[rescue] SGI, Origin 200, and speed?

[Dave McGuire]

On Apr 28, 2004, at 3:35 PM, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
>>> [ If you have two Origin 200 machines connected by a Craylink cable 
>>> ...]
>>>  ... do you need only one copy of IRIX installed on the HDD? Does 
>>> that
>>> mean that you might not need a disk in the second chassis?
>>
>>    Read my lips:  IT BECOMES ONE COMPUTER. :)
>>
>>    If you put a disk in the second chassis, it will show up as a disk 
>> ON
>> THE OTHER SCSI BUS.  Get it?
>>
>>    You will have one computer with four SCSI buses.  Two ethernet
>> interfaces.  Six PCI slots.  One copy of IRIX on one system disk.
>
> Y'know, that's bloody clever.

   Yes.

> So ... to scale up an Origin 200, you just wheel in a second chassis, 
> hook
> it up, and reboot?

   Yes.

>   Can the second chassis have different specs, like slower
> or faster CPUs?

   Yes.

> I'm beginning to like SGI stuff a lot....

   Yes.

    :-)

      -Dave

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