Silicon Graphics

Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Company type	Public
Industry	High-performance computing, computer hardware, computer software
Founded	November 1, 1981; 45 years ago in Mountain View, California, U.S.
Founder	James H. Clark
Defunct	May 11, 2009
Fate	Acquired by Rackable Systems (which renamed itself Silicon Graphics International)
Headquarters	Mountain View, California (original); later Sunnyvale, California, United States
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	James H. Clark (founder), Ed McCracken (CEO 1984–1997), Richard Belluzzo (CEO), Dennis McKenna (CEO from 2006)
Products	3D graphics workstations, visualization hardware and software, supercomputers
Parent	Rackable Systems (after 2009 acquisition)

Silicon Graphics, Inc.—initially known as SiliconGraphics until 1999, later abbreviated as SGI, and formerly called Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS—was an American company focused on high-performance computing, specializing in both hardware and software solutions. Established in Mountain View, California, in November 1981 by entrepreneur and computer scientist James H. Clark, who also founded Netscape, SGI originally concentrated on the market for 3D graphics workstations.

The company's foundational products revolved around the Geometry Engine, which Clark and Marc Hannah developed at Stanford University. This VLSI-based geometry pipeline significantly sped up essential calculations for three-dimensional graphics, positioning SGI as a leading provider of visualization and graphics hardware and software.

In January 1990, the firm was reincorporated in Delaware. Throughout the mid to late 1990s, SGI encountered mounting competition from rapidly evolving commodity Wintel platforms. The expansion of Maya onto alternative operating systems diminished SGI’s market dominance. Efforts to transition from the MIPS architecture to Intel Itanium processors and subsequently to Linux-based Intel IA-32 workstations and servers did not restore its competitive edge. By the mid-2000s, SGI attempted to redefine itself as a supercomputing vendor, but this pivot also failed to achieve lasting success.

On April 1, 2009, SGI sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and arranged to sell the majority of its assets to Rackable Systems. The acquisition finalized on May 11, 2009, with Rackable adopting the Silicon Graphics International name. The remaining entity was renamed Graphics Properties Holdings, Inc.

Founding period

James H. Clark, then an electrical engineering professor at Stanford University, launched SGI in 1982 alongside seven graduate students and research personnel from Stanford: Kurt Akeley, David J. Brown, Tom Davis, Rocky Rhodes, Marc Hannah, Herb Kuta, and Mark Grossman; joined by Abbey Silverstone and others.

Expansion

From 1984 until 1997, Ed McCracken held the position of CEO, steering SGI through substantial growth as annual revenues surged from $5.4 million to $3.7 billion, reflecting the company’s expanding market presence.

Downturn

As 3D graphics functionality became integrated into standard personal computers and clusters based on Linux and BSD took over workloads previously handled by SGI servers, the company’s primary market contracted. The migration of critical software such as Maya to Linux, Mac OS, and Windows platforms further eroded sales of SGI’s entry-level products.

After a drop in stock value, McCracken was succeeded by Richard Belluzzo, whose strategic choices accelerated the company’s decline. Belluzzo introduced Windows NT-based workstations (SGI Visual Workstation) alongside existing IRIX systems, placing SGI in direct competition with mainstream PC manufacturers like Dell and undermining its premium pricing model. This product line was eventually discontinued.

SGI’s plans to switch from MIPS processors to Itanium chips, combined with unsuccessful attempts at IA-32 architecture systems—including the Visual Workstation series, former Intergraph Zx10 models, and SGI 1000-series Linux servers—diminished its credibility within the market.

In 1999, aiming to diversify beyond graphics hardware, Silicon Graphics Inc. rebranded itself as "SGI," while maintaining its legal corporate name. A new logo featuring lowercase "sgi" designed by Landor Associates and Joe Stitzlein was introduced; however, some workstation models continued displaying the original cube emblem.

By November 2005, SGI was removed from the New York Stock Exchange after its share price dropped below required thresholds. Market capitalization fell dramatically from over $7 billion in 1995 to just $120 million at delisting. Early in 2006, SGI issued warnings about potentially depleting its cash reserves before year-end, indicating severe financial challenges.

Re-emergence

In mid-2005, SGI enlisted the expertise of Alix Partners to devise strategies for regaining profitability and successfully obtained a new credit facility. The company deferred its annual shareholders meeting until March 2006 and proposed a reverse stock split as a measure to prevent delisting from the New York Stock Exchange.

Dennis McKenna took over as CEO and chairman in January 2006, replacing Robert Bishop, who continued serving as vice chairman.

On May 8, 2006, SGI and its U.S. subsidiaries filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the goal of reducing their debt burden by $250 million. Two days later, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court authorized a $70 million financing arrangement from bondholders; foreign subsidiaries remained unaffected by this filing.

SGI announced on September 6, 2006, the termination of development for its MIPS/IRIX product line and the IRIX operating system, ceasing production by December 29 and fulfilling outstanding orders through March 2007. Official support for IRIX concluded after December 2013.

The company successfully emerged from bankruptcy on October 17, 2006. Its previous stock ticker on the Pink Sheets (SGID) was canceled, with new shares issued under the NASDAQ symbol SGIC distributed to creditors; former common shareholders saw their holdings nullified. By the end of that year, SGI relocated its headquarters from Mountain View to Sunnyvale. The former North Shoreline office became home to the Computer History Museum, while the Amphitheatre Parkway site was sold to Google, which had been subleasing it since 2003. Both facilities were designed by Studios Architecture.

In April 2008, SGI made a return to the visualization sector with its SGI Virtu product line—rebranded machines originally from BOXX Technologies, equipped with Intel Xeon or AMD Opteron processors and Nvidia Quadro graphics cards, running operating systems including Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, or Windows Compute Cluster Server.

Final bankruptcy and acquisition by Rackable Systems

In December 2008, SGI received notice from NASDAQ regarding delisting due to its market capitalization remaining below $35 million for ten consecutive trading days and failing to satisfy alternative financial benchmarks such as shareholders’ equity or net income.

SGI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection again on April 1, 2009, concurrently agreeing to sell most of its assets to Rackable Systems for $25 million. The transaction was completed on May 11, 2009, at a final price of $42.5 million. Following the acquisition, Rackable adopted the "Silicon Graphics International" brand as part of its global business strategy. Bankruptcy court proceedings extended into mid-2009.

Post-acquisition analyses emphasized SGI’s decline within the industry. In November 2016, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) acquired Silicon Graphics International, incorporating SGI’s high-performance computing assets—including NASA Ames’ Pleiades supercomputer—into HPE’s portfolio to strengthen its position in big data analytics and HPC markets.

Graphics Properties Holdings, Inc. era

During its second bankruptcy phase, Silicon Graphics Inc. was renamed Graphics Properties Holdings, Inc. (GPHI) in June 2009.

In 2010, GPHI achieved a favorable decision in patent litigation against ATI Technologies and AMD related to claims originating during Silicon Graphics’ operations. The Federal Circuit upheld GPHI's U.S. Patent No. 6,650,327 as valid and limited AMD’s ability to further contest it. However, in January 2011, a District Court permitted AMD to mount an invalidity defense and prevented SGI from alleging infringement against AMD’s Radeon R700 series. By April 2011, GPHI and AMD reached a confidential settlement granting AMD immunity under GPHI patents in exchange for a nominal payment.

November 2011 saw GPHI initiate another patent infringement suit against Apple Inc., expanding allegations to include U.S. patents 6,650,327; 6,816,145; and 5,717,881.

In 2012, GPHI broadened litigation efforts targeting Apple, Sony, HTC Corp., LG Electronics Inc., Samsung Electronics Co., and Research in Motion Ltd., accusing them of infringing patents related to graphic processes that convert textual and image data into pixel representations for display devices. The lawsuits covered products such as Apple iPhone models, HTC EVO4G, LG Thrill smartphones, RIM Torch devices, Samsung Galaxy S series phones, and Sony Xperia Play handsets.

Significant patents involved include:

U.S. Patent 6,650,327 – Display system utilizing floating point rasterization
U.S. Patent 6,885,376 – System for near-real-time load balancing
U.S. Patent 6,816,145 – Wide aspect ratio large-area flat panel monitor
U.S. Patent 5,717,881 – Data processing system handling one- and two-parcel instructions

Systems Based on Motorola 680x0

SGI's earliest offerings, starting with the IRIS 1000 series of high-performance graphics terminals, utilized the Motorola 68000 CPU family. Subsequent IRIS 2000 and 3000 models evolved into complete UNIX workstation platforms.

IRIS 1000 Series

Introduced in 1984, the 1000 series (including models 1000 and 1200) functioned as graphics terminals designed to complement general-purpose machines such as Digital Equipment Corporation VAX. These devices provided advanced raster graphics capabilities. They were powered by 8 MHz Motorola 68000 processors, equipped with 768 kB of RAM, and lacked disk drives, relying instead on network booting via an Excelan EXOS/101 Ethernet interface. The system architecture incorporated the GF1 frame buffer alongside various controllers built around the Multibus standard.

Subsequent variants, the 1400 and 1500 models, operated at 10 MHz and included 1.5 MB of RAM; the 1400 housed a 72 MB hard disk, while the 1500 offered a larger 474 MB SMD drive managed by a Xylogics controller. These units probably employed upgraded CPU and memory boards originating from the 2000 series. The first commercially sold SGI computer was a model 1400 delivered to Carnegie-Mellon University in 1984.

IRIS 2000 and 3000 Series

With the launch of the IRIS 2000 series in August 1985, SGI transitioned to fully-fledged UNIX workstations running UNIX System V. This lineup featured models powered by Motorola 68010 processors (2000/2200/2300/2400/2500) and later "Turbo" editions utilizing Motorola 68020 CPUs (2300T, 2400T, 2500T). All systems incorporated Excelan EXOS/201 Ethernet cards and consistent graphics hardware. Variations among models involved processor speeds, memory capacity, floating-point accelerator presence, disk controller types, and storage devices (ST-506 and SMD). Model upgrades were supported within this range. The larger chassis of higher-end models accommodated multiple SMD hard drives.

The IRIS 3000 series (including desktop models 3010/3020/3030 and rack-mounted versions such as 3110/3115/3120/3130) marked the culmination of SGI's use of Motorola CPUs in their workstations. Retaining the same graphics architecture, these systems introduced up to twelve "geometry engines," an early form of hardware acceleration for graphics processing. Standard displays were non-interlaced with a refresh rate of 60 Hz and featured ergonomic designs.

A standout model, the IRIS 3130, enabled comprehensive UNIX-based three-dimensional animation and rendering workflows without dependence on mainframe computers. Equipped with dual large-capacity hard drives (each holding 300 MB), streaming tape storage, and Ethernet connectivity, it functioned as a central hub for animation production efforts.

SGI discontinued its Motorola-based IRIS product lines in November 1989 after shipping roughly 3,500 units across all variants.

Transition to RISC Architecture

The introduction of the IRIS 4D series marked SGI's shift to MIPS microprocessors, significantly boosting performance through integrated floating-point capabilities. These systems contributed substantially to SGI's growing prominence as three-dimensional graphics became increasingly important in television and film industries.

Throughout the 1990s, SGI delivered a wide array of MIPS-powered workstations and servers operating its UNIX System V derivative known as IRIX. Among these were the large-scale Onyx visualization platforms capable of supporting up to sixty-four processors while managing multiple high-resolution three-dimensional graphic streams simultaneously.

In October 1991, MIPS launched the first commercial 64-bit microprocessor—the R4000—which SGI incorporated into its Crimson workstation model. The release of IRIX version 6.2 marked its first fully 64-bit operating system iteration.

To ensure a stable supply of MIPS processors for future products, SGI acquired MIPS Computer Systems in 1992 for $333 million, creating MIPS Technologies Inc. as a wholly owned subsidiary. This move aligned with SGI's strategic aim to maintain control over essential technology components.

In a collaboration initiated in 1993 with Nintendo, SGI developed the Reality Coprocessor (RCP) GPU for use in the Nintendo 64 console launched in 1996. SGI’s Nintendo Operations division led this effort under engineer Dr. Wei Yen. In 1997, Yen and twenty colleagues departed SGI to establish ArtX, which was subsequently acquired by ATI Technologies in 2000.

SGI began divesting its holdings in MIPS Technologies through a re-IPO process in 1998 and completed full divestiture by the year 2000.

By the late decade’s close—and anticipating Itanium’s emergence over both CISC and RISC architectures—SGI planned to phase out MIPS processors entirely. Development ceased on new MIPS chips while extending production of the R12000 design through until 2003 to facilitate customer transitions to Itanium-based systems.

In August of 2006, SGI terminated manufacturing of MIPS/IRIX products; by year-end these systems were no longer widely available on the market.

IRIS GL and OpenGL

Prior to the second generation of Onyx Reality Engine systems, SGI offered access to its advanced 3D graphics hardware through a proprietary interface known as the IRIS Graphics Library (IRIS GL). As capabilities grew, IRIS GL became increasingly intricate and challenging to support. In 1992, SGI transformed IRIS GL into the more refined and standardized OpenGL API, which was then licensed at low cost to competitors. Additionally, SGI established the OpenGL Architecture Review Board to govern the evolution of this standard.

This initiative fostered the creation of rapid, efficient, and platform-independent graphics software, profoundly shaping the graphics sector. For more than two decades—until the emergence of the Vulkan API—OpenGL stood as the premier real-time 3D graphics standard compatible across diverse operating systems, solidifying SGI’s leadership and competitive edge in graphics technology.

ACE Consortium

In the early 1990s, SGI joined the Advanced Computing Environment (ACE) consortium alongside approximately 20 other companies including Compaq, Digital Equipment Corporation, MIPS Computer Systems, Groupe Bull, Siemens, NEC, Microsoft, among others. The group's objective was to create workstations based on MIPS architecture capable of running both Windows NT and SCO UNIX operating systems. The ACE effort produced the Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) specification to serve as a common standard for these platforms. Despite this progress, the consortium began to disband shortly after its inception, limiting its enduring influence on the industry.

Entertainment industry

Between 1995 and 2002, every film nominated for the Academy Award for Distinguished Achievement in Visual Effects utilized Silicon Graphics computer systems, underscoring SGI’s significant role within the entertainment sector. Moreover, SGI technology was extensively applied in commercial productions.

An SGI Crimson workstation featuring the fsn three-dimensional file system navigator was prominently displayed in the 1993 movie Jurassic Park. The 1996 film Twister included an SGI laptop as a prop; although non-functional, it incorporated an SGI Corona display. Similarly, in Congo (1995), an SGI laptop was depicted as a communication device via satellite.

The distinctive purple lowercase "sgi" logo appeared during the opening credits of HBO’s series Silicon Valley, before being succeeded by Google’s logo. Notably, Google leased and subsequently acquired the former SGI headquarters located in Mountain View, California—reflecting SGI's enduring presence in Silicon Valley's commercial real estate landscape.

As affordable PCs enhanced their graphics capabilities and began to encroach on SGI’s core workstation market, the company redirected its efforts toward high-performance servers tailored for digital video and web services. Many ex-SGI engineers transitioned to firms such as ATI and Nvidia, where they contributed significantly to advancements in PC 3D graphics technologies.

Free software

SGI actively supported open-source initiatives including Linux and Samba, while also releasing some proprietary software components as open source—such as the XFS filesystem and Open64 compiler. The company made notable contributions to the C++ Standard Template Library (STL) through its MIT-licensed SGI STL implementation, which influenced subsequent projects like STLport and GNU's libstdc++.

Acquisition of Alias, Wavefront, Cray, and Intergraph

In 1995, SGI purchased Alias Research, Kroyer Films, and Wavefront Technologies for approximately $500 million, consolidating them into the entity known as Alias|Wavefront. Later, in 2004, SGI divested Alias/Wavefront to the private equity firm Accel-KKR for $57.5 million. The following year, Autodesk acquired Alias for $182 million.

The following year, 1996, saw SGI acquire supercomputer manufacturer Cray Research for $740 million. SGI incorporated Cray’s technologies into its server products under brands such as "CrayLink." Soon after, the Cray Business Systems Division was sold to Sun Microsystems for less than $100 million. Numerous former Cray engineers played key roles in developing SGI’s Altix and NUMAlink technologies. In 2000, SGI transferred the Cray brand and product lines to Tera Computer Company for $35 million plus equity stakes. That same year marked SGI’s divestiture of its remaining holdings in MIPS Technologies.

Also in 2000, SGI acquired Intergraph Computer Systems' Zx10 line of Windows workstations and servers—reportedly for around $100 million—rebranding these products under the SGI name before discontinuing them in 2001.

SGI Visual Workstations

During the late 1990s, SGI introduced a series of Intel-based workstations running Windows NT or Red Hat Linux (see SGI Visual Workstation). This initiative failed to achieve financial success and weakened customer trust in SGI’s dedication to its MIPS-based platforms.

Transition to Itanium

In 1998, SGI altered its strategic direction by announcing plans to adopt Intel’s forthcoming "Merced" processor (later known as Itanium) for future systems instead of continuing with its proprietary MIPS CPUs. Investment in internal processor development was curtailed, with the R10000 serving as the last widely used MIPS chip. SGI intended to concentrate on embedded applications via MIPS Technologies, thereby lowering internal CPU development expenses. Nevertheless, delays and performance shortcomings of Itanium compelled SGI to advance its MIPS line with processors like the R12000, R14000, and R16000 from 1999 through 2006.

The SGI 750 workstation, introduced in 2001, was the company’s initial Itanium-based product but had a brief market presence. The full migration from MIPS to Itanium processors occurred subsequently with the release of Itanium 2-powered Altix servers and Prism workstations. Unlike MIPS-based systems running IRIX, these platforms operated on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server enhanced by SGI. To preserve application compatibility, SGI utilized emulation technology from Transitive Corporation, specifically their QuickTransit software.

Within the server lineup, Itanium 2-driven Altix systems superseded the MIPS-based Origin series. However, the transition in workstations remained unfinished when SGI exited that segment. Notably, by 2006, an Altix system held the title of the world’s most powerful single-instance operating system computer with 512 Itanium processors. Furthermore, a cluster comprising twenty Altix units was ranked as the eighth fastest supercomputer worldwide. As supercomputing evolved toward clusters composed of numerous less-powerful nodes, SGI shifted away from large-scale NUMA architectures toward cluster-oriented designs by 2007.

Transition to Xeon

Although SGI continued offering Itanium-based systems for some time, newer products increasingly incorporated Intel Xeon processors. Initial Altix XE models targeted lower-tier markets; however, by December 2006, XE systems had surpassed Itanium-based machines in key areas such as power efficiency (FLOPS per watt), density (FLOPS per cubic meter), and cost effectiveness per FLOPS. The XE1200 and XE1300 server lines introduced a clustered architecture that departed from the strictly NUMA configurations characteristic of earlier Itanium and MIPS platforms.

In June 2007, SGI unveiled the Altix ICE 8200—a blade server system powered by Xeon processors capable of supporting up to 512 cores per rack. An installation of Altix ICE 8200 at the New Mexico Computing Applications Center featured 14,336 processors and achieved third place on the November 2007 TOP500 supercomputer ranking.

User base and primary market segments

Despite the common perception that SGI primarily targeted the Hollywood visual effects industry, its most substantial revenue streams historically originated from sectors such as government and defense, energy, and scientific research computing. A significant milestone for SGI was its largest single contract with the United States Postal Service, which utilized SGI technology to power AI-based mail sorting operations. The emergence of cost-effective commodity workstations operating on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X—offering a broad array of professional applications—gradually displaced SGI from mainstream visual effects markets, leaving it to serve more specialized niches.

Advanced server segment

SGI developed and refined its high-performance servers and supercomputers around the SN architecture (Scalable Node), introduced in the mid-1990s. This architecture employs cache-coherent non-uniform memory access (cc-NUMA), where processors, memory modules, and controllers are organized into nodes interconnected by a high-speed network known as NUMAlink. This switched-fabric topology eliminates the need for internal buses, enabling scalable expansion of CPU count, memory size, input/output capacity, and overall system bandwidth within a unified operating system environment—facilitating easier programming and delivering superior sustained performance compared to non-coherent cluster designs.

The initial SN model, SN-0 (Origin 2000), was launched in 1996 featuring MIPS R10000 CPUs with scalability ranging from 2 up to 128 processors; smaller configurations supported fewer CPUs. The subsequent generation, SN-1 (Origin 3000), appeared in 2000 with the ability to scale up to 512 processors; custom orders could extend this capacity to 1,024 CPUs. In 2002, the Origin 3900 introduced a fat tree interconnect that quadrupled processor density per rack.

In 2003, SGI unveiled the Altix 3000 (SN-IA), which incorporated Intel Itanium 2 processors running Linux and was recognized as the most scalable Linux system at that time—supporting up to 64 CPUs per node. Multiple nodes could be interconnected via NUMAlink to form expansive "superclusters." By 2004, node support had increased to accommodate up to 512 processors.

SGI divested its Alias software division in April 2004 for approximately $57 million.

In October of the same year, SGI constructed the Columbia supercomputer for NASA Ames Research Center—a cluster comprising twenty Altix systems each equipped with 512 Itanium 2 CPUs—achieving a sustained performance of 42.7 teraflops. This system briefly held the world record before IBM's Blue Gene/L surpassed it.

By July 2006, SGI announced the Altix 4700 platform featuring 1,024 processors and 4 terabytes of memory running under a single Linux image, solidifying its position as a leader in scalable high-performance computing solutions.

Product hardware lineup

Various models based on Motorola 68k and MIPS architectures were rebranded by companies such as Control Data Corporation, Tandem Computers, Prime Computer, and Siemens-Nixdorf. Additionally, SGI’s Onyx and Indy series found applications within video game development studios working on Nintendo 64 titles.

Motorola 68k-based product lines

IRIS 1000 series graphics terminals (diskless models like 1000/1200; disk-equipped versions such as 1400/1500)
IRIS 2000 series workstations (including non-Turbo and Turbo variants: 2000/2200/2300/2400/2500)
IRIS 3000 series workstations (models like 3010/3020/3030 and later versions such as 3110/3115/3120/3130)

Workstation models

Professional IRIS lineup (IRIS 4D models including 50/60/70/80/85)
Personal IRIS range (IRIS 4D versions such as 20/25/30/35)
IRIS Power Series (covering IRIS 4D models like 1x0/2x0/3x0/4x0)
IRIS Crimson (a deskside workstation/server hybrid)
IRIS Indigo line (including Indigo and Indigo R4000)
Indigo² series (models such as Indigo², Power Indigo², Indigo² R10000)
Indy workstation
O2 and O2+ workstations
Octane workstation
Octane2 workstation
Fuel entry-level workstation
Tezro high-performance workstation

Servers

Challenge S (desktop server model)
Challenge M / Power Challenge M (desktop server variants)
Challenge DM (deskside server)
Challenge L / Power Challenge / Challenge 10000 (deskside server options)
Challenge XL / Power Challenge XL (rack-mounted servers)
Origin 200 entry-level server
Origin 2000 high-performance server
Origin 300 entry-level server
Origin 350 mid-tier server
Origin 3000 high-performance server

Visualization

Onyx (available as deskside and rackmount units)
Power Onyx (deskside and rackmount configurations)
Onyx 10000 (offered as deskside and rackmount)
Onyx2 (deskside and rackmount systems)
Onyx 350 (rackmount system)
Onyx 3000 (rackmount system)
Onyx4 (rackmount system)
SkyWriter (rackmount system)

Workstations

SGI 320 Visual Workstation (runs Windows NT)
SGI 540 Visual Workstation (runs Windows NT)
SGI 230 Workstation (supports Linux and Windows NT)
SGI 330 Workstation (supports Linux and Windows NT)
SGI 550 Workstation (compatible with Linux and Windows NT)
SGI Zx10 Visual Workstation (Windows platform)
SGI Zx10 VE Visual Workstation (Windows platform)

Servers

SGI Zx10 Server (for Windows environments)
SGI 1100, 1200, 1400, and 1450 servers (compatible with Linux and Windows)
SGI Internet Servers designed for general use, e-commerce, and messaging applications (Linux-based)

Itanium-based systems

SGI 750 workstation
Altix 330 entry-level server
Altix 350 mid-range server
Altix 3000 high-end server
Altix 450 mid-range server
Altix 4000 high-performance server supporting up to 2048 CPUs
Prism deskside and rackmount solutions

Intel/AMD x86-64 systems

Altix XE210, XE240, XE310 servers
Altix XE1200, XE1300 cluster configurations
Altix ICE 8200 and ICE 8400 cluster systems
Virtu VN200 visualization nodes and VS100–VS350 workstation series

FPGA-based accelerators

RASC Application Acceleration cards

Storage systems

InfiniteStorage product line: models 10000, 6700, 4600, 4500, 4000, 350, 220, and 120
SGI Infinite Data Cluster

Storage solutions

InfiniteStorage NEXIS series: models 500, 2000, 7000, 7000-HA, and 9000
InfiniteStorage Server model 3500

Displays

SGI 1600SW widescreen video monitor

Accelerator cards

IrisVision, an early advanced PC-based 3D graphics accelerator

Other

Espressigo espresso machine developed in partnership with Gaggia