By Johna Till Johnson, President & Sr. Founding Partner, Nemertes Research Inc.

May 12th, 2006

The recent Chapter 11 filing by Silicon Graphics (formerly NYSE: SGI, delisted in November 2005) highlights the end of a period in high-performance computing that stressed expensive, proprietary achitectures rather than low-cost machines running off-the-shelf software.

Silicon Graphics was created in 1981 to accelerate graphics displays for modeling and graphics applications, and expanded to become a general-purpose, high-performance computing engine for a wide range of scientific, engineering and modeling applications.

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