Anyone Seen this?

[obob]

http://www.sgi.com/features/2006/august/stonybrook/

Don't feel like looking for it on a "proper" news site, but I figure that's good enough to get the information out, hehe...

It's interesting to consider for a moment that AIDS is basically getting it's ass handed to it by a pile of silicon and steel, in the most basic sense. I'm just glad to see some actually USEFUL research finally coming out of these computing ventures into disease, instead of "we're computing, stfu, when it's done" as an offical line, with supporters arguging how it's oh so beneficial...

[adiment]

seems more useful than protein folding, which costs people money and hasn't found anything - and when they do, Stanford will get all the credit, or sell the information. Free work is even better than outsourcing.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

and they run Linux

[Orethrius]

and they run Linux

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Oh ... I see. Ahhh ... well good thing. Linspire is as far from a Linux distro as you can get. Do we have to use the

[piratePenguin]

what's so bad about Linspire? Their CNR thing seems very cool (and it's free (as in free beer) now, and open source (no idea of the exact licensing))..

[obob]

I don't think we do, but Linux is always attributed as "Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds" when posted on a corporate website, like SGI, Sun, Novell, IBM, Microsoft, etc

don't think we do, given that we don't put it after anything else (we don't type "Intel Pentium(R) 4" do we?)

I'm sort of surprised how quickly SGI has abandoned IRIX 6.x, which used to be their whole pride and joy, and now they've transitioned their top shelf servers towards Itanium2 and Linux, and their workstations are moving in the same direction afaik

while Origin seems to be run to a standstill with the R16k series MIPS procs (i think 16k is the top, idk, might be off a tad bit there) and IRIX 6.5.x, then again, who buys an Origin?

[worker201]

Nice thread hijack.

SGI probably just doesn't want to have to deal with software development.  Why would they want to?  With most of the Linux team doing all the work basically for free, you'd be a fool to build a *nix system with some proprietary OS on it.  I used Irix, about 5 years ago - unless it got monumentally better since then, they needed all the help they could get, especially on the graphical interface side.

They probably also have customers who want to run Linux apps.

[hm_murdock]

Irix is still junk.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Thread Hijack ? I don't think this thead had a point in the first place.

[pofnlice]

welll...we started with computers being used to model HIV behaviour to assist medicine into destroying it...

We are now talking about How much Iris sux, What's up with Linspire, how cool servers are and trademarking....

I would say that qualifies as a highjack.

[piratePenguin]

Welcome to the lounge. Please have a seat.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Getting rid of HIV ... ok, great, but I think the important part was the fact that they used supercomputers running Linux to do it.

[pofnlice]

allow myself to quote....myslef...

welll...we started with computers being used to model HIV behaviour to assist medicine into destroying it...

Yep, that sounds about right...