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===Final bankruptcy and acquisition by Rackable Systems=== In December 2008, SGI received a delisting notification from [[NASDAQ]], as its market value had been below the minimum $35 million requirement for 10 consecutive trading days, and also did not meet NASDAQ's alternative requirements of a minimum stockholders' equity of $2.5 million or annual net income from continuing operations of $500,000 or more.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2008/december/nasdaq.html |title=Silicon Graphics, Inc. Receives NASDAQ Delisting Notification|date=December 8, 2008 |publisher=Silicon Graphics |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110607121636/http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2008/december/nasdaq.html |archive-date = June 7, 2011 |access-date = April 27, 2018 }}</ref> On April 1, 2009, SGI filed for Chapter 11 again, and announced that it would sell substantially all of its assets to [[Rackable Systems]] for $25 million.<ref>{{cite press release|url = http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2009/april/rackable.html|title = Rackable Systems Announces Agreement to Acquire Silicon Graphics Inc.|access-date = April 1, 2009|date = April 1, 2009|publisher = Silicon Graphics}}</ref> The sale, ultimately for $42.5 million, was finalized on May 11, 2009; at the same time, Rackable announced their adoption of "Silicon Graphics International" as their global name and brand.<ref>{{cite press release|url = http://www.rackable.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?prid=693|title = Rackable Systems Completes Acquisition of Silicon Graphics Assets|access-date = May 11, 2009|date = May 11, 2009|publisher = [[Rackable Systems]]|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090511040251/http://www.rackable.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?prid=693|archive-date = May 11, 2009|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|url = http://www.rackable.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?prid=699|title = Rackable Systems Receives Court Approval to Purchase Silicon Graphics Assets|access-date = May 2, 2009|date = April 30, 2009|publisher = [[Rackable Systems]]|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090514034511/http://www.rackable.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?prid=699|archive-date = May 14, 2009|url-status = dead}}</ref> The Bankruptcy Court scheduled continuing proceedings and hearings for June 3 and 24, 2009, and July 22, 2009.<ref name="Donlin Recano-Docket-2009-05-11">{{cite news| title = Silicon Graphics, Inc., et al.| url = http://www.donlinrecano.com/cases/caseinfo.aspx?cl=sgi| access-date = May 11, 2009| publisher = Donlin Recano & Company}}{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (selected items from the court docket, Case # 09-11701, United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, Judge Martin Glenn)</ref><ref>{{cite news| title = The SGI bankruptcy proceeding: do your own deep dive into the original court documents| url = http://insidehpc.com/2009/05/05/the-sgi-bankruptcy-proceeding-do-your-own-deep-dive-into-the-original-court-documents/| first = John| last = West| work = Inside HPC| date = May 5, 2009| access-date = May 12, 2009}}</ref>{{update after|2009|07|22}} After the Rackable acquisition, ''Vizworld'' magazine published [http://www.vizworld.com/tag/sgi-bts// a series of six articles that chronicle the downfall of SGI.] [[Hewlett Packard Enterprise]] acquired Silicon Graphics International in November 2016, which allowed HPE to place the SGI [[Pleiades (supercomputer)|Pleiades]], a [[TOP500]] supercomputer at NASA Ames Research Center, in its portfolio.<ref name="HPE-SGI">{{cite press release | url = https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/news-archive/press-release/2016/08/1272793-hewlett-packard-enterprise-to-acquire-sgi-to-extend-leadership-in-high-growth-big-data-analytics-and-high-performance-computing.html | title = Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Acquire SGI to Extend Leadership in High-Growth Big Data Analytics and High-Performance Computing | accessdate = 2016-08-11 | date = 2024-09-03 | publisher = Hewlett Packard Enterprise | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160911162616/https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/news-archive/press-release/2016/08/1272793-hewlett-packard-enterprise-to-acquire-sgi-to-extend-leadership-in-high-growth-big-data-analytics-and-high-performance-computing.html | archivedate = 2016-09-11}}</ref><ref name="HPE-SGI-done">{{cite press release | url = https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/news-archive/press-release/2016/11/Hewlett-Packard-Enterprise-Completes-Acquisition-of-SGI.html | title = Hewlett Packard Enterprise Completes Acquisition of SGI | accessdate = 2016-11-01 | date = 2024-09-03 | publisher = Hewlett Packard Enterprise | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20161103234625/https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/news-archive/press-release/2016/11/Hewlett-Packard-Enterprise-Completes-Acquisition-of-SGI.html | archivedate = 2016-11-03}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | author = Iain Thomson | title = OMG: HPE gobbles SGI for HPC. WTF? | url = https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/11/hpe_buys_sgi/ | work = [[The Register]] | date = 2016-08-11 | accessdate = 2024-09-03}}</ref><ref name="TOP500 2019">{{cite web|url=http://top500.org/system/177259|title=Pleiades - SGI ICE X, Intel Xeon E5-2670/E5-2680v2/E5-2680v3/E5-2680v4 2.6/2.8/2.5/2.4 GHz, Infiniband FDR |publisher=Top 500, the list|accessdate=March 19, 2020}}</ref>
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