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Tezro comes in both desktop and rackmount form factors. 1 - 4 MIPS R16000 processors, up to 16 GB RAM, 7 PCI-X slots from 3 busses. Based on Origin 350 architecture.

Onyx4 "supports" up to 32 graphics GPUs, but more can be added. Each pipe can drive one or two displays or up to 16 GPUs can be used together in parallel for increased performance. Onyx4 is essentially a new graphics brick to be used on Origin 300 or 3000 class host systems.

SGI has issued a press release discussing a monster Onyx4 they've already sold:
http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2003/ju ly/lanl.html

There are gobs of new SD and HD video card available for both new systems, as well as new audio card offerings. Both machines will seem to require at least IRIX 6.5.21 (the August 2003 quarterly release) to run.

It's most definitly a hardware thing.

It's a development of regular NUMA technology, called NUMAflex. See SGIs page about NUMAflex for more in-detail information.

Works every time? Not more than half...

There is a long-standing link from the freeware pages at SGI which states:

GNU autoconf generates configure scripts that assume that if a library exists, it should be used. This is incorrect on IRIX, which keeps some old libraries around just for the sake of backward compatibility with very old programs. This alone breaks most of the GNU utilities on IRIX. To prevent this from happening, simply force GNU configure to explicitly ignore 'libsocket', 'libnsl', 'libgen' and 'libsun'. All these interfaces have their up-to-date entries in the standard C library libc.so on IRIX 6.x.

For example, when calling GNU configure you should use something like:

ac_cv_lib_gen_getmntent=no \
ac_cv_lib_sun=no \
ac_cv_lib_sun_getpwnam=no \
ac_cv_lib_sun_getmntent=no \
ac_cv_lib_sun_yp_match=no \
ac_cv_lib_socket=no \
ac_cv_lib_socket_main=no \
configure ...
Note that this is just an example. Make sure to look at your config.cache (or equivalent) file after configuration, and inspect it for any suspicious ac_cv_lib... entries that match one of the libraries mentioned above and force them to no (or equivalent).

This is a fair warning, and the devil is in the details...

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/sgi_propack/

I've never seen a "smart" compiler as you put it, though there are systems where the programmers can explicitely parallelize a loop.

Oh, because you've never seen it, it can't exist? Great logic there, I hate to think what your code is like. See here and here and here.

I've never seen a "smart" compiler as you put it, though there are systems where the programmers can explicitely parallelize a loop.

Oh, because you've never seen it, it can't exist? Great logic there, I hate to think what your code is like. See here and here and here.

My gut reaction is that this isn't a cluster. A cluster is a network of independent computers collaborating on delivering some service.

This is a parallell (super) computer. Key difference: all the processors share a single memory space with each other. Programs will run exactly as if this was a single (multitasking) computer.

Most clusters I've worked on are just a bunch of computers with a fast network, using various protocols to synchronize their behavior ("Hey, node 19 isn't pinging, he must have died. Wasn't he running Muckatron? Who takes that job? "Me!" Ok, Joe, start up Muckatron, it's your baby now...)

Also, does anyone know if anyone except SGI makes massively parallell unified memory computers anymore? Those Origins are some kick-ass machines...

Does anyone have a good link to some "official" definitions of cluster and parallell computer?

PS.

Kids today would probably call this a "massively" parallell computer. Hah! Back in my day, we used Connection Machines with 65536 1-bit processors! All the processors had to run the same program (synchronized cycle by cycle), though the data was different at each node. We had to program it in *Lisp, the sickest programming environment then invented, but we were happy with it! We wept for joy, every morning and sometimes at lunch!

Why not just download it?

SGI are kind enough to jump through all the hoops on your behalf, for most all freeware apps.

Main product page: http://www.sgi.com/servers/altix/

and here there are bunch of PDFs to download: http://www.sgi.com/servers/altix/datasheets.html

for example:
SGI Altix 3000 Family of Servers and Superclusters (172K)
Linux Software for the SGI Altix 3000 Family (50K)
SGI Technology Solutions for Linux (48K)

Main product page: http://www.sgi.com/servers/altix/

and here there are bunch of PDFs to download: http://www.sgi.com/servers/altix/datasheets.html

for example:
SGI Altix 3000 Family of Servers and Superclusters (172K)
Linux Software for the SGI Altix 3000 Family (50K)
SGI Technology Solutions for Linux (48K)

Main product page: http://www.sgi.com/servers/altix/

and here there are bunch of PDFs to download: http://www.sgi.com/servers/altix/datasheets.html

for example:
SGI Altix 3000 Family of Servers and Superclusters (172K)
Linux Software for the SGI Altix 3000 Family (50K)
SGI Technology Solutions for Linux (48K)

Main product page: http://www.sgi.com/servers/altix/

and here there are bunch of PDFs to download: http://www.sgi.com/servers/altix/datasheets.html

for example:
SGI Altix 3000 Family of Servers and Superclusters (172K)
Linux Software for the SGI Altix 3000 Family (50K)
SGI Technology Solutions for Linux (48K)

Main product page: http://www.sgi.com/servers/altix/

and here there are bunch of PDFs to download: http://www.sgi.com/servers/altix/datasheets.html

for example:
SGI Altix 3000 Family of Servers and Superclusters (172K)
Linux Software for the SGI Altix 3000 Family (50K)
SGI Technology Solutions for Linux (48K)

> Windows XP has USB 2.0
linux-usb.org
Linux seems to have had this since June 2001

>it has low-latency audio
this depends on the kernel, but there are already distributions focused on this

Linux Journal

> it can play DVDs, MPEG-4 media player
MPlayer is faster than the WMP and plays video better, IMHO

> it has translucent windows
I guess everyone misses this...

> built-in NAT
What is built in? automatic you mean?

> drag-and-drop CD recording
have you ever tried the _Built-in_ Nautilus cd burner? gnome.ftp

> it has an encrypted
Last I checked this is also built in, take a look at the Linux Kernel
> compressed file system
same as before, but it is not automatic and takes more setup, but CramFS, cloop, etc have been in use for a while

> they have fine-grained access controls
I guess the Journaled, enterprise file-systems don't count?
XFS
JSF

> they have a common language runtime
They are pushing and developing modern programming languages so that we aren't all stuck programming in C.
Take a look at Pel 6, Jython

> (I also know that most of this stuff is available on linux, but it's also kind of a pain in the ass.)
Most of it is pretty simple, mplayer or Xine are genrally default in Distributions, there are distributions _just_ for sound, and anyone look at the alcs and encryption can gereally configure them
On the other hand, I install new things really easily with Gentoo
`emerge new_cool_app`

In the case of IRIX, SGI is just facing reality: they've never made a dent in the desktop market, and it's not worth spending money to make their workstations do things people can do more cheaply with Wintel systems. When I worked there, they didn't even have up-to-date Quicktime codecs!

This is somewhat true. However, SGI does work on an IRIX port of Mozilla. Their OSS site has some builds of Mozilla, as does their Freeware site. The most recent available now is 1.4rc1, but 1.4 will be in the next quarterly Freeware update. Mozilla 1.02 currently ships with the most recent version of IRIX and will be replaced with 1.4 (or maybe 1.4.1) later this year.

Heck, if you want to dig thru even more of their freeware collection, visit the site or use the following exact string to have Software Manager connect to it directly:
swmgr -f http://freeware.sgi.com/Inst/
(you -do- need that tailing slash)

As far as the Quicktime codecs, that's more of a matter of customer demand. Most of SGI's customers use their machines to work on uncompressed HD video with software like Discreet Inferno or IFX Piranha. True, it would be nice to be able to view modern compressed Quicktime video on an IRIX box, but it's not needed by most of their customers. They are slowly supporting more off the shelf hardware, which is nice. IRIX 6.5.20 and newer support the Revolution 7.1 PCI sound card, which is waaaay cheaper than using SGI's digital audio card and a breakout box or mixer.

In the case of IRIX, SGI is just facing reality: they've never made a dent in the desktop market, and it's not worth spending money to make their workstations do things people can do more cheaply with Wintel systems. When I worked there, they didn't even have up-to-date Quicktime codecs!

This is somewhat true. However, SGI does work on an IRIX port of Mozilla. Their OSS site has some builds of Mozilla, as does their Freeware site. The most recent available now is 1.4rc1, but 1.4 will be in the next quarterly Freeware update. Mozilla 1.02 currently ships with the most recent version of IRIX and will be replaced with 1.4 (or maybe 1.4.1) later this year.

Heck, if you want to dig thru even more of their freeware collection, visit the site or use the following exact string to have Software Manager connect to it directly:
swmgr -f http://freeware.sgi.com/Inst/
(you -do- need that tailing slash)

As far as the Quicktime codecs, that's more of a matter of customer demand. Most of SGI's customers use their machines to work on uncompressed HD video with software like Discreet Inferno or IFX Piranha. True, it would be nice to be able to view modern compressed Quicktime video on an IRIX box, but it's not needed by most of their customers. They are slowly supporting more off the shelf hardware, which is nice. IRIX 6.5.20 and newer support the Revolution 7.1 PCI sound card, which is waaaay cheaper than using SGI's digital audio card and a breakout box or mixer.

Probably because they haven't bothered to release 7.x browsers for Solaris, SGI, etc. And rightly so, as they've really nothing to gain from that.

Most of those companies do release their own version, tho. I know SGI has Mozilla available from their freeware site.

I'd be interested in seeing how XFS and NTFS/WinFS compare to each other in terms of large/small file performance, lots of file accesses, etc. Does anyone know of any such comparisons?

Much like databases should be ACID compliant, filesystem writes can and should occur in such a manner that no external journal is required.

And how would you propose to achieve that without performance going down the drain?
The guys writing these filesystems are not dumb, and the reasons why journals are used are well considered. Another thing is that ACID compliant databases also use something like a journal to achive the atomicity.
Oh, and forget softupdates, they are _not_ comparable to journaling filesystems, for instance you still need to fsck, it's just faster.
Compare that with one of the funnies manpages I know.

Unfortunately, Taco et al have drank the Jobs Kool-Aide and have become little more than a drooling fanboy WRT Apple's hardware. Thus, they ignore apple's many shortcomings, including price, compatibility, their obnoxious hardware design, etc. As Apple is the last computer maker to head into the modern era with a 64 bit processor -- something other makers have had for months, if not years -- they're trying to generate hype for themselves and other fanboys so they can keep saying to themselves that the money they spent on the crapware from cupertino was somehow worth it.

Well if anything you can't fault VFX with the story. But yes each prequel had over 2000 VFX shots. You have to read the article though, last film Weta did about 800 VFX shots and for this they are doing upwards of 1200. As their technology matures (Massive, muscle dynamics, subsurface scattering) you can even throw more things at to the VFX.

It certainly is a big setup, they are adding 1,176 new processors to what they already had (which was stated in an article some time ago). Probably ILM and Imageworks have a bit more though. The article says that they have the largets Intel deployment, but places like ILM and Imageworks, besides their Intel/Linux machine still have quite bit of SGI hardware around. An article on the SGI websitye a couple years back stated ILM had an 800 CPU Origin 2000 machine, and around 500 O2s. Since then a lot of the TDs, animators and compositors have gotten Dell Linux workstations and several of them keep the 2 machines side by side (the O2 and the Dell). ILM and Pixar also recently added to their renderfarm via RackSaver:

Pixar switches from Sun to Intel
Racksaver testimonials
AMD debuts server processor, readies 'Barton'
SGI Powers 5 Summer films

It certainly is nice that New Line is paying for this though. I'm sure other studios are envious ;-).

One thing you can do under AIX/IRIX/etc that you can't do under linux is to grow a filesystem on the fly. You have to umount first, which is rather silly in a production environment. Of course, if you're running XFS on your linux box, this wouldn't be an issue.

Yours truly,
Jeffrey Boulier

SGI's XFS still occasionally hangs my machine under heavy load. Plus, by the time they have a release out for 2.4.20 (they still don't), I'm sure I'll be running 2.4.21.

Just go to http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/patchlist.html and pick up the patch against 2.4.20. Works very well for me. All the releases get you is a bunch of release notes and rpms against RedHat kernels. I always get these patches which come out very promptly after the stock kernel release and work very well.

an lcd the screen does not flicker but it still has a dac inside that must sync to the analog signal and refresh its screen

No, it doesn't. First of all, unless you're using an LCD from circa 1995, there's no analog signal coming into the monitor at all. It's square waves as far as the eye can see, baby.

And secondly, LCD's DO NOT REFRESH. This is the key concept you're unable to grasp.

Also, I really don't understand where you keep getting this 75 Hz thing from. It's 60 Hz, same as mains current. In Europe, it's 50 Hz.

hell you even made quake3

No, but I did fix Id's Origin 2000 one time.

when a program can render 300fps avg, say 160fps minimum - theres an opportunity to run it in sync at a high refresh rate and acheive a better experience

Toy computers like your PC lack the hardware necessary to provide a feedback loop to the graphics coprocessor. It is not possible for your game to sync its frame rate to an external source. There's no external signal input. It's simply not possible.

btw, quake does not look jerky for me

Obviously you are not particularly experienced at looking at visual simulations. You wouldn't know judder, in other words, if it bit you on the ass.

install quake3 arena and see what fps you get

With the OpenGL version of Quake 2, free-running, we got about 1,200 frames per second. That was on 250 MHz R10K's. You can download the binaries from here and see for yourself if you've got an Infinite Reality handy.

we're talking about refresh rates here

Are we? Are we talking about vblank or buffer swap? The point is, of course, that you fail to understand the difference.

That used to be true, but I don't think it is anymore. A high-end Beowulf compute node these days typically gives you 2 processors and 2-4 Gigabit Ethernet channels, going into a high-end switch.

Once you've factored in the cost of all that Myrinet kit, and the time to do all the systems integration, it's probably cheaper to buy an SGI anyway, especially when you consider that the individual components of the SGI are going to require far less maintenance than commodity off-the-shelf PCs. Don't get me wrong, Beowulfs have their places, but if I wanted a Linux supercomputer, I'd get an Altix with NUMALink instead of a pile of Dells and Myrinets.

Perhaps someone from the Mozilla project will read this...

I notice that there's an IRIX version of Mozilla available from the nightly build collection, yet there is no IRIX version on the offical releases page. I know SGI maintains a port of IRIX on their OSS and freeware sites, but these are usually out of date. I think it would be nice to see an IRIX download of the final releases on the actual Mozilla site. If the hardware already exists to build the nightlies, I wouldn't imagine it would take much time or effort to build and tar up the final versions for download as well.

Or at the very least, how about add the links to SGI's two download sites to the Mozilla release notes. OpenVMS is even listed!

Just my $0.02. I've been using the nightlies for a few weeks now and am very happy with the progress that has been made since Mozilla 1.0.

Perhaps someone from the Mozilla project will read this...

I notice that there's an IRIX version of Mozilla available from the nightly build collection, yet there is no IRIX version on the offical releases page. I know SGI maintains a port of IRIX on their OSS and freeware sites, but these are usually out of date. I think it would be nice to see an IRIX download of the final releases on the actual Mozilla site. If the hardware already exists to build the nightlies, I wouldn't imagine it would take much time or effort to build and tar up the final versions for download as well.

Or at the very least, how about add the links to SGI's two download sites to the Mozilla release notes. OpenVMS is even listed!

Just my $0.02. I've been using the nightlies for a few weeks now and am very happy with the progress that has been made since Mozilla 1.0.

10 of these ought to be more powerful than anything else that's been built. 1060 processors, 5760gb of RAM

You're not even close. This cluster has 48 nodes with 128 processors apiece, but each node can take up to 512. Each node also has up to a terabyte of RAM.

10 of these ought to be more powerful than anything else that's been built. 1060 processors, 5760gb of RAM

You're not even close. This cluster has 48 nodes with 128 processors apiece, but each node can take up to 512. Each node also has up to a terabyte of RAM.

Agreed. And not only that, but the big computer corporations often started with class A (16 million addresses) blocks, and acquired more over time. HP, for one, has its own class A, Compaq's class A, Digital's class A, and I believe also has Tandem's class A as well. That's 48 million IP addresses. I bet that a full .001% are actually in use. And all the other old IT companies (IBM, Sun, SGI, etc.) probably are similarly inefficient.

http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/3d_navigator.html

Speaking of the IRIX files system: you do know that it's gone open source, right?

Also, adding to the reply of the parent post, OpenGL has the huge advantage of being portable. I have talked to one or two games developers who have told me that porting the OpenGL portion of their game to another platform is fairly straighforward. The remaining 5% of the work is usually politics and platform specific configurations and this is what is the hardest. BTW if my two games programmers' opinion is not representitive of the rest of the games developers, please let me know.

Here's an interesting tidbit from SGI's site... some performance numbers of Intel's Madison (next generation Itanium) on SGI's Altix (Linux/Itanium-based machine running on Origin 3000 architecture)

http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2003/ma y/madison.html

The machine is limited to 64 processors per single-system image (O3K can handle up to 512 out of the box, or 1024 with a special kernel) but the Itanium2 is about 2x as fast as the MIPS R14K... plus the Itanium system can run a very slightly modified linux distribution (currently Red Hat plus SGI's ProPack kernel patches and additional utilities).

Pretty neat stuff for the high-end Linux market. Of course, the number of people that need Origin/Altix level system I/O is pretty slim...

And how is that there are open positions displayed on their Careers page ?

So , Are they blatant fakes ?
or
Is the company merely using the time as an excuse to get rid of the chaff ?

Arent there laws which prevent companies from hiring immediately from a mass layoff ?

SGI did not write FSV (File System Visualizer), Daniel Richard did that and infact was inspired by FSN. FSN (Fusion) is the 3d file system navigator featured in Jurassic Park, but SGI hasn't updated it for awhile (it only works on IRIX versions 5.3 and below.

The display you're thinking of is a MultiLayerDisplay made by Deep Video Imaging.

The top layer is a mostly transparent LCD (not perfectly transparent, but close enough) and the bottom layer is a standard LCD with a powerful backlight. The effect is amazing!

I saw this display and a few others at SGI's developer conference last week -- gobs of really cool stereo 3D and psuedo-stereo 3D monitors. The coolest was one by SeeReal, a display that tracks the position of the user's eyes to provide a true stereo image without needing any special eyewear. The downside of most of the displays is that they're designed for one user only.

• Sun sneers at x86 workstations. SGI would like to sell x86 workstations, but waited too long to enter the market.
• Sun used to talk about doing Itanium boxes, but lost interest. SGI's put a lot of effort into its Altix servers.
• Sun has an x86 rackmount business, SGI does not. Though I often wonder how serious Sun is about this business. I've noticed that people who were customers when it was a separate company called Cobalt are not happy with the new management. And you'll notice that Sun has two or three Sparc rackmount models for every one x86 model.
• Sun still has a huge Sparc development operation, and still uses Sparc exclusively in most of its products. SGI has spun off MIPS, and supposedly plans to give "commodity" systems equal priority -- though MIPS-based systems still dominate their product line.

And it was a UNIX system indeed. IRIX to be more accurate. It's running a program called FSN. You can check out an open source clone here.

Imagine you find this weird system with a strange UI. You are navigating the fs and you notice that the layout is the same as a UNIX system, even though the UI is different than the normal command line. Would you expect something like that to be UNIX? Nope, but she realized it was UNIX. Hence the suprised, "I know this! This is UNIX!"

Hey, what's the point of journaling if you are just going to run chkdsk/fsck everytime, anyhow?

Well, if you are forced to defrag it all the time, that *really* ruins your performance, which defeats the point.

Now you are mixing up the filesystem and the operating system... The filesystem doesn't do the encryption, the software on top of the filesystem does.

Saying OSes other than Windows don't typically have reasonably transparent file encryption has nothing to do with the filesystem itself.

Besides, I would never talk about a distro "out of the box". It's a horrible baseline to use. There are many things that distros don't do "out of the box" that are very easy for an admin to do.

I gave much more detailed info in my reply to his vague assertions, so how does that make you think he knows what he's talking about, and I don't? The only obvious answer is that you promote NTFS yourself, and since he agrees with your opinions, that *must* mean he is knowledgable ...

Modern: definitely, at least compared to most Unix filesystems. It support most or all of their features *plus* compression, encryption, all power of 2 block sizes between 512 and 64 KB, nanosec timestamps, undelete on filesystem level, file forks, ACL's, extended attributes, UTF-8, indexing, etc.

Mature: one should look through its evolution how much it improved over the last 10 years

Stable: how would it work otherwise for several hundred million users?

Fully journalled: that's not true. Only metadata is journaled.

Granted, this is not something for Your home network, but CXFS looks like a good product. AFAIR the server is SGI only, but there should be clients for almost every OS out there.

Yes, I know, it's not a distributed FS, but since so many people suggested NFS, I thought I'd point at another solution.

.haeger

People call games "DX9 games" because the various DirectX revisions give a rough dilineation of the different generations of graphics hardware. Roughly, they are:

DirectX 6: Software Transform and lighting. Most games from this category use lightmaps for lighting, rather than goraud(per vertex) shading.

DirectX 7: Hardware T&L. All those new T&L enabled games you heard about belong here. The opengl equivalent is calling glTranslate, glRotate, etc do to transformations, and using glLight to do lighting

DirectX 8: Vertex and Pixel Shaders. Let's you program the vertex transform and lighting part, and to a lesser extent, the pixel processing part, of the graphics pipeline. Corresponds to the OpenGL extensions NV_VERTEX_PROGRAM, NV_TEXTURE_SHADER, and NV_REGISTER_COMBINERS(for nvidia, similar extensions for ATI)

DirectX 9: Highly programmable Vertex and Pixel Shaders. The old pixel shader model let you do something like 8 operations max, while the new model greatly extends this number. OpenGL extensions are ARB_VERTEX_PROGRAM and ARB_FRAGMENT_PROGRAM.

This is really only a brief overview, there are many, many more OpenGL extensions(which you can see here, some of which have no DirectX counterparts. It's easier to tell non-graphics programmers "It's a DX9 game" than "Oh, it uses OpenGL 1.4, ARB_VERTEX_PROGRAM, ARB_TEXTURE_PROGRAM, etc", especially since DirectX is a well-known name. People generally aren't as aware of the various revisions of OpenGL(which are mainly exposed through extensions).
Doom 3 uses OpenGL for its graphics. In fact, the basic tech required is really DirectX 8 level(bump mapping and stencil buffer), but it looks better on DirectX 9 hardware(due to the higher programmability). It likely uses other Direct X APIs for sound, networking, etc on Windows.

You can argue Open Source and not lose. It can be like the argument for Democratic, Free Market, Open Societies; these are things that can not be easily contended, when debated in a forum open to Peer Review. It is difficult to overcome the fact that even Microsoft has gone Open Source with its largest clients. Microsoft Operating Systems ARE Open Source to NATO, the Chinese, British, & Russian governments; governments demand it -- there are reasons for this.

Trust & Security:
The principle of Trust Services is based on Peer Review. You cannot be Secure without Trust in your Systems. Peer Review is an incarnation of Adam Smith's Invisible Hand. Without Peer Review, what kind of Government do you have ? What kind of System do you have ?

Flexibility:
Milton Friedman's theories on "The Role of Government in Education" & how to introduce flexibility into school systems, could be employed to solidify the point that there is merit in Systems designed with Flexibility in mind. The fact that Open Source solutions run across all levels of computing, from PDA to Supercluster, should be sufficient to quell any questions regarding its Flexibility. [ref: YOPY & SGI Altix 3000]

Support:
Peer Review & Peer Support are very similar.

Cost:
IT'S FREE !!!

You may ask your foe: Why would you want to implement a System model based on central planning & subject yourself to countless regulations, restrictions & licenses ? [ref: MS EULA & how it changes] What would Hayek say about that ? Is that not "The Road to Serfdom" ?

This may also be a good time to reference Hayek's "The Use of Knowledge in Society".

As it turns out, a lot of the best modern origami artists (in my opinion) are somehow technical: John Montroll and Peter Engel are mathematicians, and Robert Lang is an engineer. Even Dr. David Huffman (of Huffman compression fame) was into origami.

Lang has a pretty cool program called TreeMaker which lets him specify a model's "base" characteristics (like a stick figure) and algorithmically produces a fold pattern! Lang also has some of the most fiendishly complex origami I've ever attempted. (And yes, I have to say "attempted" on most of his insect models, not "completed".)

Right now I'm really anxious for my monitor to wear out because LCDs have fallen into my price range. But have they worked out the latency kinks yet? Well, I don't care, 'cause I'm not a gamer. YMMV!

1) Update your install of IRIX 6.5 to the most recent version available to you (6.5.16m for most people, 6.5.19 or 6.5.20 for those with a support contract). If you're unsure about updating, read about the IRIX Release Process as well as theIRIX Compatibility Mandate.

2) Install the security patches for your version of IRIX (note that IRIX releases previous to 6.5.15 will probably not have the most recent security patches available).

3) If you're a security newbie, run the "Improve System Security" application... it can be found under the Security and Access Control section of the System Manager.

4) Install IPFilter, be sure to learn how to use it.

5) Subscribe to SGI's security advisory mailing list.

6) Newbies outta read some of SGI's other sysadmin manuals as well:
Personal Sysadmin
IRIX Admin

7) Update your various freeware apps... be sure to read the seperate freeware security notice:
http://freeware.sgi.com

1) Update your install of IRIX 6.5 to the most recent version available to you (6.5.16m for most people, 6.5.19 or 6.5.20 for those with a support contract). If you're unsure about updating, read about the IRIX Release Process as well as theIRIX Compatibility Mandate.

2) Install the security patches for your version of IRIX (note that IRIX releases previous to 6.5.15 will probably not have the most recent security patches available).

3) If you're a security newbie, run the "Improve System Security" application... it can be found under the Security and Access Control section of the System Manager.

4) Install IPFilter, be sure to learn how to use it.

5) Subscribe to SGI's security advisory mailing list.

6) Newbies outta read some of SGI's other sysadmin manuals as well:
Personal Sysadmin
IRIX Admin

7) Update your various freeware apps... be sure to read the seperate freeware security notice:
http://freeware.sgi.com

1) Update your install of IRIX 6.5 to the most recent version available to you (6.5.16m for most people, 6.5.19 or 6.5.20 for those with a support contract). If you're unsure about updating, read about the IRIX Release Process as well as theIRIX Compatibility Mandate.

2) Install the security patches for your version of IRIX (note that IRIX releases previous to 6.5.15 will probably not have the most recent security patches available).

3) If you're a security newbie, run the "Improve System Security" application... it can be found under the Security and Access Control section of the System Manager.

4) Install IPFilter, be sure to learn how to use it.

5) Subscribe to SGI's security advisory mailing list.

6) Newbies outta read some of SGI's other sysadmin manuals as well:
Personal Sysadmin
IRIX Admin

7) Update your various freeware apps... be sure to read the seperate freeware security notice:
http://freeware.sgi.com

1) Update your install of IRIX 6.5 to the most recent version available to you (6.5.16m for most people, 6.5.19 or 6.5.20 for those with a support contract). If you're unsure about updating, read about the IRIX Release Process as well as theIRIX Compatibility Mandate.

2) Install the security patches for your version of IRIX (note that IRIX releases previous to 6.5.15 will probably not have the most recent security patches available).

3) If you're a security newbie, run the "Improve System Security" application... it can be found under the Security and Access Control section of the System Manager.

4) Install IPFilter, be sure to learn how to use it.

5) Subscribe to SGI's security advisory mailing list.

6) Newbies outta read some of SGI's other sysadmin manuals as well:
Personal Sysadmin
IRIX Admin

7) Update your various freeware apps... be sure to read the seperate freeware security notice:
http://freeware.sgi.com