A visual timeline of the rise and sale of SGI

John West at InsideHPC.com (you might remember we interviewed him for the Special Edition Podcast on SGI), has build a graphical timeline of SGI.

One thing that’s interesting to me seeing all this laid out visually is the paired events: CEOs hired/fired, companies bought and then sold for pennies on the original dollar.

Hit his site for the full-resolution image.

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This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a computer graphics programmer and news junky that's been working in the field for the last 15 years. He's responsible for visualizations generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, ytnef, mullion support in ParaView, and VizWorld.com.