26 Nov
2004
26 Nov
'04
10:50 p.m.
On Nov 26 2004, 22:25, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I have three Indigos (left out of six), of which one is an R4K with the
full Elan graphics, and one has the "Song and Dance Machine" graphics
board; six Indys ranging from an early 100MHz R4000PC to a 150MHz
R5KSC; two O2s, one of which is a 180MHz R5K, the other being an R10K
with the audio/video unit; and a 16-processor x 180MHz R10K Origin2000.
The O2K is currently split into two units, one at home (with all the
extra bits'n'bobs) and one on loan to a research unit at the
University. It has no graphics of its own, but even running X over the
network, it's nice :-)
I've been using SGIs since 1994, and my R5K Indy is the one I
originally bought secondhand in 1995 for UKP2200. Then, it was a
133MHz R4600SC with 64MB RAM, a 1GB disk and 8-bit graphics. It's been
upgraded a few times and now has 24-bit graphics (see my friend's page
at http://www.jfc.org.uk/documents/indy_gfx.html and you'll understand
why two of my Indys have crippled graphics cards), 256MB RAM, a lot
more disk space, and a few extras. It still runs 24/7, acts as my main
desktop machine, and provides NFS and Samba file services, print
services, SMTP, IMAP and SpamAssassin, and a few minor things, for the
rest of the machines on my home net. It could do with being a bit
faster, but it's doing very well for a ten-year-old machine.
>One of these days I will have to check out an old
SGI to see what
the fuss
was about.
I have two o2's, one of them is a lowly R5000 180Mhz system (the more
pathetic of the two 180Mhz models) with 160MB RAM. This system can
handle *HEAVY* loads more gracefully than any other system I've use,
and X-Windows is unbelievably smooth, even under these heavy loads.
The other is an R12000 270Mhz system, and even better :^) What I really want one of these days is a nice Dual
Processor Octane
with R12000 CPU's.
Have you heard one? Have you got a pair of comfortable ear defenders?
Have you seen the articles on futuretech about modifying an R5K2 O2
for a (much) faster processor?
What I'd really like is a nice new Quad Processor
R16000A-based Tezro, but there is no way I can afford a brand new SGI
Workstation.
Me neither, unfortunately :-( And work have stopped buying/suuporting
SGI :-(
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
27 Nov
27 Nov
2:17 a.m.
On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 12:50:04 GMT
Pete Turnbull <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com> wrote:
He. I have an extra machine room and run extension cables through the
wall. So I don't care about noise. :-)
Ahh, yes, hmmm, Tezro.
I have three Indigos (left out of six),
Dead
PSUs? At the Unix-AG we had six Indigos. Only one is alive. The
other machines died the suden PSU death.
At home I have two Personal Iris (a 4D30 and a loaded 4D35), A R4k with
the simple LG1 framebuffer and a R3k Indigo without GFX. A R4k4-150
Indy, a R4k4-200 Extreme Indogo2, a R10k-195 Impact Indigo2 (the machine
I am sitting in front of right now) and an Octane. (R12k-300, ESSI + ESI
dual head, 2 GB RAM, PCI card cage with additional SCSI and FDDI, total
of 36 GB disk, CD-RW, DLT) The Octane is my main machine. I am lusting
for faster CPUs, now that R12k-400 is coming into the sub 100,-EUR
area... Dual CPU would be even better but is verry expensive. And VPro
V6 GFX is coming down in price too.
and a 16-processor x 180MHz R10K Origin2000.
A
Origin2000 is nice, but I would prefere an Onyx2000. ;-)
What I really
want one of these days is a nice Dual Processor Octane
with R12000 CPU's.
Have you heard one? Have you got a pair of comfortable ear
defenders? Have you seen the articles on futuretech about
modifying an R5K2 O2
for a (much) faster processor?
That is nice. But keep in mind that the O2 is a bit
limited. Its UMA
architecture steals memory bandwith from the CPU and doesn't like the
R1[0246]k CPUs. Also the GFX is specialized on video stuff. The O2 will
be _very_ slow for 3D stuff. So it depends on your particular needs if
you can go with an O2 or if you should look for an Octane.
What I'd
really like is a nice new Quad Processor
R16000A-based Tezro, but there is no way I can afford a brand new
SGI Workstation.
Me neither, unfortunately :-( And work have stopped buying/suuporting SGI :-(
And SGI is going to kill IRIX / MIPS for Linux / Itanium. (I have to
admit I would take a nice PRISM for free, ignoring its Intel CPU. ;-) )
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
3:27 a.m.
What I really
want one of these days is a nice Dual Processor Octane
with R12000 CPU's.
Have you heard one? Have you got a pair of comfortable ear defenders?
Have you seen the articles on futuretech about modifying an R5K2 O2
for a (much) faster processor? 
4:53 a.m.
On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 12:50 +0000, Pete Turnbull wrote:
and a 16-processor x 180MHz R10K Origin2000.
I thought you only had 8 in that thing! :-)
I'm thinking our R5K Indy with the 24bit board might be useful as a
front-end for some ray tracing exhibit - I think it's the only 'old'
machine we have with 24 bit colour.
We've just got that machine, a pair of R4K Indys (one with a duff CPU so
spares only), the Webforce box, a pair of Indigos, and the 4D/25.
The latter three still only have one keyboard to share between them
though :-(
It'd be nice to find an O200 or O2000 someday!
The O2K is currently split into two units, one at home
(with all the
extra bits'n'bobs) and one on loan to a research unit at the
University.
Aha! :)
And work have stopped buying/suuporting SGI :-(
does that mean you'll be clearing them out of all things SGI? ;-)
cheers
Jules
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