Does anyone use Silicon Graphics workstations anymore?

In My Humble Opinion
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I have a large, heavy SGI octane workstation squatting in my office that has not been turned on in at least two years. I got it for some molecular modelling work that never really took off, my understanding is that most work in this area gets done on simple PCs these days.

So, am I the owner of a white elephant workstation that basically needs to be thrown in a skip out the back? Or is this type of computer still useful to people in different industries, in which case I’ll ebay it. Thanks for any advice.

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You might get a few hundred for it on ebay. Here are the kind of specs people are interested in if you’re going to sell it.

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Sure. In fact, SGI was here working on one of their big machines just yesterday.

edit: Oh, workstations. Quite a few are still in use here, but they are getting retired on a regular basis.

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Wiki link: SGI Octane.