Why do you think the SGI special-purpose
systems that DreamWorks formerly used were so much more expensive than the
Intel/Linux systems it uses now?
SGI (Silicon Graphics) is a leading manufacturer of
high-performance computing, data management, and visualization products.
SGI workstations and servers are optimized for tasks related to computer
graphics processing. The company's products target five key market segments:
manufacturing, life sciences, energy, government, and media. SGI is based in
Mountain View, California, and has offices worldwide.
SGI recently announced a new technology called Visual Area Networking that allows
users to interact with advanced visualization programs from any device over
standard networks. Using the company's OpenGL Vizserver
2.0 software, users and groups of users will be able to access programs on
supercomputers. This is intended to enable users to visualize and work with
data as if their systems had advanced capabilities, no matter what their actual
situation.
Linux is a remarkably complete
operating system, including a graphical user interface, an X Window System, TCP/IP, the Emacs editor, and
other components usually found in a comprehensive Unix system. Although
copyrights are held by various creators of Linux's components, Linux is
distributed using the Free Software Foundation's copy left provisions
that mean any modified version that is redistributed must in turn be freely
available.
Now, Linux
is an alternative for public developed instead Microsoft Windows. It keeps
growing in business enterprise by using Linux and Unix is popular among users
too.
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