NASA has successfully fired up the first SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer with a single operating system spanning all 512 processors. Stephen Shankland Former Principal Writer Stephen Shankland worked at ...

NASA's Ames Research Center recently began using its most powerful parallel-processor supercomputer for tasks ranging from accurately predicting hurricane paths to calculating airflow around an ...

Using supercomputers from Silicon Graphics Inc., NASA can now better evaluate the effect of natural and human activities on global climate. Mountain View, Calif-based SGI said today that NASA is using ...

SGI has launched a graphics-oriented server that extends its Origin family of servers toward a more departmental or workgroup type of user, at a lower, entry-level price of $24,000. SGI, formerly ...