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Hot New Silicon Graphics Workstations

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hardware-to-lust-after dept.

Jonathan C. Patschke writes: "SGI have finally unveiled their newest-generation visual workstation, the Silicon Graphics Fuel. Features include a MIPS R14k CPU, Vpro graphics, and a PCI bus (finally)." As you would expect from SGI, it looks good, and the specs are impressive. I only see IRIX listed, but with the specs on this thing, it may not be slow :)

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  1. wow by trollercoaster · · Score: 0, Funny

    Can anybody imagine a beowulf custer?

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  2. One of the key apps is Medical Imaging? by itsnotme · · Score: 3, Funny

    Medical imaging... hmm... shooter games.. medical imaging.. hmm sounds nice.. makes the games more REALISTIC! and probably has enough horsepower to render it in real life color too.. ooh!

  3. unparrallellogram by simeon_pimpmaster · · Score: 2, Funny

    For a company who has a main focus of large-scale parallel processing, I find it funny that they describe their graphics processor as "unparalleled"
    ("the unparalleled VProTM 3D graphics system for IRIX®")

  4. dual 1GHz MIPS on the same chip ! by johnjones · · Score: 3, Funny

    please in terms MHz the PowerPC is well behind even the under funded MIPS CPU's (they dont care so much about MHz but about integration on the same Die i.e. SOC)

    really I dont know why SGI dont use this chip
    RM9000x2 its got HYPERTRANSPORT like the AMD chips and the ol SysAD bus and Supports DDR SDRAM

    all they have to have is GIMP for IRIX ICC'd and most people would be happy for Bitmap manipulation

    lots of render's work under IRIX so thats not a problem

    the problem is the back end Farm that now EVERYONE uses Linux for on el'cheapo AMD/Intel box's SGI used to live here and now they got shoved out by Linux

    they are doing the right thing extend product range and work on getting Linux on decent hardware so they can sell it to their customers

    pity Itanium turned out such a PIG

    I just hope SGI are doing their own motherboards (-;

    regards

    john jones