[Irinikus]

This is what the dual R8000 node board looks like! (An extremely interesting piece of technology!!!)



Here's the Indigo2 R8000 for comparison purposes:

[hamei]

This is what the dual R8000 node board looks like! (An extremely interesting piece of technology!!!)

I am hoping that note is from Ian, because if SGI can't spell "critical" I will be really ashamed ....

[Irinikus]

I just downloaded the image from a random site!

You never know, it might have been a legitimate spelling error on SGI’s part!

[hamei]

I just downloaded the image from a random site!

You never know, it might have been a legitimate spelling error on SGI’s part!

For some aftermarket guy to put that note on is a nice touch, I can forgive the spelling. But a major computer company selling stuff for tens of thousands of dollars, I would be so ashamed. That would be tacky in the nth :-(

[Irinikus]

That machine belongs to @moid and he did buy the machine from Ian!



I can't really find many pics of this type of PIMM on the web so someone else who has one of these machines will have to confirm this, but in the meantime I'll email Ian.

[hamei]

That machine belongs to @miod ....

Open BSD on an R8k ? Some people are gluttons for punishment !

[Irinikus]

Here’s Ian’s response concerning the label:


> Just one question concerning the Indigo2 R8K that you sold to moid, was the label on the CPU issued by SGI?

Hmm, that's an interesting question, I don't know. I have seen the same label on more than one R8K module, but the module I have atm doesn't have it.

> As the word critical was misspelled as criticle on it!



> @hamei just wants to know whether it was a mistake on SGI’s part.

Could be, but who knows. Actually it's far more likely to be whichever reseller sold them (eg. in the UK for
example that would have been Reality Computing, OCF, Cordnet, etc.), their own techs adding the extra
warning label.

[mapesdhs]

A little FYI; I do of course have the 90MHz boards aswell, but SGI had been planning on a 150MHz release later, which never happened because of the MIPS merger. R10K was about as fast, cheaper/easier to make and easier to clock up (comparatively speaking). Also, R8K was a bit crippled with reduced L2 like it has in Indigo2. Still, it was pretty cool, and I was told by several SGI people that elements of what had been intended for the R8K followon ended up in IA64 (which makes sense given the loss of staff to Intel around that time; Intel's IA64 bluff worked).

I wonder if it's possible to compile an R8K optimised version of Blender for Onyx? That would be amusing.

Ian.

[kshuff]

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They're super-cool, but unfortunately are as rare as chicken teeth!
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Really?...

   

[saq]

I never seriously looked at R8k because in the Indigo2 it is reputed to be significantly less reliable than any of the other options. Did that hold over to Onyx/CHALLENGE as well or does the increased air flow and lack of flex connectors remedy that?

Closest I have ever gotten is my Indigo2 Extreme. At one point it was a R8k/75 until it was some-sort-of-graded to a R4k/200 by SGI (little sticker on the back showing new configuration). Not sure if that is an upgrade, downgrade or crossgrade. Guess it depends on what you were doing with the machine.