Rackable

It seems Rackable has scooped them up for a measly 25 million.

Silicon Graphics Being Sold To Rackable For Peanuts 2009

Rackable can sell into corporate data centers, but its target market is the web world giants running thousands of servers.

Rackable’s New Servers Like It Hot 2009

"Silicon Graphics Inc., once one of the computer industry's highest fliers, filed for bankruptcy protection for a second time and will sell its assets to Rackable Systems Inc. for $25 million."

Hey, What's All That Noise Outside The Gate? - NASA Watch 2009

Server vendors from HP to Rackable have talked about how this particular metric (when tied to the cost of the chips) drives large-volume server purchases, which are becoming a bigger chunk of sales as companies like Google or Facebook build out their infrastructure.

Why You Should Care About Intel’s New Server Chip 2009

Then there is an entirely different category of things that leave you scratching your head-like the news that Rackable Systems is paying just $25 million for once-mighty Silicon Graphics, which is filing for Chapter 11 protection for a second time.

Hey, What's All That Noise Outside The Gate? - NASA Watch 2009

Then there is an entirely different category of things that leave you scratching your head-like the news that Rackable Systems is paying just $25 million for once-mighty Silicon Graphics, which is filing for Chapter 11 protection for a second time.

NASA Watch: April 2009 Archives 2009

For example, earlier this year, SGI, which made proprietary machines for the HPC industry, filed for bankruptcy and sold its assets to Rackable Systems (which has changed its name to SGI).

On the Block: SiCortex’s DeLorean-Style Green Supercomputer 2009

On the chip side, many of these gains have and will continue to trickle down to all server products, but if the operators of these mega data centers become too successful at delivering computing and services through the cloud, the pool of customers for HP, Dell, Rackable and IBM may get a lot smaller.

The Rise of the Mega Data Center 2009

"Silicon Graphics Inc., once one of the computer industry's highest fliers, filed for bankruptcy protection for a second time and will sell its assets to Rackable Systems Inc. for $25 million."

NASA Watch: April 2009 Archives 2009

SGI (formerly Rackable) has built special-purpose machines for years, and keeps introducing new options for the mega data center.

Rackable’s New Servers Like It Hot 2009