SGI's Itanium 2-based Prism workstation
By Ryan Block 
posted Apr 26th 2005 5:34PM
posted Apr 26th 2005 5:34PM
You're going to have to do some serious kissing up to your boss to get one (unless you work in the defense sector),
but SGI's pleased as punch to debut their Intel-based Prism, one of the first Itanium 2 systems to be released in quite
awhile. The single or dual-CPU workstation can bust up to 24GB of RAM, runs Linux or Windows instead of Irix (which is
the SGI-kept Unix variant), and will run you about $8,500 to start—a number a mite bit easier to swallow than the
Orion's tongue-swallowing pricetag.
[Via
Cnet]
I would put my money into a AMD Opteron 2 Core Workstation instead
no 128GB for the windows x64 OS?
my dad works at sgi europe and he's some large person (head of emea or some crap like that) and i've seen insides of some of these workstations......they are.....mouth whetting :D
omg my dad's a dentist and he's seen the inside of wet mouths. talk about a co-inky-dink!
dust mite.
Hasn't someone already been there and done that?
SGI is attempting to hold on to customers who are itching to trade in their Onyx machines for something faster... Like a multi-cpu PC.
Discreet..Uhh I mean Autodesk will eventually switch from SGI for their Flame and Inferno packages. I wonder what these SGI boxes will offer above and beyond what you can get elsewhere?