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SGI launches R16000
nkrgovic writes " SGI has just launched a new CPU - the long expected R16000. The new CPU works on 700MHz, has 4MB secondary cache and more goodies.
For now the new CPU is only used in SGI's Fuel workstations, but we should expect to see it pretty soon in SGI's Origin servers as well. With new high density compute nodes this should make the Origin's the fastest supercomputing server per square foot."
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I hate to say it, but sgi hardware has been underpowered for years. Affortable bsd based solutions have made sgi's proprietary hardware obsolete.
The problem is the mips cpu. Even the new r16000 is much too little, too late. Clocking at only 700mhz, it does not stand a chance against the pentium4, athlon, and celeron chips of today which are clocked far above 1 ghz (even the g4 can probably run circles around it!). A good example of the failure of mips is to look at the nintendo64, a video game system developed which uses a mips processor. It was so slow and underpowered that the playstation, which has been out for 2 years before the n64, still had better and smoother graphics. The n64 should have been the final nail in sgi's coffin.
Sgi's main customer, hollywood, has steadily been moving to bsd based platforms for rendering and production. I doubt this new chip will solve the main problem assosiated with sgi: enourmous costs for the hardware as well as the support. SGI's proprietary OS, irix, is not common or standard and experts in irix are expensive and hard to come by.
PC's running bsd are still a far greater value than expensive sgi hardware.
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I just don't get it, which makes sense since I'm not a CPU designer or fab engineer. But RISC CPUs (like MIPS and Alpha) should be able to run at much faster clock speeds than the CISC-based x86 architectures.
RISC means Reduced Instruction Set. So, simpler and shorter processing pipelines, less transistor complexit, more cache, more registers, no microcode layer. This should allow much faster CPU clocks, like when the Alphas were running at 333 Mhz when x86s were toying with 100 MHz.
So WTF is with 700 Mhz and PPC chips barely cracking 1 Ghz? Is this simply because of a less sophisticated fab process? Anyone know the answer to this?
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