Jeff Mottle Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Thought this was good for a chuckle. Memory Express is a local computer supply warehouse for those who like to build their own systems. Pretty much anyone who builds their own system in Calgary goes to Memory Express. I was looking today and found these systems and thought everyone would get a good laugh. http://www.memoryexpress.com/index.php?PageTag=&page=link&memx_menu=314 The prices are in Canadian dollars, but you just have to take 10-12% off to get the US price. (That is another issue I can't believe, the US and CDN dollar are almost at par now!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pradipta Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Jeff, It's a great news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Wow, I don't think I even have the basis for evaluating that Are these current systems? I thought the Itanium platform was pretty much dead. And am I alone in being disappointed that SGI is using such a normal video card? Did anybody else get a chance to use the first generation SGI Windows machines several years ago? They were dual P2s I think, and they had a video card with a name that was something like "Cobalt Blue". We were regular customers so they sent us a prerelease sample and it was amazing. We had it running four demos at once, each taking full-NTSC video input and mapping it to a different animated 3D surface in real time, while outputting to a four-screen wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 wow, for 42 grand I could build a nice workstation, and a small render farm... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 wow, for 42 grand I could build a nice workstation, and a small render farm... But would it have a FireGL X3? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 But would it have a FireGL X3? Yes, running in SLI... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 i remember looking up SLI machines for grins several years ago. it was amusing to think about machines with 100 cpu's, and storage measured in Terabytes. http://www.sgi.com/products/servers/altix/4000/configs.html SGI Altix 4700 Supercomputer Processors: 1.6GHz or 1.66GHz Intel Itanium 2, 6MB or 9MB cache, 533 or 667MHz Front Side Bus support Number of processors 16 to hundreds per system Interconnection between nodes for global shared memory SGI NUMAlink 4 * Fat-tree topology * 6.4GB/sec bidirectional bandwidth per link Memory Up to 32GB DDR2 per module, up to 128TB per system ....i have no idea if you could even use a system like this for a workstation, or if it would just be used for rendering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutaj Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 just imagine the licensing problem if you were using like brazil or another 3rd party rendering app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abicalho Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 They're Itanium machines. There are very few apps developed for them since this was the first 64 bits PC developed by Intel a couple years back. Intel, IBM, HP and some others are still selling Itanium systems. They're used mostly for large scale server solutions and their cost is in the thousands of dollars range. You can see the HP solutions here, although I couldn't find a price tag anywhere: http://www.hp.com/products1/itanium/ Cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Didn't Itanium turn out to be a huge disappointment in performance and price and immediately get obsoleted by AMD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazdaz Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 What a joke. SGI was such an amazing company, with a totaly inept management direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckytohaveher Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 You'd have to be clinically insane to spent that much money on silicon... With dual Opt X2 64-bits, and SLI (they now have 4 way), you'd seriously need to be insane... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 You'd have to be clinically insane to spent that much money on silicon... With dual Opt X2 64-bits, and SLI (they now have 4 way), you'd seriously need to be insane... But how else can you get a 1.6GHz CPU, 4GB of RAM, a FireGL card and a 19" monitor? You can't just go and get all that stuff shipped to you next-day from Newegg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckytohaveher Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 You can't just go and get all that stuff shipped to you next-day from Newegg. Yes, I may have to wait a couple of days, but $17K as a starting point? Besides, I have NO INTEREST in ITANIUM.... For the price, you can buy two of something else... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 Dude, I was joking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckytohaveher Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 I was joking. I know... I just thought I'd run with it! Pretty funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Nichols Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 It is all over for SGI... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/08/silicon_graphics_chapter_11/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianKitts Posted May 8, 2006 Share Posted May 8, 2006 ha haa... titsup huh?? is that a common UK saying that hasn't crossed the seas yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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