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Octane2, 2x600MHz R14K, 4Gig ram, V12+DCD/V10 (updated 21/12/2015) - Page 1

Jack Luminous
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Sorry, no pics yet, I was too busy making the damn thing work.... Will add later !

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# hinv -vm
Location: /hw/node
PM20600MHZ Board: barcode MME908     part 030-1778-001 rev  C
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15
IP30 Board: barcode LKD174     part 030-1467-001 rev  D
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15/pci/2
PWR.SPPLY.ER Board: barcode AAE1330738 part 060-0035-003 rev  A
FP1 Board: barcode MKE459     part 030-0891-003 rev  J
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/11
ODY128VERSIONB Board: barcode MDF684     part 030-1611-001 rev  C
2 600 MHZ IP30 Processors
Heart ASIC: Revision F
CPU: MIPS R14000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.4
FPU: MIPS R14010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
Main memory size: 2048 Mbytes
Xbow ASIC: Revision 1.4
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2
IOC3 parallel port: plp1
Graphics board: V12
Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, pci 2
Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 12.0, number 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0003) PCI slot 2
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 0
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0005) PCI slot 3
Dual Channel Display


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# /usr/gfx/gfxinfo -vv
Graphics board 0 is "ODYSSEY" graphics.
Managed (":0.0") 1600x1024
BUZZ version B.1
PB&J version 1
128MB memory
Banks: 4, CAS latency: 3
Monitor 0 type: Unknown
Dual Channel Display option
Monitor 1 type: Unknown         Monitor 2 type: Unknown
Input Sync: Voltage - Video Level; Source - Internal; Genlocked - False
Channel 0:
Origin = (0,0)
Video Output: 1600 pixels, 1024 lines, 60.00Hz (VPro_1600x1024_60-Analog_MLA)
Video Format Flags:  (none)
Sync Disabled
Using Gamma Map 0
Monitor Type:  unknown
Gain (all color components) - 0.000000 ; range [1,10]
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vishnu
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Very nice machine! Quite like mine. I've always thought it odd that gfxinfo doesn't post the graphics board number for the V series. Presumably your DCD works? Mine doesn't work for crap, may I ask what monitors you're using?
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Wrote the following at March 8, 2014, 11:10 a.m...
now that's a nice machine, doesn't get much better than this.
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Jack Luminous
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vishnu wrote: Very nice machine! Quite like mine. I've always thought it odd that gfxinfo doesn't post the graphics board number for the V series. Presumably your DCD works? Mine doesn't work for crap, may I ask what monitors you're using?


Yes the DCD works with a single monitor. I'm using a 1600SW+Multilink Adapter. Not easy to make it work but it worked in the end. See viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16728430&start=15 for the gory details involving butchering a poor DVI-D cable.

mia wrote: now that's a nice machine, doesn't get much better than this.


I want to put 8 gigs in it. But it' too costly for now. Anyway FF3 is working much better than I expected. Quite fast and no crash yet.
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I think 8GB is nice, but 2GB is enough for my needs (mipspro mostly). My main workstation has 2GB, and while I have the 6 other sticks in my drawer, I never had a need for them, I keep thinking I might need them someday, but realistically, I don't think so. There's only one application I'm compiling that requires a little over 1.5GB at compil time, most of the rest can be done around the 1GB bar. I think 2GB is plenty, but I don't want to discourage you from adding more of course, I just say, the gain is usually marginal unless you really have an application that needs it (in which case, name it, I'm curious to know which).

I thought about parallelizing the compilation further of course, and I did that, but I've noticed the gain is not worth the effort, it's cpu bound anyway.
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hamei
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mia wrote: I don't want to discourage you from adding more of course, I just say, the gain is usually marginal unless you really have an application that needs it (in which case, name it, I'm curious to know which).

I've never seen over about 2 gigs in use on mine, either, but Unixmuseum used to run some CFD on his, and that used all 8. In fact, one reason he kept the Octane in service was that none of the peecees in his office could manage that much memory.

vishnu wrote: Presumably your DCD works? Mine doesn't ...

Oi, probably a defective dcd, vish. Better send it over here for testing :D
Jack Luminous
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Wrote the following at March 12, 2014, 1:33 a.m...
Updated with dual channel SGI fibre XIO card + Discreet D9 Stone

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# hinv -vm
Location: /hw/node
PM20600MHZ Board: barcode MME908     part 030-1778-001 rev  C
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15
IP30 Board: barcode LKD174     part 030-1467-001 rev  D
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15/pci/2
PWR.SPPLY.ER Board: barcode AAE1330738 part 060-0035-003 rev  A
FP1 Board: barcode MKE459     part 030-0891-003 rev  J
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/11
ODY128VERSIONB Board: barcode MDF684     part 030-1611-001 rev  C
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/10
FIBRE_CHANNEL Board: barcode KXA033     part 030-0927-003 rev  E
2 600 MHZ IP30 Processors
Heart ASIC: Revision F
CPU: MIPS R14000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.4
FPU: MIPS R14010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
Main memory size: 2048 Mbytes
Xbow ASIC: Revision 1.4
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
Integral SCSI controller 4: Version Fibre Channel AIC-1160, revision 4
Disk drive: unit 0 on SCSI controller 4 (unit 0)
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 4 (unit 1)
Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 4 (unit 2)
Disk drive: unit 3 on SCSI controller 4 (unit 3)
Disk drive: unit 4 on SCSI controller 4 (unit 4)
Disk drive: unit 5 on SCSI controller 4 (unit 5)
Disk drive: unit 6 on SCSI controller 4 (unit 6)
Integral SCSI controller 3: Version Fibre Channel AIC-1160, revision 4
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2
IOC3 parallel port: plp1
Graphics board: V12
Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, pci 2
Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 12.0, number 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0003) PCI slot 2
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 0
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0005) PCI slot 3
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x9004, device 0x1160) PCI slot 0
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x9004, device 0x1160) PCI slot 1
Dual Channel Display
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Geoman
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Wrote the following at March 12, 2014, 3 a.m...
WOW :shock:

I envy you! that's a beautiful machine!

We want pics of the whole ensemble (Octane2 + 1600sw + Stone)! ;-)
:Octane2: 2xR12000 400MHz, 4GB RAM, V12
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Jack Luminous
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Thanks ! Luckily, it has been pretty painless to set up until now. One of my goals with it is to buy some used bigger FC hdds from ebay and create a big and fast file server with the thing. I still need to buy a cheap PCI gigabit ethernet card to put in the PCI cage (already have the cage but it is not plugged in yet).

The only drawback of the whole system is the noise of the D9 Stone... Crazy !!! I didn't fire it up in 3 years or so and totally forgot the madness. When I pushed the on button this morning after set up, it felt like an airplane taking off in my basement. Can't even hear the Octane next to it ! :D

I don't understand why it needs so much cooling... I'm gonna try to replace the fans with modern ones and slow them down with resistors... Pics coming in the next few days... 8-)
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recondas
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Wrote the following at March 12, 2014, 4:33 a.m...
Jack Luminous wrote: Yes the DCD works with a single monitor. I'm using a 1600SW+Multilink Adapter.
If you don't mind pin-plucking another DVI cable (and just happen to have a second 1600SW/MLA) you can always try for a 2@ monitor set up.

vishnu wrote: Presumably your DCD works? Mine doesn't work for crap
Thought we figured out that was self-inflicted . ;)
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jan-jaap
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The D9 stone is the cube shaped metal box, right? Those go back to the 1st generations of 10K disks etc, and they ran *hot*. Put a dozen together in a shoebox and you need a lot of airflow.

Modern disks run much cooler, so you can reduce cooling as well. I have one of these which was modded with an ATX PSU -- probably because the original PSU died. Then the ATX PSU died as well :(
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Jack Luminous
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recondas wrote: If you don't mind pin-plucking another DVI cable (and just happen to have a second 1600SW/MLA) you can always try for a 2@ monitor set up.


I wouldn't mind pin-plucking another DVI cable and would love to try a 2@ monitor set-up. It also happens that I have a second 1600SW to go with my O2 but I only have one MLA so it will have to wait for some more SGI play-money availability. I already got past the intended budget in the last month to get everything up and running as I wanted.

jan-jaap wrote: The D9 stone is the cube shaped metal box, right? Those go back to the 1st generations of 10K disks etc, and they ran *hot*. Put a dozen together in a shoebox and you need a lot of airflow.

Modern disks run much cooler, so you can reduce cooling as well. I have one of these which was modded with an ATX PSU -- probably because the original PSU died. Then the ATX PSU died as well :(


Yes it's the cube shaped industrial metal looking thing. What hdd would you advise to use ? I see a lot of cheap used 300gb FC hdd on the bay or even 600gb sometimes...
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A very nice machine indeed, and still pretty fast compared to some of its more modern cousins.
I recently upgraded one of mine to a dual R14k600 and still looking for a DCD option... though I'm
still pretty happy with my Sgi branded 21inch Sony CRTs
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Jack Luminous
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Yes, it's in a basement, under metallic stairs. And I'm not much of a photographer LOL


Image
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It has a home ;-)

Nice setup of course! Machine+TFT+Mouse+Keyboard+Speaker = all SGI :-D
:Octane2: 2xR12000 400MHz, 4GB RAM, V12
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Jack Luminous
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Latest upgrade : dual VPRO carrier installed with V12+V10 and also QL2310 optical FC-AL card in PCI cage. The dual head thing worked right away without any further tinkering !
V12 drives a 1600SW and V10 a 24'' CRT.

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Cobalt 19# hinv -v
2 600 MHZ IP30 Processors
Heart ASIC: Revision F
CPU: MIPS R14000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.4
FPU: MIPS R14010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
Main memory size: 4096 Mbytes
Xbow ASIC: Revision 1.4
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
CDROM: unit 2 on SCSI controller 1
Integral SCSI controller 2: Version Fibre Channel QL2310, 33 MHz PCI
Disk drive: unit 0 on SCSI controller 2 (unit 0)
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 2 (unit 1)
Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 2 (unit 2)
Disk drive: unit 3 on SCSI controller 2 (unit 3)
Disk drive: unit 4 on SCSI controller 2 (unit 4)
Disk drive: unit 5 on SCSI controller 2 (unit 5)
Disk drive: unit 6 on SCSI controller 2 (unit 6)
Disk drive: unit 7 on SCSI controller 2 (unit 7)
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2
IOC3 parallel port: plp1
Graphics board: V12
Graphics board: V10
Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, pci 2
Gigabit Ethernet: eg1, PCI slot 2, firmware version 12.4.10
Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 12.0, number 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0003) PCI slot 2
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 0
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0005) PCI slot 3
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x2300) PCI slot 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0009) PCI slot 2
Dual Channel Display


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Cobalt 58# /usr/gfx/gfxinfo
Graphics board 0 is "ODYSSEY" graphics.
Managed (":0.0") 1600x1024
BUZZ version B.1
PB&J version 1
128MB memory
Banks: 4, CAS latency: 3
Compositor port 0 attached to channel 0 nic 0x1004a72c
Monitor 0 type: Unknown
Dual Channel Display option
Monitor 1 type: DRB 4128        Monitor 2 type: Unknown
Channel 0:
Origin = (0,0)
Video Output: 1600 pixels, 1024 lines, 60.00Hz
(vpro_1600x1024_60-analog_mla)
Graphics board 1 is "ODYSSEY" graphics.
Managed (":0.1") 1920x1200
BUZZ version B.1
PB&J version 1
32MB memory
Banks: 2, CAS latency: 3
Monitor 0 type: Unknown
Channel 0:
Origin = (0,0)
Video Output: 1920 pixels, 1080 lines, 72.00Hz (1920x1080_72)
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Nice.. are you using a modified (pins removed) DVi cable for the 1600SW to MLA?
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Jack Luminous
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uunix wrote: Nice.. are you using a modified (pins removed) DVi cable for the 1600SW to MLA?


No more special cable since I'm now using a Dr Bott SGI Saver thing instead of the SGI MLA. It works better, sync faster and doesn't need any special cable.
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Jack Luminous wrote:
uunix wrote: Nice.. are you using a modified (pins removed) DVi cable for the 1600SW to MLA?


No more special cable since I'm now using a Dr Bott SGI Saver thing instead of the SGI MLA. It works better, sync faster and doesn't need any special cable.

ah.. possible why I had issues, I was using the SGi MLA with a modified cable, which did work, but kept loosing settings once a week.
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ivelegacy
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Jack Luminous wrote: Latest upgrade : dual VPRO carrier installed with V12+V10


why dual GFX ? specific application need ?
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