I've had my Indigo2 for quite some time, and I've never had *any* trouble with it. A friend of mine has three; an Indy, and Indigo and an O2, also without any problems...
Are you nuts? Have you *seen* any of it's output? Renderman is great too, but sheesh.
"Open source it!"
Get real. It's a real product for real projects for making real money. If you can't afford it, it's out of your league. Now go download Doom and pipe down. (here's a hint. Build the cost into your next professional 3D job)
"It's bloated UNIX/Windoze ware!"
Try again. It's just about the best 3D application on the planet. SoftImage isn't too bad and Lightwave is pretty cool too. But I suspect that some people lack experience with these except for the broken warez copies they run at home on their Celerons.
Hope it doesn't suck as much as the 2nd edition. I'm a die-hard fan of the 1st edition, personally. It was a great system.
Anyone, ANYONE out there have the rulebook to "Top Secret" first edition? If you do, PLEASE contact me... I've been trying to find one for ages to replace my lost one... I miss that game!
There's a huge installed base of Irix customers that won't be migrating to Wintel architecture just because it's the new thing - the high end gear will remain on MIPS for the forseeable future, and that's where Irix will remain. Linux makes absolute sense - give it the features they need to make it compatible with Irix and use it on Wintel. In the process, be a cool company by adding to Linux.
The non-linear editing software is second to none. Avid Illusion. Houdini. Pandemoneum. nTitle. All are used together to create your work. It's not so much that they're incredible (although some of the effects have yet to be seen in the PC world) - it's just that an SGI will do the work, and keep on doing it. It won't crash. It's made for film resolution work. That's why they use it in Hollywood.:)
You have to be patient. Check out a company called Phobos. It's basically a PC NIC, but in an EISA format for the SGI. Most cost $695.
I have one at home myself, and it's one of my favorite computers. With the High Impact option (soon to upgrade to Maximum Impact) and a Cosmo Compression board it does non-linear video editing and sound production extremely well. It's also phenomenal at 3D graphics - where I'm sorry, but no other computer can touch it in it's class.
The Power Indigo2 (R10K/195) is a formiddable machine even by today's standards. The nearest competitor is a higher end Octane MXI - which the Indigo2's served as a pre-cursor. Of course the Octane wins with it's switched crossbar, but still...
Remember, these machines are VERY highly tuned for OpenGL and 3D graphics. They were used to make Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park... For good reason.
I'm not saying they're current to today's technology though, in many respects. They have Fast-SCSI and 10-Base-T builtin. I already upgraded mine to 100-Base-T. I doubt I'll do much with the SCSI. I'll use the Sun with the MultiPack RAID in the corner instead.;>
I love my Indigo2, and you'll have to pry it out of my cold dead fingers before I give it up.
If it was really the weather, would not the other Microsoft sites have gone down too? Come on! That's total B.S.
Not to mention, if you wanted to "showcase" this thing properly, wouldn't you give it every benefit of doubt by making it UPSed, constantly monitored, etc.? There's a lot riding on the box (to them) so I would think they'd have really kept it going.
Sounds more like they dropped a box off somewhere and never looked back.
Router problems. Ha. How does the Internet work again?;>
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Renderman is indeed better than Maya's - the way I typed that one sentence made it seem the other way around.
I've had my Indigo2 for quite some time, and I've never had *any* trouble with it. A friend of mine has three; an Indy, and Indigo and an O2, also without any problems...
"The Maya renderer is the weak spot..."
Are you nuts? Have you *seen* any of it's output? Renderman is great too, but sheesh.
"Open source it!"
Get real. It's a real product for real projects for making real money. If you can't afford it, it's out of your league. Now go download Doom and pipe down. (here's a hint. Build the cost into your next professional 3D job)
"It's bloated UNIX/Windoze ware!"
Try again. It's just about the best 3D application on the planet. SoftImage isn't too bad and Lightwave is pretty cool too. But I suspect that some people lack experience with these except for the broken warez copies they run at home on their Celerons.
Signed, grumpy.
RENDERING. Not porting Maya. Big difference. ;>
Anyone, ANYONE out there have the rulebook to "Top Secret" first edition? If you do, PLEASE contact me... I've been trying to find one for ages to replace my lost one... I miss that game!
Hmmmm...
Try threads and message passing... ;>
...that the LinuxPPC machine is up long enough to run a guestbook. You go, guys! :)
There's a huge installed base of Irix customers that won't be migrating to Wintel architecture just because it's the new thing - the high end gear will remain on MIPS for the forseeable future, and that's where Irix will remain. Linux makes absolute sense - give it the features they need to make it compatible with Irix and use it on Wintel. In the process, be a cool company by adding to Linux.
One BUYS the software. You know, it's commercial...
You have to be patient. Check out a company called Phobos. It's basically a PC NIC, but in an EISA format for the SGI. Most cost $695.
Umm, what was my password on NYT again? ;>
If the NT line disappeared tomorrow, it would affect SGI not one bit, rest assured.
The Power Indigo2 (R10K/195) is a formiddable machine even by today's standards. The nearest competitor is a higher end Octane MXI - which the Indigo2's served as a pre-cursor. Of course the Octane wins with it's switched crossbar, but still...
Remember, these machines are VERY highly tuned for OpenGL and 3D graphics. They were used to make Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park... For good reason.
I'm not saying they're current to today's technology though, in many respects. They have Fast-SCSI and 10-Base-T builtin. I already upgraded mine to 100-Base-T. I doubt I'll do much with the SCSI. I'll use the Sun with the MultiPack RAID in the corner instead. ;>
I love my Indigo2, and you'll have to pry it out of my cold dead fingers before I give it up.
Not to mention, if you wanted to "showcase" this thing properly, wouldn't you give it every benefit of doubt by making it UPSed, constantly monitored, etc.? There's a lot riding on the box (to them) so I would think they'd have really kept it going.
Sounds more like they dropped a box off somewhere and never looked back.
Router problems. Ha. How does the Internet work again? ;>
Here comes Redhat 7.0! ;>
I've had it with those cheezy, good for nothing bastards!
Shouldn't that be 64-bit? Alpha? Hello...
Irix will still be top o' the heap on MIPS.
Hopefully in three years, I can retire too...
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Flexibility and portability are two major criterion that you've overlooked. GCC runs on many OSes and with several languages and CPUs.
It's also free. Fast enough. Open.
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