SGI: Computer Graphics

Well I ended up solving the problem (more circumvent it) by following the information
in this link:

http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/educatio ... /ch04.html

I just used -no_prelink -ptused, and everything else fell in place.

I will put an update once 2.45 is officially released.

Thanks!

Looking forward to the release
Thanks for keeping Blender alive on Irix, Jarndyce!

Thanks Charles,

Looking forward to the new 2.45 release.
And many thanks for your effort in keeping this juwel available for us IRIX geeks

Cheers,
Bob

Ran across an interesting, if not slightly dated <circa 2001>, comparison between an Onyx2 with IR graphics and nVidia GEforce2, Quadro2MXR, and TNT graphics boards . The tests were done at the Electronic Visualization Lab < EVL > of the University of Illinois at Chicago .


Browsing around that site lead to another point of interest , EVL invented the CAVE virtual reality theater in 1992 , a technology sometimes powered by SGI hardware. I'm not sure how much SGI hardware is still in use there, but I did find a student guide on the use of the editing suite with mention of using Orion/Sirius and VCP .

Any current/former students in the house who could offer any insights or comments?

Blender 2.45 has been released!

http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/

Let me know if anyone find any errors.

Thanks,

Woo!. I noticed last night though, playing with 2.44 that I downloaded (haven't tried compiling it myself) that on my origin 2400, if I start it using 8 threads, when the job first starts, it uses 8 processors, but after the first tile of the matrix finishes, that processor never gets another job, so the majority of the render runs with only 7 processors. Is this a known issue or just normal (but odd, IMHO) behavior?

SGI still does new CAVE installations, even today.

Very interesting, I like that benchmark, would like to know if there is something bit newer Fuel or Terzo vs. GF FX, 6800, etc. :->

When time permits I'll run a IR4 vs Quadro FX 5600. Mostly numbers problably won't favor the IR4, but there still might be a few surprises!

SGI just finished installing a CAVE for us this past month.

If it's permissible, I'd be interested to read what components are in a recent SGI Cave and how they're configured. While I'm asking, most of the photos you see of a cave are of the display(s) - it'd be nice to see some of the underlying hardware. There's a photos <and a brief slideshow> at EVL, but you really can't see very much detail.

Ran across a few more cave links including some that might interest gamers. Paul Rajlich, a research programmer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications <NCSA> ported a virtual-reality version of Quake II to Cave powered by a twelve processor, four-pipe Onyx2.

Here's an interview with Paul Rajlich on Gamespot.com , and some additional info by Rajlich hosted on NCSA's site.