- #SILICON GRAPHICS ONYX 2 SERIAL#
- #SILICON GRAPHICS ONYX 2 UPGRADE#
- #SILICON GRAPHICS ONYX 2 LICENSE#
#SILICON GRAPHICS ONYX 2 SERIAL#
Interconnection fabric to link nodes (NUMAlink).The resulting concept is called Scalable Shared Memory Multiprocessor (S2MP). Scalable Origin 2000 SystemsĪside from higher performance among the design goals were increased scalability and modularity in comparison to previous SMP designs.
#SILICON GRAPHICS ONYX 2 LICENSE#
This is not only a marketing trick as Alexis Cousein points out in : " PROM changes, and a different part number (readable by IRIX) - to comply with export license restrictions, the SGI 2100 machines can *not* be shipped in a configuration that enables connecting them to an Origin 2000!" (Message-ID: ).
#SILICON GRAPHICS ONYX 2 UPGRADE#
The upgrade path from this system is somewhat limited. Configurations Origin 2100ĭeskside system without router support, 2-8 MIPS processors. The racks still have enourmous size but the nice styling with blue and grey/silver parts make them look less intimidating than the old Challenge systems while still looking very impressing. Regarding the visual design language the Origin 2000 is possibly the best designed server system that Silicon Graphics has ever produced. The IO board differs in the amount and kind of connections made available (IO6 vs.Rackmount systems of both kinds use the same compute modules (no graphics slots), the Onyx 2 has additional graphics modules.Deskside systems differ in the layout of the backplane that has slots for graphics hardware in the Onyx 2, where the Origin 2000 can be upgraded with further CPU boards.The graphics capable Onyx 2 is based on the same technology. The Origin 200 can expand to a maximum of 4 CPUs. The systems use Silicon Graphics’ distributed Scalable Shared-memory MultiProcessing architecture, which is called S2MP.įor lower demands a smaller and less scalable solution is available. They offer superior scalability ranging from 2 CPU deskside systems to large scale rackmount systems consisting of 128 CPUs in a single image system and expandung much further in high end supercomputing environments. Likewise the Onyx 2 is the successor to the Onyx line of graphics workstations. The Origin 2000 family replaced the Challenge and Power Challenge family of servers.