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Foil 29 Infrastructure -- Hardware support

From Master Foilset for Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project First Review Review Meeting at Rome Laboratory -- 31 January 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
SGI Onyx SMP
  • 4 R4400 150 MHz CPUs, 1MB secondary cache/CPU, 256 MB RAM
  • 140 Mbit/s ATM interface directly connected to RL via NYNET
  • 20 GB+ disk space, real-time file system support available
  • Display system:
    • Reality Engine with two texture processors
    • maximal supported resolution: 1600x1200 pixels at 60 Hz (~2Mpixel display)
    • suitable monitor installed
A farm of SGI desktop machines for developers, some high-end, some with ATM NIC
Acquisition of new MIPS5K/MIPS10K machines with built rendering support in negotiation phase

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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