Silicon Graphics Octane2 ("SPEEDRACER")


 
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General Technical Information

HOSTNAME OCTOPUS2
SYSTEM CPU MIPS R12000A @400 MHz 
CACHE (2nd, 1st D/I)
 2 MB, 32 KB / 32 KB
RAM  1 GB (Max.8 GB)
SYSTEM BUS WIDTH
 		64 bit
SCSI BUS 2 x UW SCSI (40 MB/s) Qlogic QL1040B chips
OPTION BUS 4 x XIO slots
GRAPHICS V6, 24-plane 1280x1024 @96Hz
DISPLAY
 Samsung SyncMaster 959NF Monitor
HARD DISK DRIVE 73 GB Ultra160 SCSI 10K RPM Quantum Atlas
CD-ROM DRIVE 24x Teac UltraSCSI
NETWORK Onboard 10/100baseT
AUDIO
 Onboard audio chip, 2 x 16-bit analog stereo I/O, 2 x 24-bit AES-3id I/O and 8 x 24-bit ADAT optical I/O
OS IRIX 6.5.30m
YEAR 2000
SPEED 897 VAX MIPS
COMMENTS IRIX on this machine is very fast.
ESTIMATED PRICE '00 $25,000

Hinv information


1 400 MHZ IP30 Processor
Heart ASIC: Revision F
CPU: MIPS R12000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.5
FPU: MIPS R12010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
Main memory size: 1024 Mbytes
Xbow ASIC: Revision 1.4
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
  Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
  CDROM: unit 6 on SCSI controller 1
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2
IOC3 parallel port: plp1
Graphics board: V6
Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, pci 2
Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 12.0, number 1

History and other comments

This system was imported from Germany in February 2005. I have no information about its origin. This is my fifth SGI machine.

Octopus2 is a very nice desktop computer, but unfortunately it makes a lot of noise (the same problem exists for all Octanes I think). Octopus2 inherated the special air cooled computer cabinet I built for Octopus, to get the noise level down.

This computer is definately my fastest and most useful *NIX box. The MIPS R12000A processor provides enough CPU power to seriously use Mozilla 1.X and OpenOffice 1.X, which IMHO are quite heavy applications for an older computer. The floating point performance is also good in this computer. I would recommend a system like this to anyone who wants to give IRIX a go. 

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Last updated:  19-3-2009