17 Dec
2007
17 Dec
'07
7:29 a.m.
In article <47668201.5020603 at gmail.com>,
Jules Richardson <jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> writes:
Interesting stuff. Weta Digital had a pretty
impressive room full of O2k
hardware rendering the Lord of the Rings effects back around 2001. I'm not
sure if they're even still using SGI, but the rows of double-height O2k
cabinets looked pretty stunning back then - it'd be interesting to find out
what their exact config was.
Each double height rack holds two system modules. Each system module
can hold 4 node boards. Each node board has 2 CPUs (initially R10k @
195 MHz, but later R12k at 300 MHz). Each node also has a chunk of
system memory, up to 4 GB. The memory is shared between all the CPUs
through a cross-bar based interconnection fabric that is scalable with
the CPUs, i.e. there is no shared bus. Its pretty interesting!
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