Nekonomicon - Origin 350 8x 700 MHz (Onyx InfinitePerformance)

japes
Donor
From Lynnwood, WA
Who joined Nov. 8, 2007, 4:35 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 21, 2015, 10:03 p.m...

EDIT: Check below - I teamed this Origin 350 with one from mopar5150 so now it's two nodes and identifies as an Onyx InfinitePerformance.

Picked up TeamBlackFox's Origin 350 on the 'bay.

It needed a little love. I only added enough memory to power on, I'll have 4 GB once I have a chance to work inside it again. I need to replace the "Timekeeping RAM" still. At some point the left rack mount bracket got bent, hopefully I can straighten it out. The plastics were clean and it was remarkably clean inside. I didn't realize single PSU was an option - the connector cables are even missing. Since it was so clean inside I think it might not have run a lot, and maybe that's why the battery on the DS1742W was already dead.

I connected it to a L2 controller dropped in some memory and it fired up once I set the serial number. Might have to think about taking one of my Origin 3000 R-Bricks and see if it'll work to build a 12 cpu Origin 350 with the 8-cpu Origin 350 I picked up back in August.

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   # hinv -vm
   

   Location: /hw/module/001c01/node
   

   IP53_4CPU Board: barcode NBB912     part 030-1868-001 rev -C
   

   Location: /hw/module/001c01/IXbrick/xtalk/15
   

   2U_INT_53 Board: barcode NAL647     part 030-1809-003 rev -B
   

   Location: /hw/module/001c01/IXbrick/xtalk/15/pci-x/0/1/ioc4
   

   IO9 Board: barcode NAM418     part 030-1771-005 rev -A
   

   4 700 MHZ IP35 Processors
   

   CPU: MIPS R16000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.1
   

   FPU: MIPS R16010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 2.1
   

   CPU 0 at Module 001c01/Slot 0/Slice A: 700 Mhz MIPS R16000 Processor Chip (enabled)
   

   Processor revision: 2.1. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 350 Mhz  Tap 0xc
   

   CPU 1 at Module 001c01/Slot 0/Slice B: 700 Mhz MIPS R16000 Processor Chip (enabled)
   

   Processor revision: 2.1. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 350 Mhz  Tap 0xc
   

   CPU 2 at Module 001c01/Slot 0/Slice C: 700 Mhz MIPS R16000 Processor Chip (enabled)
   

   Processor revision: 2.1. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 350 Mhz  Tap 0xc
   

   CPU 3 at Module 001c01/Slot 0/Slice D: 700 Mhz MIPS R16000 Processor Chip (enabled)
   

   Processor revision: 2.1. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 350 Mhz  Tap 0xc
   

   Main memory size: 1024 Mbytes
   

   Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
   

   Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
   

   Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 4 Mbytes
   

   Memory at Module 001c01/Slot 0: 1024 MB (enabled)
   

   Bank 0 contains 512 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
   

   Bank 1 contains 512 MB (Standard) DIMMS (enabled)
   

   Integral SCSI controller 2: Version IDE (ATA/ATAPI) IOC4
   

   CDROM: unit 0 on SCSI controller 2
   

   Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL12160, low voltage differential
   

   Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
   

   Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL12160, low voltage differential
   

   IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty3
   

   IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty4
   

   IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty5
   

   IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty6
   

   Integral Gigabit Ethernet: tg0, module 001c01, PCI bus 1 slot 4
   

   PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x100a) PCI slot 1
   

   PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1216) PCI slot 3
   

   PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x14e4, device 0x1645) PCI slot 4
   

   IOC4 firmware revision 79
   

   IOC3/IOC4 external interrupts: 1
   

   HUB in Module 001c01/Slot 0: Revision 2 Speed 200.00 Mhz (enabled)
   

   IP35prom in Module 001c01/Slot n0: Revision 6.210

TeamBlackFox
From Richmond, Virginia
Who joined Jan. 30, 2014, 5:01 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 21, 2015, 10:15 p.m...

Glad you got it working. I needed the space but intend to upgrade my O300s to O350s eventually.

:fuel: 900MHz 4GB

vishnu
Donor
From Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
Who joined March 18, 2007, 3:25 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 22, 2015, 10:43 a.m...

Nice! Wouldn't mind picking up a handful of those myself someday... :lol:

Pix at some point yes?

Project:
Temporarily lost at sea...
Plan:
World domination! Or something...
:Tezro:

japes
Donor
From Lynnwood, WA
Who joined Nov. 8, 2007, 4:35 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 18, 2016, 12:01 a.m...

I picked up a second Origin 350 from mopar5150 to go with this so it's now an Onyx InfinitePerformance --- woohoo, V10.

The hinv is forthcoming, and may be dynamic for a bit. I picked up another O350 and might double up the powersupplies. Probably changing the CPU boards around a little, adding network cards, etc. I don't have it setup right now to get the current hinv, but I'll start with a photo from earlier today "out in the field". Not quite as compact as Helen Hunt's "laptop" in Twister , but...what 30x+ performance and memory?

While in these beasts I found out the board with additional serial ports and the mouse/keyboard ports looks to require the entire system be disassembled. I have mouse/keyboard + 3 serial ports on the second node instead of the primary since I didn't want to tear apart two entire systems I am a little sad about that, perhaps when I'm feeling more adventurist perhaps I'll move mopar's custom vPro over.

mopar5150
From Palm Springs, CA
Who joined April 24, 2012, 6:02 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 18, 2016, 1:46 p.m...

Hey Japes,
I have another one of the PS/2 com port boards and yes it does require a teardown. You can have it for shipping costs if you want it.

Only real pain is getting the riser board off.

If the thing isn't on fire it's a software problem.

:Tezro:

japes
Donor
From Lynnwood, WA
Who joined Nov. 8, 2007, 4:35 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 19, 2016, 4:40 p.m...

Thanks, sounds like a great idea.

ivelegacy
From Italy
Who joined Jan. 4, 2015, 5:12 a.m.

Wrote the following at April 20, 2016, 2:14 a.m...

the picture above, a super computer on the grass, interesting
what about the power supply?

p.s.
which Apps are you going to launch?
What are you going to do with that?

bye.

japes
Donor
From Lynnwood, WA
Who joined Nov. 8, 2007, 4:35 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 20, 2016, 4:41 p.m...

Not sure what you mean about the power supply. There's an APC rack PDU above the top node. Each machine is connected, along with the monitor. The cord on the left ran off to an extension cord that was plugged in behind the camera.

I was playing a track from the Moby CD "Play" in the first node, but no speakers were attached to hear it.

Full disclosure this was my friend's front yard, the mosquitos were eating us alive as it was about an hour before sunset. I was going to take this at a park. By the way that's a heavy case with two nodes...and think I was considering putting a router in the back.

mopar5150
From Palm Springs, CA
Who joined April 24, 2012, 6:02 p.m.

Wrote the following at April 20, 2016, 6:41 p.m...

Great photo! SGI combat computer system!

If the thing isn't on fire it's a software problem.

:Tezro:

SGI: hinv

Origin 350 8x 700 MHz (Onyx InfinitePerformance)