03-22-2002, 03:00 PM
Arthur Dent Wrote:Can you run windows and linux on a Cray II? :lol:SGI stands for Silicon Graphics Inc. They make UNIX bases high end desktops and servers oriented towards the graphics market.
Beowulf? SGI O2 fully loaded with a 21" monitor and a full Gallaleo board attached.??
Alright, I am officially completely out of touch with the high-end computer market.
Dreamworks and other computer animation companies use clusters of them to generate movies like Shrek, Ice Age, Disney shit, etc..... Cool machines,very fast, very powerful for rendering graphics. The O2 is their desktop model.
The Gallaleo I speak of us, is a tablet drawing pad/multi-media interface board.
As for the Cray's, you can hook up a terminal to it. you have step down the Cray to a mainframe and connect to the mainframe because the Cray's processors are so fast. The older ones (pre-1990) had to be submersed in pools of liquid Freon to keep the tempature down that was generated from the processors. They were also the size of a large panel cargo van. Nice shit if you want to design fighter planes and cars from scratch. otherwise not worth investing $5 Million into them.
Have a great day!