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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/11/07/sony_adds_basic_to_playstation/ They saved 2% import tax in Europe by making their games machine a terrible computer, it's a shame the tax incentive wasn't even higher maybe then we could still run linux on the PS4 without exploits 
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Raere posted:sgi supremacy 💯  
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these aren't just beautiful on the outside. the chassis are quarter inch steel and everything is produced at insanely tight tolerances also no fuckin edge connectors. it's all custom-made compression-connectors for gigabit speeds with 1990s technology. no fuckin buses in here bob. it's all cross-bar switches. your peripheral cards have a direct link to every other system device. there are add-on cages for PCI-X cards. an entire PCI-X bus driven off one connector to the SGI's internal switch amazing hardware and also hilariously overpriced
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:these aren't just beautiful on the outside. the chassis are quarter inch steel and everything is produced at insanely tight tolerances i had an octane and it was 80 loving pounds. but yeah, the motherboard and graphics hardware could all be removed by sliding them out the back of the case (with a stern warning from SGI to never touch or let anything touch the compression connectors). the hard drives were on sleds that could be slid out the front IIRC. it had a lockbar that could be locked with a padlock so companies could keep sticky-fingered employees from removing anything (like the $10k graphics hardware). kinda wish i hadn't gotten rid of it, but i don't have anywhere to put it and the accompanying ~20" CRT monitor so v  v
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carry on then posted:imagine, if you will, the sound of a thousand orchestras tuning up, followed shortly by the sound of a thousand jets taking off why
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graph posted:why cell architecture was popular for a hot minute before gpgpu came out
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Doc Block posted:i had an octane and it was 80 loving pounds. the rest dying out is no great mystery (if anything strange that sun made it as long as they did), but sgi sort of was a real loss. did a nokia before nokia pretty much it wouldn't have been that weird an undertaking to try to slide into the market sector where the mac pro existed back when it existed
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Silver Alicorn posted:cell architecture was popular for a hot minute before gpgpu came out mm, got it
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:the rest dying out is no great mystery (if anything strange that sun made it as long as they did), but sgi sort of was a real loss. did a nokia before nokia pretty much sgi had some great engineering but they treated customers like dogshit, and their sales/pricing models left something to be desired they started as a high-end workstation vendor, nearly died once, and accidentally stumbled into enterprise / hpc as a business, at which they were quite successful. they then flushed that down the toilet because they became convinced that linux and itanium were the future, and their existing (successful!) products didn't matter. ironically Sun's 90s and 2000s success was largely driven by technology licensed from SGI. the "enterprise" series were all sgi/cray fabric technology implemented for sparc and solaris instead of mips and irix Cybernetic Vermin posted:it wouldn't have been that weird an undertaking to try to slide into the market sector where the mac pro existed back when it existed that was sgi's original market. they thought they would rule the world with photoshop and alias|wavefront on irix, selling $100k-$200k workstations (in today's money). they were wrong they tried to revive their long-dead workstation business with $10k-20k windows systems later. turned out that was also not a market that existed.
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Silver Alicorn posted:cell architecture was popular for a hot minute before gpgpu came out also compared to other 8 (7?) core solutions it was really cheap.
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ya the cell was real good at compute for the time/price. they shipped with a folding@home screensaver for awhile too, but were so drat loud it's not surprising it didn't get used
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:
SGI workstations were so expensive that, on some of them, you could install two GPUs, not so that you could do some SLI/Crossfire type thing (although there were SGI systems that supported something similar to that too), but so that you could have an additional monitor connected to it and an additional keyboard, mouse, etc., and two people could be logged in and using it separately at the same time. that way you only needed to buy one workstation per two users instead of one workstation apiece.
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SGI stuff
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Boiled Water posted:i'm that scene from silicon valley where the team is touring a datacenter and a guy with a ponytail points to a spot and says ... see for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uvdPDXaBPc They're not yelling over 100db of fan and wind noise.
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