SGI Onyx 3200
Published at 2025-02-13T21:17:16+02:00
For nostalgia, I've kept this output of the 'dmesg' around. It's from an SGI Onyx 3200 graphics supercomputer running IRIX with the following specs:
- 4 x 400 MHz IP35 MIPS CPUs
- 4GB of RAM
We used this monster when I was a student worker at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology around the year 2006. It operated a walk-in 2-sided 3D cave (unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of that cave), where you could literally walk around with a set of VR glasses and see everything in 3D (that was when there wasn't any Oculus Quest yet). That was useful for running industrial simulations.
4 400 MHZ IP35 Processors CPU: MIPS R12000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.5 FPU: MIPS R12010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 3.5 Main memory size: 4096 Mbytes Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes Data cache size: 32 Kbytes Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 8 Mbytes Integral SCSI controller 8: Version Fibre Channel QL2200A Integral SCSI controller 6: Version QL12160, single ended Integral SCSI controller 7: Version QL12160, low voltage differential Integral SCSI controller 9: Version IEEE1394 SBP2 IEEE1394 CDROM: node 1010031001a454 port 0 on SCSI controller 9 Integral SCSI controller 0: Version Fibre Channel QL2200A Disk drive: unit 1 on SpCSI controller 0 Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0 Integral SCSI controller 5: Version IEEE1394 SBP2 IEEE1394 CDROM: node 1010031001c080 port 0 on SCSI controller 5 IOC3 serial port: tty3 IOC3 serial port: tty4 IOC3 serial port: tty10 IOC3 serial port: tty11 IOC3 serial port: tty12 IOC3 serial port: tty5 IOC3 serial port: tty6 IOC3 serial port: tty7 IOC3 serial port: tty8 IOC3 serial port: tty9 Graphics board: InfiniteReality3 Graphics board: InfiniteReality3 Gigabit Ethernet: eg0, module 001c04, pci_bus 2, pci_slot 2, firmware version 12.4.10 Fast Ethernet: ef1, version 1, module 001c07, pci 4 Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, module 001c04, pci 4 Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 13.0, number 1 IOC3 external interrupts: 2 IOC3 external interrupts: 1 IEEE 1394 High performance serial bus controller 0: Type: OHCI, Version 0 0 IEEE 1394 High performance serial bus controller 1: Type: OHCI, Version 0 0 USB controller: type OHCI USB Human Interface Device: device id 1 type keyboard USB Human Interface Device: device id 1 type mouse USB controller: type OHCI USB Human Interface Device: device id 0 type keyboard USB Human Interface Device: device id 0 type mouse
I was mainly working on drilling simulations on this machine. Sometimes I worked directly at one of the 2 terminal screens of the Onyx, or often I used a nearby Linux machine and forwarded the X11 windows to my local screen.
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