They had laid off all the good people doing workstations by then, I think they outsourced design/production to ODMs by that time. MIP processors were long in the tooth in 1999, never mind 2007.

Having been at SGI from 1995-2001, I can tell you the reason MIPS sucked wind at that point, was the good ship Itanic sunk Alien and Beast processors.  Those design teams left, and we didn't have much for post R10k, other than respins and shrinks of R10k.  Which were renamed R12k, R14k ...

Beast would have been relevant (near EOL though) in 2007.


On 3/23/23 14:53, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf wrote:

Between 2003 and 2007, I worked with a lot of O2s, Octanes, an 8-way Origin 350, and even a Tezro. I don't miss those days.

I always felt like the design of their workstations was done by the same people who design Playskool toys rather than professional hardware.

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On 3/23/23 1:08 PM, Ryan Novosielski via Beowulf wrote:
Seriously. I have an Indy and an Octane2 laying around. That’s not even an SGI. :-P

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On Mar 23, 2023, at 13:07, Michael DiDomenico <mdidomeni...@gmail.com> wrote:

ack, irix flashbacks... :) fortunately, this machine isn't quite that
old, circa 2013

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 1:02 PM Darren Wise via Beowulf
<beowulf@beowulf.org> wrote:

Hello,

I don't personally have such myself but anything SGI even with today's
exotics Ians about the most knowledgable I know of globally and
seriously dying out within this sector, I hazard a guess your SM board
would be considered quite new compared to other systems.

http://www.sgidepot.co.uk/sgidepot/


Kind Regards,
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Research Engineer, Mechatronics
https://wisecorp.co.uk, .us & .ru

On 23/03/2023 16:51, Michael DiDomenico wrote:
does anyone happen to have an old sgi / supermicro bios for an
X9DRG-QF+ motherboard squirreled away somewhere?  sgi is long gone,
hpe might have something still but who knows where.  i reached out to
supermicro, but i suspect they'll say no.
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