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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • April 27, 2005
    SGI and Orion Multisystems have each announced high-end, penguin-powered workstations.

    SGI announces the newest addition to a line of products which began with the Linux-based Altix, currently one of the fastest computer systems in the world. This one fits under your desk.

    ``SGI's new system, which costs between $8,500 and $39,000, accommodates one or two Itanium 2 processors and as much as 24GB of memory, the company is expected to announce Tuesday. It's based on the same technology, including the Linux operating system and ATI graphics hardware, as the company's higher-end Prism products introduced last October.''

    Full story at News.com:
    http://news.com.com/2100-1010-5684047.html

    And how about 96 processors under your desk?

    ``Start-up Orion Multisystems has begun shipping computers for those engineers, graphic designers and biologists who need 96 processors and 192GB of memory at their desks. Orion specializes in clustered workstations, computers that break up complex tasks so they can be digested by several linked processors simultaneously.''

    Full story at News.com:
    http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5683650.html

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