Going forward, the new SGI will use the SGI name as a brand for its legacy SGI hardware while using "Rackable" as its brand name for x64 server-based clustering products, Skaff said. For now ...

For SGI it was the surge in commodity 3D graphics cards in the 1990s alongside affordable (and cluster-capable; insert Beowulf cluster jokes here) server hardware that posed a major problem.