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==Irix (SGI)==
==Irix (SGI)==
By all accounts, SGIs are now obsolete.  They are more expensive and perhaps offer higher productivity, but it is not worth the money when $500 Linux box takes 1/2 hour to calculate a simulated annealing omit map.  There are some examples of software (such as [http://wiki.c2b2.columbia.edu/honiglab_public/index.php/Software:GRASP GRASP]) that you can only run on SGIs, not Linux.  O is also wicked fast on SGIs.
Irix is a flavor of UNIX and is still supported by [http://www.sgi.com/products/software/irix/ SGI].
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