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my many computers

i have a lot of computers.

depending on how you define a "computer", at last count, i have somewhere between 50 and 70 of them.

i try to maintain most of them in at least a semi-working state, and use many of them for various projects, and for testing software across a range of different operating systems and cpu architectures.


SGI systems

i have several systems made by Silicon Graphics / SGI.

the first one i obtained is an SGI Indy with the following specs:

- CPU: MIPS R4400SC @ 150MHz
- RAM: 128MiB (can hold 256MiB, but i am using the extra RAM in other machines)
- GPU: XZ Graphics (hardware accelerated if not using textures)
this machine is the one i originally wrote my hypercube screensaver on.

i also have an SGI Octane with:
- CPU: 2x MIPS R12000 @ 300MHz
- RAM: 4GiB
- GPU: Odyssey V10

i have an Onyx2 system with:
- CPU: 2x MIPS R12000 @ 400MHz
- RAM: 1280MiB
- GPU: InfiniteReality
This system is currently not fully functioning due to fan tray issues.

i have an Origin350 system with:
- CPU: 4x MIPS R14000 @ 700MHz
- RAM: 1536MiB
This system is missing an internal power cable for the hard drives.

i also have an Altix350 compute node that cannot operate standalone, and must be connected to other nodes that do have that capability using a NUMAlink cable in order to function, and i do not have such a system. the Altix350 is based on an Intel Itanium processor, rather than MIPS. incredibly, despite being a newer architecture, the failure of Itanium has resulted in it being much harder to run modern software and compilers.


this page to be updated with more computers later. and maybe images too!