Silicon Graphics Inc trailed Hewlett Packard Co’s 64-bit Unix announcement at the end of last week with the launch of the final version of its own fifth generation 64-bit Unix, Irix 6.5 operating system. Cellular Irix, which has been in beta testing since the beginning of this year (CI No 3,335), includes support for SGI’s CC-NUMA architecture, I/O bandwidth said to give it the ability to scale up to 128 processors, the XFS 64-bit file system and more systems management capabilities through the integration of technology from Computer Associates International Inc, Enlighten Software Inc and Hewlett Packard Co. There are two packages: Irix 6.5 Advanced Server environment for Origin and Challenger servers; and Advanced Workstation Environment for the O2, Octane, Onyx, Indy and Indigo workstation lines. The system is available from next month.
