The collected works of GL1zdA - Page 5

xiri wrote: Seems like this monster including rack and 4 IRU's located in Florida was not even tempting for 200 bucks...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SGI-Altix-450-6 ... 7675.l2557

No graphics, no fun

xiri wrote:

xiri wrote:
Seems like this monster including rack and 4 IRU's located in Florida was not even tempting for 200 bucks...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SGI-Altix-450-6 ... 7675.l2557

GL1zdA wrote:
No graphics, no fun

AFAIK the A450 was delivered with the ATI Fire MV 2200 and supports PCI-E. So it's fully possible to get a decent PCI-E based gfx-adapter that comes with linux IA-64 drivers.

Yes it was, using a special I2E/I4E blade. Lot's of work required and in the end it's no different than a Radeon in a PC with Linux.

A dummy Newport board? Can you make a photo of it?

hamei wrote:

uunix wrote: I have tried it chap, in fact it was you who pointed it in out to me.

Guess I better start hitting the fish oil

I see Intel has a new thingy they call Edward (named after Eddie Munster ?) - a (400 mhz) peecee on an SD card. So you could build an entire Loonix cluster of those and stick it into the drive slot of an octane

It's called Edison not Edward: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Edison

Looking forward to your review of the iPad Pro. While I like my 3rd gen iPad I have some doubts about the Pro. Have you bought also the accessories (pen, keyboard etc)?

I hope it's just temporary.

Serious power!

This is the DASH book: Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessing - 30% (100 pages) of it is "Experience with DASH". I've got it some time ago for less than $10.

Not sure if this has been posted before, but I've just found the OCTANE Technical Report .

robespierre wrote: I think that the Octane and Desktop Tezro only have a single node, either with 2 CPUs (for Octane) or 4 CPUs (for Tezro). You would think that the Rackmount Tezro is really an O350 so it would support multiple nodes, but the second brick has graphics and I/O only, no CPUs.

You're right with the Octane and Desktop Tezro, but the Rackmount Tezro was also available as 2 nodes 2 CPUs each using the Workstation Expansion Module (since you couldn't use a 4x 1 GHz CPU nodeboard with the V12). I've tried to compile the available options here , but I don't think anyone has experimented with extreme (unsupported) Tezro configs like the ones in my questions. But there were successful attempts to change the various personalities (Origin 350/Onyx 350/Tezro) of the Chimera.

One funny thing I've found in chapter 2:

In addition, the OCTANE system incorporates the industry standard 72-pin DIMM connector pinout, allowing the user to add off-the-shelf memory devices.

It seems the Octane was designed to use standard DIMMs, but then greed prevailed and we've got proprietary DIMMs. I also think they meant 72-bit DIMMs (64-bit + parity), standard SDRAM DIMMs had 168 pins (unless they wanted 72-pin SO-DIMMs).

I don't think SGI did ATX cases before the Visual Workstation, so if you want a "beige tower" it's not the company to look at. Compaq and HP did some nice tower, but they were mostly custom (non-ATX) towers. Dell had nice ATX beige towers (Dimension XPS series during the Pentium II/III days, some Precision, though you have to make sure it's ATX), just don't use the PSU - it's non ATX. I also liked the early beige Micron Millenia, based on the same Palo Alto chassis as the Dell's. Bear in mind though, that many of these cases are not as wide as current cases - a big Noctua cooler might not fit in.

You can probably add other workstations which were clones of the Intel Itanium workstation, they all are using the same design the SGI 750 has:
http://nekochan.net/wiki/SGI_Visual_Wor ... igurations

The Onyx is actually a very classic SMP design - a fast bus integrating all components. Onyx2 is where it becomes interesting, when they try to find the right balance between tightly coupled SMP and loosely coupled cluster.

I'm looking for a cable which will let me connect a standard SOG monitor to my IrisVision. I know IBM produced a 3W3->BNC one (58F2903), and Digital did a 3W3->HD15 one (17-03851-01 and 17-04816-01), but it has red and blue swapped compared to IBM. What I'm looking for is a properly wired hybrid - IBM 3W3 male on one end and DE-15 female on the other.

I might go that route if there will be no other choice. While the 3W3-> BNC cables are not very expensive (10-15 USD), shipping from the US is (34-53 USD). I thought about looking for someone local who could create the right cable, but it seems you can't buy a single 3W3 connector, you have to buy them in bulk.

Thanks for the offer, but I'm looking for 3W3 not 13W3 cables.

Is there a list of CPUs which the empty socket on the Carolina motherboard in a RS/6000 Model 7248 will accept? It looks suspiciously similar to the socket the 332 MHz 604e CPU in my 43P-140 uses.

Okay, thanks for the information.

Someone still wants a MIPS desktop?
T-Platforms launches a Linux-based, MIPS-powered all-in-one PC (in Russia)

nongrato wrote: Does that Cobalt chip support any version of DirectX? Does anyone have any experience running games that require graphics acceleration?

Took me some time to check and the answer is no - dxdiag screenshot attached.

uunix wrote:

GL1zdA wrote:

nongrato wrote: Does that Cobalt chip support any version of DirectX? Does anyone have any experience running games that require graphics acceleration?

Took me some time to check and the answer is no - dxdiag screenshot attached.

A year and 2 months.. those things are so slow to boot!

Mine hates me. It will randomly stop booting and requires juggling with the three CPUs inside. And there's something strange happening when I benchmark memory bandwidth (with SiSoft Sandra)- it should beat every Pentium III chipset except for the ServerSet III HE with MADP chips but the results are slower than the Intel 440LX with PC66 memory. And it's even slower when I'm using the multi-threaded version.

Did it always look like that? Because an Onyx4 was supposed to have an ATI graphics card.

Thanks for the photos. I have never enough SGI porn.

I've recently got the MCA version (base MRV + MGE + 24-bit buffer, no Z-buffer) and it cost me a "Cubrun" (the Type 4 "Y" PS/2 complex). So, unless there's something special about the ISA version, it is grossly overpriced.

pentium wrote:

GL1zdA wrote: I've recently got the MCA version (base MRV + MGE + 24-bit buffer, no Z-buffer) and it cost me a "Cubrun" (the Type 4 "Y" PS/2 complex). So, unless there's something special about the ISA version, it is grossly overpriced.

You didn't by chance get it from someone on vogons, did you? I was offering money for one there and the guy said he ended up trading it for a Type 4 complex. HMMMMM......

Exactly, it was he. Now I have to get the damn 3W3 cable.

Here's the MCA IrisVision with a more realistic price. It's easier to find the boards via IBM Part numbers.

cinenate35 wrote: Hi Folks,

I made a video a while back about a long forgotten product...maybe you vintage computer enthusiasts might enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6HwrM8llsQ

I've seen it several months ago. Beautiful. It really shows what is good about Apple - creating something that, while not necessary cutting edge, is both useful and user friendly.

This video was one of the reasons I have bought recently a Power Macintosh 6500/275 Creative Studio Edition - fully equipped with all the video hardware (even the HDD and CD-ROM are original units). Unfortunately I still have to get the Software because the hard drive was wiped.

Does anyone know what a DMediaPro DM1 was? It was briefly mentioned by SGI when the Visual Workstation Zx10 was released ( SGI Delivers a Fully Integrated Windows OS-BASED Workstation With SD Video I/O And Real-Time Graphics-to-Video Out ), someone even asked about a Zx10 with DM1 here , but I couldn't find any other information about it. Was it just a rebadged Intergraph StudioZ SDI card? Is this the SGI RavenDS Avid is mentioning in the Avid DS Supported Systems document?

ClassicHasClass wrote: I'm surprised it lasted this long (granted HP was basically dragging Intel by its hair through chip generations at the end).

I suppose we'll see Xeon Superdomes soon.

Superdome X machines are already available.

The title says it all: What is dead may never die: a new version of OS/2 just arrived . $99 for a Personal Edition. Can run in VirtualBox.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/0 ... c_desktop/

MaXX even made it to one of the biggest Polish software sites: https://www.dobreprogramy.pl/Maxx-Inter ... 81482.html .

Came here only to see someone already found it http://www.ebay.pl/itm/263078427500
If someone gets it to work he will have a great system.