SGI: hinv

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.

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

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

Pix at some point yes?

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.

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.

Thanks, sounds like a great idea.

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?

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.

Great photo! SGI combat computer system!