Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Hey all--I have a program called MCNP (specifically, MCNP4C2) that I am attempting to install. If anyone has installed this program on an IRIX machine, please post! (It stands for Monte-Carlo ...

For the Emmy award-winning movie Titanic the production studio Digital Domain used Linux on a network of more than a hundred DEC Alpha machines to render the special effects. However, they used 350 ...

SGI yesterday unveiled new software that will make it possible to view and manipulate complex 3-D images generated by the world's most powerful graphics supercomputers on ordinary PCs, notebooks and ...

Customers say The SCO Group’s threat against SGI to terminate its license to Unix System V will have little if any effect on their businesses. Customers say The SCO Group’s threat against SGI to ...

Irix, the version of Unix supplied by technical computing specialist SGI, has been certified to run the Defense Department's Common Operating Environment (COE), the Mountain View, Calif.-based company ...