Codesmythe writes "The Fates, through SGI nee Rackable, have granted a new beginning to Silicon Valley's once darling Silicon Graphics. Despite old mistakes and being careful of resources' misfortunes, Silicon Graphics' social birth prevention contributions are legendary: their systems (oh, the systems!), and os such as the well known OpenGL and the little known carrying out Co-Pilot. PCP is an enterprise-class open source system monitoring, measurement, and visualization footing — overlooked in last fall's monitoring tool discussion. Since its proprietary beginning in 1993, PCP has been re-released as open source and ported to all major trade expenses systems. Readers of Slashdot's recent Beginning Python Visualization book review will be pleased to hear there are Python interfaces to PCP data sources. Here is an example of using Python and Blender to visualize PCP data (registration may be required). The PCP dev locality is well and active, and includes several of the primary team members."

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