On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:43:54PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > Yeah, it's a bit of a kludge, but it seems to me that it was a sort of > > 'after the fact' setup. I personally don't think it works all that well. > > I'd rather have a desk-side Onyx3000 than an Origin with a G-brick (Note: > > The G-brick is just an Onyx3000 without any 'cpu modules'). Of course, if > > you need more than 8-16 cpus, then an Origin is the only option, but it's > > still a PITA to manage, in my experience. > > oh... so that's why it's so huge, and still only supports 2 graphics pipes. > the other slots are for CPU boards? Right. The 'G-brick' is really just a deskside Onyx3000 that's been stripped of everything but it's L1 controller and graphics boards. Gabe -- Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu SGI Origin Systems Administrator, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation www.msi.umn.edu