[QUOTE=MIPS;28205074]Yep. It's a full-size rack.
Interface is through either ethernet or serial interfaces with a CD drive for loading the OS as well as additional software. With the G-brick you obviously get the advantage of being able to use a desktop to do stuff but you can also do a remote X console albeit sans local graphics acceleration.
What exactly is it capable of? I'm not exactly sure. These systems were designed mainly for extreme computing (the design of the system contains the DNA of Cray who was purchased by SGI years earlier) so probably stuff like cryptography, genome analysis, number crunching, VERY large databases, and simulation. Nowhere in their specs was there anything about games.[IMG]http://bestcasinogamingonline.com/crunk/37/543.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Hmm, i wonder who will bid on this one. Well its like a super computer, but not sure if it's outdated or not.
[QUOTE=Wii Hacker;28214662]I'd stuff each motherboard with 32GB of DDR3, 6-core i7 CPUs, RAID as many SSDs together as possible for speed, and run Folding@Home 24/7.[/QUOTE]
:downs:
yayz minecraft
oh wait - It uses Tape Storage
[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;28209311]Holy fuck it's huge[/QUOTE]
That's what she said.
No version of java since 2002 or so has been released for Irix because nobody bothers to develop for it anymore.
[url=http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=16724514]There were community dicsusions about making a CLI minecraft server though[/url] but nobody wants to bother with it as the main hobbyist developers are in their 40's at least and don't see the point.
I think I see the ramins of a fiber channel disk array at the top of the rack.
If anyone is planning to use this behemoth for gaming, then he or she definitely have a string or two loose in the head.
Wow, the place selling this is only 50 miles away. No shipping charges for me!
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;28234352]If anyone is planning to use this behemoth for gaming, then he or she definitely have a string or two loose in the head.[/QUOTE]
After reading this I now feel compelled to buy this and make it run Crysis.
[QUOTE=bootv2;28239849]good luck on writing an x86-32 emulator on that thing.[/QUOTE]
Didn't someone say it was running a P4 processor?
[QUOTE=Binladen34;28240466]Didn't someone say it was running a P4 processor?[/QUOTE]
it's a MIPS processor fool
[editline]23rd February 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=jetboy;28225379]The [b]shipping[/b] goes over $400.[/QUOTE]
I know, I meant base price without shipping
[QUOTE=bootv2;28240678]I'm sure it's not, I'm fairly sure a p4 can't run parrallel with another 511 p4's. nor does it support up to 256gb RAM[b](it's x86-32 remember? it only supports up to four gb)[/b][/QUOTE]
I completely forgot about that.
x86 emulation on MIPS is....buggy...to put it lightly.
[IMG]http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a166/ballsandy/Computer%20related/P9253136.jpg[/IMG]
You would ahve to port the game so it was optimized for SGI hardware. An attempt was made to do this with the leaked HL2 source code as it still then had OpenGL components to it but when the lead programmer apparently got an email indirectly from Valve, everyone scattered and the project was abandoned.
Also, to remind you all, a reguar full size rack is about six or seven feet tall.
Anyone ever write MIPS assembly? Fun stuff.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;28234352]If anyone is planning to use this behemoth for gaming, then he or she definitely have a string or two loose in the head.[/QUOTE]
But it runs DOOM, you silly!
Is page 3 the phantom page?
All this talk about people using this for hobbies, couldn't the OP just throw it up on one of those forums?
[QUOTE=MacTrekkie;28246512]But it runs DOOM, you silly![/QUOTE]
[img_thumb]http://i909.photobucket.com/albums/ac298/4rawrs4srs/IMG_7653.jpg[/img_thumb]
And it runs Windows 95. Possibly better than the SGI.
[QUOTE=>LEAD22<;28244518]Anyone ever write MIPS assembly? Fun stuff.[/QUOTE]
[url=http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/index.php/MIPS_Pro]MIPS Pro[/url] :smug:
[QUOTE=MIPS;28250774][url=http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/index.php/MIPS_Pro]MIPS Pro[/url] :smug:[/QUOTE]
Both the PS1 and N64 use MIPS processors. The N64 used an R3400i, while the PS1 used a slight variant I believe...
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BuMP.
It sold for a steal: $380.
Being a giant technical idiot, I have to be the one to ask: Could this, with proper modifications, be used in any way to run servers for a game?
now i'm extremely curious about what the person who bought it is going to do with it
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