Gregory's ServerSiliconGraphics ONYX users know the answer to this..
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@kkarhan Some day, some dayβ¦ π€ But damn I miss Dodoid :Β·( @sassageflare @kkarhan Dodoid is still around in the SGI scene.. he's working on DFRD (Dodoid Fast Remote Display), a PCI card to offload browser rendering via GL forwarding, to bring the modern web to IRIX 4Dwm desktops.  @flexion @sassageflare Really? I mean a "web accelerator" would make sense given the aging hardware's limitations... @sassageflare @kkarhan Latest update about D1 in February 2023 and he had since posted some updates in the SGUG discord as well https://forums.irixnet.org/thread-3855.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBmTFluB3I Tell #Dodroid I sez hi and we'd all love to see more updated content. Also there's space on the :fediverse: for #RetroComputing fans including #sgi nerds... @sassageflare @flexion Needless to say that I want to see some "Scalable Workstation & Server" to be redesigned and reintroduced. Like some 19" rack with PCIe switch as "sideplane" and cables to interconnect Mainboards and Storage, GPUs, NICs and all the other "fun stuff" one would love to shove into a "deskside" minirack... @sassageflare @flexion Have it's rear be a giant liquid cooling radiator with a bunch of Noctua fans that pull the air through the chassis and out to through the radiator... https://noctua.at/en/nf-f12-industrialppc-3000-pwm Y' know... Something that would actually be feasible as a design and not some #SingleVendor / #SingleProvider solution only... @sassageflare @flexion That being said I do have a "boring" HP Z600... But you'll likely call me a filthy casual for even mentioning a regular-ass #amd64 workstation... ONYX πββ€οΈβπββ‘β   @flexion We had an entire retro SGI park at a former employer. Some were used on the road back in the day, with warning stickers on how to re-seat the mounted modules after transport. One used to be a community shell host. Some had up to 9 or 12 graphics outputs. That must have been fun times.  @flexion In 1997 or so, somebody got my department a Challenge system *on indefinite loan*. I want to say it was one of the then-new R10000 systems, but wouldnβt swear to it. Unfortunately nobody knew what to *do* with it, so it sat almost entirely idle the whole time we had it. I felt bad for it so for a year or so my login routine opened a window and ran βdcβ on it, just in case I needed a calculator quickly. Huh. I just realized thatβs probably where I fell in love with RPN calculators.  @shelldozer thanks, I know Ian has one and have been in contact with him. Thing is, I don't know if that Onyx still works, so it would be an expensive experiment, buying and shipping a PSU from the UK. I'm still hoping to find someone nearby who will borrow me a power supply for a test run first. Or find a second Onyx / Challenge.  @flexion When I had a job as a student researcher with my universityβs VR center in 1999, I really loved our Onyx 2 - not only for the great design and the colour TFT showing load in all four rendering pipelines, but also very much for the fact that you could dry your clothes quickly by hanging them near to its fans exhaust air streams. It was quite hot and loud though, in the student room where they had put it β¦ @flexion right on! I had SGI Reality Engines for my use at SAIC, Angel Studios, and a project at Disney. Awesome, but best to have the compute part far away from where I worked. |
@flexion or anyone with a seriois workstation...
I mean I'd love to have one but I don't have space for it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo3lUw9GUJA