Silicon Graphics International
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Silicon Graphics International Corp. (SGI; formerly Rackable Systems, Inc.) (Nasdaq: SGI), is an American manufacturer of computer hardware
and software
, including high-performance computing
solutions, x86-based server
s for datacenter deployment, and visualization products. It was founded as Rackable Systems in 1999.
On April 1, 2009, Rackable Systems announced an agreement to acquire Silicon Graphics, Inc. for $25 million. The sale, ultimately for $42.5 million, was finalized on May 11, 2009; at the same time, Rackable announced their adoption of "SGI" as their global name and brand.
In Feb 2010, SGI purchased substantially all the assets and assumed a limited amount of liabilities of COPAN Systems, Inc. COPAN was a provider of high performance storage archive solutions for real-time access to long-term persistent data, and COPAN products are now offered as part of the SGI storage line.
In March 2011 SGI acquired all outstanding shares of SGI Japan, Ltd.
On August 15, 2011, the company announced that it had acquired OpenCFD Ltd.
, developers of open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software.
At the time of the acquisition's completion, SGI said that they anticipated the majority of the two companies' product lines would survive, although there is likely to be some consolidation where the overlap between products is high.
Computer hardware
Personal computer hardware are component devices which are typically installed into or peripheral to a computer case to create a personal computer upon which system software is installed including a firmware interface such as a BIOS and an operating system which supports application software that...
and software
Computer software
Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it....
, including high-performance computing
High-performance computing
High-performance computing uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems. Today, computer systems approaching the teraflops-region are counted as HPC-computers.-Overview:...
solutions, x86-based server
Server (computing)
In the context of client-server architecture, a server is a computer program running to serve the requests of other programs, the "clients". Thus, the "server" performs some computational task on behalf of "clients"...
s for datacenter deployment, and visualization products. It was founded as Rackable Systems in 1999.
On April 1, 2009, Rackable Systems announced an agreement to acquire Silicon Graphics, Inc. for $25 million. The sale, ultimately for $42.5 million, was finalized on May 11, 2009; at the same time, Rackable announced their adoption of "SGI" as their global name and brand.
In Feb 2010, SGI purchased substantially all the assets and assumed a limited amount of liabilities of COPAN Systems, Inc. COPAN was a provider of high performance storage archive solutions for real-time access to long-term persistent data, and COPAN products are now offered as part of the SGI storage line.
In March 2011 SGI acquired all outstanding shares of SGI Japan, Ltd.
On August 15, 2011, the company announced that it had acquired OpenCFD Ltd.
OpenFOAM
OpenFOAM is a C++ toolbox for the development of customized numerical solvers, and pre-/post-processing utilities for the solution of continuum mechanics problems, including computational fluid dynamics . The code is released as free and open source software under the GNU General Public License...
, developers of open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software.
Products
The "new" SGI has two main product lines:- Servers and storage continuing from the original Rackable Systems lineup
- Servers, storage, visualization and professional services acquired from Silicon Graphics, Inc.
At the time of the acquisition's completion, SGI said that they anticipated the majority of the two companies' product lines would survive, although there is likely to be some consolidation where the overlap between products is high.