14 Aug
2006
14 Aug
'06
12:34 a.m.
Don intones:
Is it possible to add a second Crestor/Elite FB? (Sorry, I haven't
poked around inside this box, yet)
Nope, UltraSPARC IIi doesn't support enough spare UPA ports. You can get a PCI PGX
card if you so desire.
Some of the bigger systems that use the full UltraSPARC II or UltraSPARC III with the
external UPA/Crossbar controller
offered more graphics ports. I think the 60 and 80 did, as well as the deskside beasts
(and I suppose you could wedge a few screens into
an Ultra Enterprise 10k if you wanted...) Even with the full UltraSPARC implementation,
many smaller machines (e.g. Ultra 2) only had one UPA expansion
slot for size reasons (and, I suppose, to protect the profit margins of the high-end
systems).