SGI: hinv

Tezro Quad-R16K/1GHz (16MB L2), 4GB RAM, 36GB 10K system, 48 x 146GB 15K JBOD RAID, 4 x QLA12160/66 PCI64,
DM3 card (not in hinv as drivers not installed). Normally connected to a DM5/VBOB, but again not shown here. The system
originally had two QLA2342s, RAD Audio, dual-port Gbit NIC and dual-port serial card, but I've removed all these.




I have a second similar system (same CPU/gfx/RAM) that still has the original other cards.

Ian.

Do you have any particular use for it?

This is what I hope to turn my O350/Onyx system into - all I'm missing is my NUMALink cable (on the way), a V12 (to replace my V10), and a DM3 (I probably won't end up getting one, as I don't have much use, but...) and I've got it :p

@indyman007 - would probably be used as a Discreet system in "the real world" - there's not much else that uses a DM3 and that much power.

Wow, Nice system Ian.

/Jonas

bri3d wrote: This is what I hope to turn my O350/Onyx system into - all I'm missing is my NUMALink cable (on the way), a V12 (to replace my V10), and a DM3

DM3 is the SDStationOEM ?

Ian, since you pulled the serial card, could you look and see what UART's it has ? Maybe 16550's ?

hamei wrote: DM3 is the SDStationOEM ?

Pretty sure that was DM6 - the DM3 is XIO, not PCI. There was some speculation that DM3 might also be a DVE product but as far as I know only SGI ever sold XIO cards, so I doubt they ever directly sold any.

that's it.
what else to say?

indyman007 writes:
> Do you have any particular use for it?

There are things I can use it for (movie conversion tasks), but neither system is for keeps. I bought them stricly as an
investment, because the ISA interest rates are now so useless. They were expensive (thousands); I couldn't justify
spending so much on something like this for personal use, not at present. My bank savings balance would have to
have at least one extra digit on the end for that to be viable.

A US movie company is interested in one of them, perhaps later in the summer, not sure yet.

Oh, I have a quad-700 system aswell.


bri3d writes:
> This is what I hope to turn my O350/Onyx system into - ...

Is it still a dual-1GHz V10 atm?


> replace my V10), and a DM3 (I probably won't end up getting one, as I don't have much use, but...) and I've got it :p

I got one from Harry, for the quad-700 system I have. He probably has more.


> @indyman007 - would probably be used as a Discreet system in "the real world" - there's not much else that uses
> a DM3 and that much power.

Correct, they were all Smoke systems. The unit pictured at the start of this thread still has a sticker on the front panel,
behind the front flap, that says, "SMOKE2". Naturally, the system disks were wiped though. Each system came with
either an original IR36 or IR73 Stone FC array, ie. a 15-bay FC chassis filled with either 36GB or 73GB FC drives
containing proper Discreet firmware.


sgtprobe writes:
> Wow, Nice system Ian.

Thanks!

I've added a few benchmark results for the system, but have a few more to do.


hamei writes:
> Ian, since you pulled the serial card, could you look and see what
> UART's it has ? Maybe 16550's ?

The board (PN 030-1657-003, dated 2000) has just four main ASICs:



There are two more much smaller 14-pin ASICs, but the writing on them is too small to discern as I type this.

I have a second serial card, marked SGI Imagesync, PN 030-1723-001. It has a completely different layout, the main
ASIC being a XILINX SPARTAN XCS40XL (PQ208AKP0029, D1106126A).

While I think of it...

The dual-port Gbit NIC in the systems is SGI PN 9210292, Tigon3 I think (Broadcom ASIC), marked Silicom Ltd
Connectivity Solutions, model number PXG2-SGI.

The RAD Audio card is PN 030-1649-001, LSI ASIC L2A0470 RAD1 REV B.

Hope this helps!


Btw, does anyone know if Blender 2.48 can do renders using networked systems? If so, is it easy to setup? I was
wondering how hard it would be to run my benchmark using all three Tezros, see what happens.

Ian.

I'll be looking to get a set up like that next..........unless I die first bummer

btw the DM3 I have is PN: 030-1927-003 Rev B and it's PCI not XIO

And will you stop hitting me in the back of the head already!

Richtom1 writes:
> I'll be looking to get a set up like that next..........unless I die first bummer

In that case, take all possible measures to live longer.


> btw the DM3 I have is PN: 030-1927-003 Rev B and it's PCI not XIO

Ah, no, it's not a PCI card. Check a DM3 installed in a Tezro, it does not plug into a PCI slot.

The only PCI SGI video board I know of is the DM6, a card Discreet never officially supported.

Ian.

hamei wrote: Ian, since you pulled the serial card, could you look and see what UART's it has ? Maybe 16550's ?

Nothing that mundane

I believe there's an IOC3 on it, the IO chip from the IO6 of an O2k. The keyboard/mouse/network ports aren't wired. Is that wasteful? You betcha ... But at least they didn't need to write a new driver.

jan-jaap wrote: Nothing that mundane

I believe there's an IOC3 on it, the IO chip from the IO6 of an O2k. The keyboard/mouse/network ports aren't wired. Is that wasteful? You betcha ... But at least they didn't need to write a new driver.

But it does have a 16550 UART chip as well:

mapesdhs wrote:

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The datasheet for this one says it has dual 16550 UARTs + parallel port.

Perhaps the IOC3 chip is just a bridge.

Just a thought about the DM3...

It fits into the same type of double-socket that the V12 is plugged into (definitely XIO, or rather XIO2 I suppose) Thus, with a
bit of metal hacking of the rear chassis plate, could one fit two V12s into a Tezro tower unit? This would mean no DM3 though.

Wild thought: if one knew how, maybe the spare XIO port could be linked to the same port in a different Tezro, make an 8-CPU
system. Hmm, probably not.

Funny thing - before Tezro launched, some of the comments I heard from SGI people led me to infer that the system would
indeed be linkable in this way, but alas that didn't happen. Pity, would've been cool.

Ian.

mapesdhs wrote: Funny thing - before Tezro launched, some of the comments I heard from SGI people led me to infer that the system would indeed be linkable in this way, but alas that didn't happen. Pity, would've been cool.

I believe it did happen - if you purchased a Tezro rack system you could link <at least> two.

Though interestingly enough, the rear view illustration in the Tezro Rack Mounted Workstation User's Guide doesn't label the XIO port , or specifically mention it in the accompanying text.

While the nearly identical illustration from the Onyx 350 Visualization System User's Guide does.

An implicit omission to prevent drawing sales from the more expensive Onyx 350 line?

...where in Edinburgh do you live ... any summer holidays planned ... do you have an alarm system on your house...

On a serious note - an amazing system, but why only 4Gb RAM in such an otherwise highly spec'ed machine?