ”, although its legal name was unchanged.

MIPS Technologies would focus entirely on the embedded market, where it was having some success, and SGI would no longer have to fund development of a CPU that, since the failure of ARC, found use only in their own machines.

SGI's first Itanium-based system was the short-lived SGI 750 workstation, launched in 2001.

In the workstation market, the switch to Itanium was not completed before SGI exited the market.

SGI announced it was postponing its scheduled annual December stockholders meeting until March 2006.

It did require that applications be recompiled —- which most developers didn't do —- still, its hardware independence was used for Silicon Graphics ( SGI ) x86 workstations – thanks to NT's Hardware abstraction layer ( HAL ), they could operate NT ( and its vast application library ).

This was often the X Window System, and in this form Display PostScript was later adopted by companies such as IBM and SGI for their workstations.

On May 8, 2006, SGI announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for itself and US subsidiaries as part of a plan to reduce debt by $ 250 million.

Stargate Infinity ( often abbreviated as SGI or just Infinity ) is an American animated science fiction television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ( MGM ) Stargate franchise, but is not considered official Stargate canon.

Damage to the driver's own vehicle is optional – one notable exception to this is in Saskatchewan, where SGI provides collision coverage ( less than a $ 1000 deductible, such as a collision damage waiver ) as part of its basic insurance policy.

Initially the SGI geometry hardware performed simple model space to screen space viewing transformations with all the lighting and shading handled by a separate hardware implementation stage, but in later, much higher performance applications such as the RealityEngine, they began to be applied to perform part of the rendering support as well.

A typical XFS user site, NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division, takes advantage of these capabilities, deploying two 300 + terabyte XFS filesystems on two SGI Altix archival storage servers, each direct attached to multiple fiber channel disk arrays.

* Wavefront Advanced Visualizer was a high-end 3D package between the late 1980s and mid-1990s, running on Silicon Graphics ( SGI ) workstations.

ParaGraph was acquired in 1997 by SGI and its handwriting recognition team formed a P & I division, later acquired from SGI by Vadem.

After World War II Sōka Gakkai formed SGI ( Sōka Gakkai International ) to support its members overseas.

Silicon Graphics ( SGI ) refocused its business from desktop graphics workstations to the high-performance computing market in the early 1990s.

First described as an insignificant " gathering of the sick and poor " after World War II in early 1950s, the perception changed to " new religious movement ", which created a substantial impact in society, and with its world wide growth, described as the largest and most diverse Buddhist group :" With 12 million members in 192 countries, SGI is the world's largest Buddhist lay group and the largest, most ethnically diverse Buddhist school in America …”.”.

A joint press release in December 1997, followed by an announcement at an ARB meeting in early 1998 by SGI, announced that work on OpenGL ++ had been abandoned and SGI had partnered with Microsoft to produce a new system code-named " Fahrenheit ".

Some of their early training engagements included courses presented to customer technical support and sales engineering staff for SGI, Motorola Computer Products, and others.

Hardware implementations of the geometry pipeline were introduced in the early Evans & Sutherland Picture System, but perhaps received broader recognition when later applied in the broad range of graphics systems products introduced by Silicon Graphics ( SGI ).

) Since the founding of Sun and SGI in the early 1980s, no new general-purpose computer company has succeeded without building computers for which there was an existing large software base, and none of the many minisupercomputer startup companies of the 1980s eventually succeeded.

Somewhere between the end of 2002 and early 2004, SGI had standardized its prayer format until 2007, when it again changed the format.

The IRIS Crimson, code named Diehard2, is a Silicon Graphics ( SGI ) computer released in the early 1990s.

Although the G364 was capable of providing comparatively high resolution output ( up to 1600 × 1200 pixels at 8 bits-per-pixel, in many cases ) typically achieved only in Unix workstations such as those of Sun Microsystems or SGI, it was not a popular chipset for the personal computer manufacturers of the early 1990s and was not adopted by any major workstation manufacturers.

It supported 8 and 16 bit file formats as well as Cineon and early ' movie ' file formats such as SGI Indeo, MPEG video and QuickTime.

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.

In the late 1990s, when much of the industry expected the Itanium to replace both CISC and RISC architectures in non-embedded computers, SGI announced their intent to phase out MIPS in their systems.

Another attempt by SGI in the late 1990s to introduce its own family of Intel-based workstations running Windows NT ( see also SGI Visual Workstation ) proved to be a financial disaster, and shook customer confidence in SGI ’ s commitment to its own MIPS-based line.

By the mid 1990s, public clusters consisted of the Solaris operating system on SPARC hardware from Sun Microsystems, and the IRIX operating system on MIPS hardware from Silicon Graphics, Inc. ( SGI ).

ARCS is a firmware bootloader ( also known as a PROM console ) used in most computers produced by SGI since the beginning of the 1990s.

* SGI IRIX-using the LV, XLV and later XVM volume managers ( 1990s and onwards )

PowerAnimator ran natively on MIPS based SGI IRIX and IBM AIX systems up until the late 1990s when it was superseded by Maya.

* Alias Animator and PowerAnimator were high-end 3D packages in the 1990s, running on Silicon Graphics ( SGI ) workstations.