Accelerating Linux

"At SGI, we're working on overlays that will run on top of Linux to allow the OS to take advantage of our hardware," reports Wayne Arvidson, global industry manager for SGI's digital media markets. "We're also taking components of our IRIX 64-bit system and making them available to the open-source community to facilitate development of 64 bit-based versions of Linux. IRIX is SGI's UNIX-based OS technology.