I went to an Origin 2000/Onyx2 training back in 1997. I think 97. It was at the building that is now the Computer History Museum. Most of the people I met were with the military and oil and gas. The US government had a lot of SGIs. In fact for a while, we used to look for parts on the gov auctions. On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 1:18 PM Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
OK- while SGI is usually associated with the desktop gfx visualization space they did quite a lot in the cluster and super computing space...
The Power Challenge and Origin systems were all designed to be supercomputing clusters.
The MIPS R8000 was a fascinating dead-end in chip development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R8000 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R8000>
I look forward to visiting and seeing what you have out there.
-andy