SGI: Hardware

Oh, those adapters are pricy. The Fuel, Tezro, Octane and the Onyx and Origin 2 and up do have PCI attachments from which you could attach a SAS card to, and thereby use SAS or SATA. Not for a boot drive though, as far as I know. Someone else probably knows more.

Thanks again.
I hope I am not bugging too much.

You're not! We're all happy to have a new user here. Without people like you, the hobby will cease to exist.

Okay, are dual processors for the Octane and O2 hard to get?

Does Elan graphics have texture memory?
*I heard it was good with 3D but textures slowed it down.

For Octane you can find dual CPU systems pretty easily, as well as CPUs. The O2 is single CPU only.

As for the Elan, I dunno. Someone else will be able to tell you.

Elan is old, not sure how good it would be with textures. O2's are good with textures (they use their RAM as texture memory).
IMPACT is available with optional texture memory (TRAMS) - you find IMPACT graphics in late Indigo2 models and Octane systems (si/se,ssi/sse,mxi/mxe).
ODYSSEY graphics come with a lot more memory depending on model (V6 -32MB,V8 -128MB, V10 -32MB, V12 -128MB), you find those in Octane2, Fuel, Tezro.

Thanks! I'm proud of it too.

Elan (i.e., Express graphics, such as Indy XZ which is the same chipset, etc.) has no true hardware texture mapping support. It's quite nice for non-textured work, but textures will seriously compromise its performance. You'd need to step to HighIMPACT graphics and an Indigo2 to get around that.

hamei wrote:

jan-jaap wrote: Queue Hamei and the IBM T221 in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, ...

hey, there's an Eizo that takes two dvi inputs also !

Which Eizo model would that be ? Can't seem to find it on the Eizo site...

Jack Luminous wrote: Which Eizo model would that be ? Can't seem to find it on the Eizo site...

sx3031w

Don't look at the price unless you're sitting down

Ooh ! Apparently therre's some smaller NEC's with the same feature. The buzzword to search for is < picture-by-picture >. You can imagine how well a search for < dual dvi input > turned out !

This one is even better - god knows what the price is tho, I'm certainly not going to look :

http://www.eizoglobal.com/products/flex ... html#tab02

for $ 800 tho ...

http://www.macworld.com/article/2155965 ... sleep.html

There's a bunch really, this is cool, better than before ... lots of reasonable price NECs ...

It also looks like all the 4k displays are also using dual inputs to get past the 30hz barrier. I've seen hdmi-to-dvi adapters, so that would be another possibility ?

Maybe in another five years the peecee world will catch up to where SGI and IBM were ten years ago

Thanks for the infos, Hamei ! When I got the V12/DCD in my Octane, I looked for a monitor with two DVI inputs to display sided-by-side but couldn't find any at the time (about two years ago).

TeamBlackFox wrote: They said retirement only comes when they start to break.

Is that for the people, or the computers, or both?

ajw99uk wrote: Is that for the people, or the computers, or both?

Computers.

Jack Luminous wrote: When I got the V12/DCD in my Octane, I looked for a monitor with two DVI inputs to display sided-by-side but couldn't find any at the time (about two years ago).

Same here, just that $5,000 Eizo. I was pretty excited to see that there's several others now in the $800-ish range that will do the dual-independent-input thing. Even better, it looks like all the high-res displays will be using that method, too.

Eventually this monitor will die, it's nice to have some future options. Once you do high-res, you don't want to go back