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Wrote on the subject of RASC is here! at Oct. 3, 2005, 7:37 a.m...

Using a RASC rack is like programming a GPU. Beside running shader programs on it, you could use them a dsp, too.

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Wrote on the subject of SGI hardware in movies at June 8, 2006, 12:07 p.m...

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Didn't notice these a few years back

--me, too. nice screenshots, indeed. that sgi-notebook looks different than that one in "twister".

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Wrote on the subject of SGI hardware in movies at June 8, 2006, 2:17 p.m...

oh i see, the display is presenter-based - so it should be the same "fake-laptop" as in the twister movie. but looks nice and convincing, as in twister one could only see the upper part of the laptop.

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Wrote on the subject of SGI hardware in movies at June 9, 2006, 6:18 a.m...

I definetively need this movie on dvd - didn't remember that it was such massively sgi-equipped.

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Wrote on the subject of SGI Octane vs PC??? at March 13, 2007, 12:01 p.m...

it's a pity they didn't use a dual r14k-600 octane2 in this benchmark

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Wrote on the subject of Octane2 / 2x400 / 5GB RAM / V8 / 36GB HDD at March 24, 2007, 5:33 p.m...

I couldn't resist in upgrading my lovely toy:

Code:

Octane2 1% hinv -mv

Location: /hw/node

PM20400MHZ Board: barcode KYA069     part 030-1476-001 rev  D

Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15

IP30 Board: barcode MMP229     part 030-1467-001 rev  H

Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15/pci/2

PWR.SPPLY.ER Board: barcode AAE9200234 part 060-0035-002 rev  A

FP1 Board: barcode MCD790     part 030-0891-003 rev  H

Location: /hw/node/xtalk/11

ODY128 Board: barcode KTW991     part 030-1404-003 rev  A

2 400 MHZ IP30 Processors

Heart ASIC: Revision F

CPU: MIPS R12000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.5

FPU: MIPS R12010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0

Main memory size: 5120 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 2 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 2)

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: V8

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

Code:

Octane2 2% /usr/gfx/gfxinfo

Graphics board 0 is "ODYSSEY" graphics.

Managed (":0.0") 1280x1024

BUZZ version A.1

PB&J version 1

128MB memory

Banks: 4, CAS latency: 3

Monitor 0 type: Unknown

Channel 0:

Origin = (0,0)

Video Output: 1280 pixels, 1024 lines, 50.00Hz (1280x1024_50)

Running the V8 only at 50Hz on a F180 tft results in a clear image without the typical V6/V8 'OpenGL-artefacts' and problems.

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Wrote on the subject of SGI new CEO (!?...) at April 9, 2007, 3:53 p.m...

As far as I have his biography in mind, McKenna is a manager who used to rescue companies and carry on afterwards. So it's no time for being anxious imho.

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Wrote on the subject of SGI new CEO (!?...) at April 10, 2007, 3:26 a.m...

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SGIC&t=6m&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=

Seems like there are good expectations on the marked concerning the CEO change.

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Wrote on the subject of SGI new CEO (!?...) at April 10, 2007, 4:19 a.m...

Ah no. The old CEO disappointed us fans and freaks by dismissing graphics. But he did what he had to do quite well.

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Wrote on the subject of Best CRT display for V8? at Oct. 26, 2007, 1:48 a.m...

Try the GDM 5411. Goes around 100 $ and has an excellent picture.

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Wrote on the subject of IRIX look & feel .gtkrc at May 28, 2009, 1:33 a.m...

shel: Thanks to Eric Masson, there is a complete IRIX Window manager for Linux:

http://www.maxxdesktop.com/site/

it has been discussed here:

http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=16293&start=0&hilit=maxx

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Wrote on the subject of Octane2 / 2x400 / 5GB RAM / V8 / 36GB HDD at May 28, 2009, 1:59 a.m...

Code:

Octane2 4% hinv -mv

Location: /hw/node

PM20400MHZ Board: barcode KYA069     part 030-1476-001 rev  D

Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15

IP30 Board: barcode MMP229     part 030-1467-001 rev  H

Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15/pci/2

PWR.SPPLY.ER Board: barcode AAE1050838 part 060-0035-002 rev  A

FP1 Board: barcode MCD790     part 030-0891-003 rev  H

Location: /hw/node/xtalk/11

ODY128VERSIONB Board: barcode MDF774     part 030-1611-001 rev  C

2 400 MHZ IP30 Processors

Heart ASIC: Revision F

CPU: MIPS R12000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.5

FPU: MIPS R12010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0

Main memory size: 8192 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)

Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 2)

Disk drive: unit 3 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 3)

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

Code:

Octane2 5% /usr/gfx/gfxinfo

Graphics board 0 is "ODYSSEY" graphics.

Managed (":0.0") 1696x1056

BUZZ version B.1

PB&J version 1

128MB memory

Banks: 4, CAS latency: 3

Monitor 0 type: Unknown

Channel 0:

Origin = (0,0)

Video Output: 1680 pixels, 1050 lines, 60.00Hz (1680x1050_60)

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Wrote on the subject of #define INV_ODSY_MEMCFG_512 at June 5, 2009, 8:37 a.m...

very interesting discovery! :shock:

how much potential there is inside these boards!

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Wrote on the subject of Onyx 350 IP: V12 2x600 R16k 6GB DM8 SAS/SATA USB at June 11, 2009, 1:35 a.m...

Nice work! and because your machine has this temperature monitoring, you can alway check if everything is ok.
Octane doesnt :-(

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Wrote on the subject of [...] at June 16, 2009, 9:37 a.m...

really a dream-machine with appearently no broken plastic. I guess they did not produce so much of them - so they're very rare.
I'd like to play with it around for an hour or two

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Wrote on the subject of Old Alias and Wavefront apps screenshots... at June 17, 2009, 3:42 a.m...

Google Imagre Search brings up a lot:

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Wrote on the subject of Akihabara at June 18, 2009, 5:04 a.m...

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I'm dispatching a hitman[...]

But why? these are so cute girlies!

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Wrote on the subject of SGI Art Gallery at June 18, 2009, 9:18 a.m...

@Martin Steen: this fractal rendering is done on a fuel? which software did you use?

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Wrote on the subject of SGI Art Gallery at June 18, 2009, 9:34 a.m...

@Martin Steen: it's produces really nice images!

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Wrote on the subject of Fractal benchmark at June 24, 2009, 3:56 a.m...

@Martin Steen: Thank you very much!
I didn't dare to ask you to publish the fractal generator from the "SGI Art Gallery" thread, thought you might want to keep that closed - but you finally released it :-D

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Wrote on the subject of Fractal benchmark at June 24, 2009, 4:27 a.m...

Here we go:

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Octane2 8% ./run1.sh


Fractal benchmark / by Martin Steen


Size   =256x256


Iter   =16384


Threads=4


Render 1 of 3: fract_0088_2.tga


InitThreads OK


....................................................


Render 2 of 3: fract_0088_8.tga


InitThreads OK


....................................................


Render 3 of 3: fract_0088_9.tga


InitThreads OK


....................................................




real    2m38.56s


user    2m37.17s


sys     0m0.18s

~159seconds on a dual R12K400 Octane.

concerning CPU-load, top gave me:

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2 CPUs: 47,6% idle, 51,6% usr,  0,8% ker,  0,0% wait,  0,0% xbrk,  0,0% intr


PID       PGRP USERNAME PRI  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME WCPU% CPU% COMMAND


1399       1398 robert   +20 5472K 2864K run/1    0:27 96,3 96,23 fractba

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Wrote on the subject of Fractal benchmark at June 24, 2009, 5:44 a.m...

Wait!

Seems like Octane has to warmup ^_^ a little bit.
doing the 2nd script, your renderer uses both cpu's in stage 3:

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Octane2 10% ./run2.sh


Fractal benchmark / by Martin Steen


Size   =2048x2048


Iter   =16384


Threads=4


Render 1 of 3: fract_0088_2.tga


InitThreads OK


....................................................


Render 2 of 3: fract_0088_8.tga


InitThreads OK


.............^[[B.......................................


Render 3 of 3: fract_0088_9.tga


InitThreads OK


................

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2 CPUs:  1,3% idle, 94,8% usr,  3,3% ker,  0,1% wait,  0,0% xbrk,  0,5% intr


PID       PGRP USERNAME PRI  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME WCPU% CPU% COMMAND


1402       1401 robert   +20 5696K 3088K run/0  116:09  154 160,1 fractba

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Wrote on the subject of Fractal benchmark at June 24, 2009, 7:29 a.m...

Seems like there is still an issue about threads that I have
to spot.

Well, for me, your program works really smooth, even at 97,4% usr. I can still do work while rendering.

Seti, on the other hand, stalls the Octane while working on 2 datasets; it becomes totally unresponsive then.

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Wrote on the subject of Fractal benchmark at June 25, 2009, 4:20 a.m...

Thanks for sharing the sourcecode. It built on MIPSpro 7.4.4m without any error or warning.

Now I'm torturing the Octane with it:

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/fractbatch 8192 8192 1024 32 frects0089.txt

I get 187,8 CPU% right at the beginning.

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Wrote on the subject of VTR at June 25, 2009, 11:50 a.m...

no, it does not work with an SGI Octane Personal Video Board.
yes can use VTR as source.
no, SGI Octane1 for Impact GFX Digital Video Board cannot run in octane2.

yes - browse this forum to find all the answers.

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Wrote on the subject of VTR at June 26, 2009, 4:04 a.m...

I do not unterstand you.

Here you go:

http://forums.nekochan.net/search.php

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Wrote on the subject of SGI Wallpaper (Fan Made) at June 27, 2009, 2:49 a.m...

Thanks a lot! I like the Octane wallpapers 8-)

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Wrote on the subject of scsimon: Display temperature of SCSI drives at July 13, 2009, 7:32 a.m...

@ShadeOfBlue: Thanks!!

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Octane2 8# ./scsimon /dev/scsi/sc0d1l0


Inquiry response: [IBM     DDYS-T36950M    SC4D]


Current temperature: 39C/102F


Maximum temperature: 85C/185F


Self-test data:


Octane2 9# ./scsimon /dev/scsi/sc0d2l0


Inquiry response: [SEAGATE SX1181677LCV    C00C]


Current temperature: 35C/95F


Maximum temperature: 65C/149F


Self-test data:


0: uptime=2h  code='bg short'  result='completed OK'


1: uptime=1h  code='bg short'  result='completed OK'


Octane2 10# ./scsimon /dev/scsi/sc0d3l0


Inquiry response: [SGI     ST318404LC      3126]


ERROR: Device does not support temperature readout.


Self-test data:


0: uptime=2h  code='bg short'  result='completed OK'


1: uptime=1h  code='bg short'  result='completed OK'

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Wrote on the subject of MaXX Desktop DR3 at July 15, 2009, 5:31 a.m...

I'll get myself an Ubuntu x86 VM (having MacOS as main OS atm).

Test results will follow soon. - I find that MaXX Desktop very important.

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Wrote on the subject of MaXX Desktop DR3 at July 15, 2009, 7:26 a.m...

W O W ! ! ! :shock:

This is awesome!

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I just installed the MaXX inside a Parallels Ubuntu 9.04 on my MacBook.
The shell-script installation ran flawessly and now the windowmanager can be selected inside login screen.

First impression: It's such a strange feeling to have "IRIX" on my laptop :shock:

But very nice!!

Thank you very much everyone who's involved in developing it!!

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Wrote on the subject of MaXX Desktop DR3 at July 17, 2009, 9:54 a.m...

this may sound silly somehow(?), but:

considering the fact, that inside the Linux kernel is - thanks to SGI's commitment - a lot of IRIX code. So with MaXX Desktop, IRIX lives on even on the desktop...

And now that there is the EFI bios, one could think about creating a linux distro that brings up the console that we are use to on SGI workstations while booting.

"NekoIRIX 7.0" :idea:

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Wrote on the subject of Yum... at July 24, 2009, 3:35 p.m...

Lecker!

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Wrote on the subject of Yum... at July 25, 2009, 3:26 a.m...

No, it means "delicious" :-)

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Wrote on the subject of Wanted: IBM Aptiva (see image inside) at July 25, 2009, 5 a.m...

This was my second computer (after C64), but now it's a hard-to-find :-(

perhaps somebody in Europe wants to ged rid of it?

The model number should be 2168:

75MHz P54C-Pentium or faster;
8MB RAM-expandable to 128;
500mb harddisk
and 1mb Trident Framebuffer 'GFX' - upgradeable to 2MB)

Mainboard layout:
http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/I/IBM-CORPORATION-Pentium-APTIVA-2144-2168-TYPE-H-2.html

Thanks!!

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Wrote on the subject of Yum... at July 25, 2009, 5:21 a.m...

Oh - well, I can imagine that :-)

To me it looks like a menu from a good Asian restaurant. (to which I go seldom because they're rather expensive in germany)

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Wrote on the subject of WTF? This person thinks forums.nekochan.net is mine at July 27, 2009, 11:17 p.m...

HAL9000 wrote:

Hello Dave. How about a nice game of backgammon?

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Wrote on the subject of Rackmount Onyx2 [1 of 8] at July 28, 2009, 4:06 a.m...

Very nice system! You set up that Onyx2 very fast.

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Wrote on the subject of Wanted: IBM Aptiva (see image inside) at July 29, 2009, 1:23 a.m...

It was indeed just an ordinary pc, but with some IBM customizations.

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Wrote on the subject of Wanted: IBM Aptiva (see image inside) at Aug. 1, 2009, 1:25 p.m...

No, it's just about playning around and feeling nostalgica.

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Wrote on the subject of Wanted: IBM Aptiva (see image inside) at Aug. 2, 2009, 1:19 a.m...

@bri3d: then you upgraded it - 16 MB for 486 was really a lot.

I was crazy about my Aptiva-I totally maxed it out. In the end, it was more expensive than simply buying a new PC.
I inserted 128MB ram; Ethernet; FireGL 1000 Pro PCI; bigger Harddrive and installed Windows NT.

Later I donated it to some person. He thought, switching the PSU from 220 to 110 volts could be a good idea :twisted:

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