From: Angus Dorbie (dorbie++at++sgi.com)
Date: 04/05/2000 19:56:09
You can upgrade easily from Origin to ONXY2, you don't need to change
the whole chassis you just swap out a single card cage to give you a
KCAR in one half of one of your racks. The XTOWN I/O to graphics then
comes from an XIO card on one of the CPU cages to the graphics cage. I
don't see how this could be simpler, unless you are out of rack space.
With the video stuff, you need a graphics pipe on which to draw stuff. A
video board doesn't give you any rendering capability so that won't
solve your problem.
Didn't this same question come up a very short time ago?
If you have a half rack with no cage or at least can consolidate the CPU
node boards from one cage to other CPU card cage, then ask your sales
rep for pricing on the KCAR card cage for graphics plus an iR pipe.
Cheers,ANgus.
Thomas Klinedinst wrote:
>
> We have developed a visualization environment which currently uses
> Performer on a multi-pipe Onyx2. We have a customer who needs this
> visualization capability but currently has in place a large Origin
> system. It seems that SGI has made the transition from Origin to Onyx2
> both an expensive and a difficult process in that the chassis must be
> swapped to get any level of graphics capability. I have utilized an
> XT-HD High Definition Video board in an Origin 2200 on another project
> to produce video output at high resolution for display either through a
> projector or video monitor. This output mechanism would be high enough
> resolution if there was a way to direct the Performer output to the
> XT-HD output. Has anyone done this before from a Performer application
> and if so what kind of performance could one expect to get?
>
> Thanks for the help,
> Tom Klinedinst
> Sarnoff Corporation
> tklinedinst++at++sarnoff.com
> 609-734-2624
>
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