[geeks] SGI Fuel... again

[Bjorn Ramqvist]

Today I got to borrow a Fuel workstation for a few days. Nice machine.
Very nice.

The exterior looks exactly like in the picture, but it has a nice
intense blue led on front instead of the usual "Octanish" lightbulb
colored light. Looks way cool. :-)
The plastic is a little bit dissapointing. It's not that "hard plastic"
like on the Octane or Indigo, rather like the teal (and purple?)
Indigo2. Difficult to expalin, but it's definitly different. :-)

I haven't opened up the cover on this baby, yet. My access to a digicam
is also very limited, but I'll try to get hold of one.
I'm borrowing it from SGI until next Thursday, but I'll be on vacation
until then and in the meantime a couple of users are testing their CAE
applications on it.

Oh, and it's fast. Waaaay faster than our 175MHz and 300MHz Octanes.

Here are the outputs from hinv and gfxinfo:


fuel 1# hinv -v

1 600 MHZ IP35 Processor
CPU: MIPS R14000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.3
FPU: MIPS R14010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 2.3
CPU 0 at Module 001c01/Slot 0/Slice A: 600 Mhz MIPS R14000 Processor
Chip
(enabl
ed) 
  Processor revision: 2.3. Scache: Size 4 MB Speed 300 Mhz DDR  Tap 0xa
Main memory size: 1024 Mbytes
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 4 Mbytes
Memory at Module 001c01/Slot 0: 1024 MB (enabled)
  Bank 0 contains 512 MB (Premium) DIMMS (enabled)
  Bank 1 contains 512 MB (Premium) DIMMS (enabled)
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL12160, low voltage differential
  Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL12160, single ended
  CDROM: unit 4 on SCSI controller 1
IOC3 serial port: tty3
IOC3 serial port: tty4
IOC3 parallel port: plp1
Graphics board: V10
Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, module 001c01, pci 4
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4215, device 4630) pci slot 1
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4265, device 3) pci slot 4
  PCI Adapter ID (vendor 4545, device 22530) pci slot 5
HUB in Module 001c01/Slot 0: Revision 2 Speed 200.00 Mhz (enabled)
IP35prom in Module 001c01/Slot n0: Revision 6.105
USB controller: type OHCI

fuel 5# /usr/gfx/gfxinfo 

Graphics board 0 is "ODYSSEY" graphics.
        Managed (":0.0") 1280x1024 
        BUZZ version B.1
        PB&J version 1
        32MB memory
                Banks: 2, CAS latency: 3
         Monitor 0 type: SGX 512
        Channel 0:
         Origin = (0,0)
         Video Output: 1280 pixels, 1024 lines, 85.00Hz (1280x1024_85)
fuel 6#


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Bjvrn Ramqvist, Hdgglunds Vehicle AB