From: Simon Hayhurst (simon++at++cthulhu.engr.sgi.com)
Date: 04/07/2000 10:50:32
Thomas,
The Origin2200 is a deskside machine, and as such only has a single
card-cage, and that card-cage can only accept CPU cards, not graphics cards.
The card-cage however, can be transferred into a larger rack, and have a
graphics card-carge added above it, transforming it into a single rack
Onyx2.
Alternatively, your sales rep can arrange for a trade-in of the deskside
Origin for a deskside Onyx2 if that is more attractive (note though, that a
deskside Origin2000 can have 8 CPUs, and a deskside Onyx2 only has space for
4 CPUs).
Ciao,
Simon
-----Original Message-----
From: Angus Dorbie [mailto:dorbie++at++sgi.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 7:56 PM
To: Thomas Klinedinst
Cc: info-performer++at++sgi.com
Subject: Re: Performer on Origin 2200
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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