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I'm Drew Breunig and I obsess about technology, media, language, and culture. I live in New York, studied anthropology, and work in advertising technology.

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SGI just released its first product since declaring bankruptcy. The Octane III isn’t groundbreaking, but the niche it fills is an interesting one. For $7-10k, garage physicists, engineers, and animators can get a multicore, rackmounted system. That’s not a bad deal and it highlights a rather interesting direction SGI could go. I’m pulling for SGI to emulate Netscape/Firefox: go open-source, release their patents and resurface as a nonprofit.

SGI just released its first product since declaring bankruptcy. The Octane III isn’t groundbreaking, but the niche it fills is an interesting one. For $7-10k, garage physicists, engineers, and animators can get a multicore, rackmounted system. That’s not a bad deal and it highlights a rather interesting direction SGI could go.

I’m pulling for SGI to emulate Netscape/Firefox: go open-source, release their patents and resurface as a nonprofit.