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• Origin300/3000 Series: Overview and Architecture

• Fuel Workstation Hardware Overview, Buyers Guide, Technical Resources and Part Numbers List

• O2 Workstation Architecture and Overview

• O2+ Workstation Datasheet (PDF)

• O2 Workstation Unified Memory Architecture Whitepaper

• O2 Workstation Digital Media Whitepaper

• Melting the ICE (image and video processing on O2)

• O2 Rackmount Data Sheet

• Octane Workstation [SGI's Original OCTANE Article]

• Matthew Finbow's Octane Information page (local archive)

• Origin200/2000 Server: my own introduction plus SGI's original Technical Overview

• Origin Servers Technical Report (tar.gz archive of several PDFs)

• Origin and Onyx2 Theory of Operations Manual

• Origin2000: A ccNUMA Highly Scalable Server (240K PDF)

• Evaluating the Memory Performance of a ccNUMA System, by Uros Prestor

• Origin2000: Hypercube Connectivity within ccNUMA Architecture (210K PDF)

• Origin2000: Origin System Design Methodology and Experience: 1M-gate ASIC's and Beyond (72K PDF)

• Origin2000: System Overview of the SGI Origin 200/2000 Product Line (109K PDF)

• ASCI Blue Mountain System Summary: 6144 CPUs, 1500GB RAM, 76TB RAID, 3TFLOPS, etc. (78K PDF)

• Onyx2 Technical Specifications (local Copy)

• Onyx2: The GroupStation in Defense Imaging [Original Large Detailed PDF][later smaller PDF]

• Digital Video Multiplexer (DPLEX) for Onyx2 (69K PDF)

• Onyx2 Digital Media Product Guide

• SGI Digital Media Options Overview: from O2/Octane to Onyx/Origin3000 (270K PDF)

• Silicon Graphics Details MIPS Road Map

• MIPS R12000 Microprocessor and OCTANE System Architecture White Paper

• How to Install an R12000 Upgrade in an R10000 O2 or Octane (10K PDF) [16K Gzipped Poscript] [10K PDF]

• Byte Article on the R12000 [R12000 Microarchitecture Image]

• QED RM7000 Technical Details (217K PDF)

• MIPS R5000 Product Overview (37K PDF)

• Byte Article on the R5000

• SGI General Performance Comparisons (Alias, Maya, 3D graphics, Blender, C-Ray, GIMP, compilation speed, movie processing, etc.)

• SCSI/SAS/FC/SATA Disks Performance Data

• Blender Render Benchmark Results

• C-Ray Raytracing Benchmark Results

• Upgrading an O2 to 600MHz and beyond (also check Mathieu's page)

• 2nd-hand Indy Buyers' Guide

• 2nd-hand Indigo2 Buyers' Guide

• Comparison of O2 and Indigo2

• Comparison of Indigo2 and Octane

• 1GB RAM in R10K Indigo2

• SGI Graphics Performance Comparison Tables (polygon primitives, pixels/sec, Viewperf, etc.)

• HolliDance Benchmark Comparison Results

• SGI Doom Benchmark Results

• SGI Quake1 Benchmark Results (Software and Hardware)

• SGI Quake2 Benchmark Results (Software and Hardware

• 100Mbit FastEthernet Support on Indy, Indigo2, Indigo and ChallengeS

• O2 SPEC95 Performance Comparison

• Comparison of Octane MXE to Deskside Onyx2

• O2 Performance Comparison (simple application tests) for R5K/180 vs. R5K/200.

• Lumis Benchmarks (includes data for O2, Octane and VW320)

• 195MHz R10000 SPEC95 comparison between O2, Indigo2, Octane, Origin200, Origin2000 and Power Challenge

• 250MHz R10000 SPEC95 comparison between O2, Octane and Origin2000

• Octane Single-CPU SPEC95 Performance Comparison

• Octane Dual-CPU SPECfp95 Performance Comparison

• Octane Single vs. Dual CPU SPECfp95 Performance Comparison (covers both 195MHz and 250MHz configurations)

• Origin200 Single-CPU SPECfp95 Performance Comparison

• Origin2000 Single-CPU SPEC95 Performance Comparison

• SGI Bioinformatics Performance Report (R10K/250, R12K/270 and R12K/300 CPU comparisons for various Bio Problems)

• Testing R10000 SPEC-comparison assumptions using performance difference profiling

• Strange I2 XZ/XL Performance Leap for R4K/100 or R4400/150 vs. R4400/200

• Indigo2 SolidIMPACT vs. Compaq Gloria-L

• How not to go about comparing Viewperf graphics performance.

• IMPACT Texture, Graphics and OS Information

• Indy R5000 180MHz SPECfp95 Performance

• Indy R5000 180MHz SPECint95 Performance

• CPU Summary Table (PDF, out of date) [local copy] at the CPU Information Center (out of date)

• Origin300 Datasheet

• Silicon Graphics O2 Digital Video Option (232K PDF)

• O2 Dual Channel Display Option (255K PDF)

• Silicon Graphics DVLink - IEEE 1394 for O2 (205K PDF)

• An explanation of the advantages afforded by QED RM5200 and MIPS R12000 CPUs in O2 (495K PDF)

• Silicon Graphics O2+ (covers R7K/350) (308K PDF) [later version with only R5200/300]

• Single CPU POWER Onyx Deskside Supercomputer

• Onyx Graphics Supercomputers

• Onyx RealityEngine2: Host Integrated Computer Image Generator

• Onyx Real-Time Image Generation

• Onyx RealityEngine2 Triple Keyboard Option

• Reality Station: Advanced Visualization Station

• Onyx VTX Graphics Subsystem

• Multi-Channel Option: VTX and RealityEngine Graphics

• Multi-Channel Option (RealityEngine2)

• Audio/Serial Option: Onyx and Challenge Family Systems

• IRIS Performer: A Simulation Oriented Software Development Environment

• IRIS Crimson

• RealityEngine: Host Integrated Computer Image Generator

• RealityEngine: Visual Simulation

• RealityEngine: Virtual Reality

• RealityEngine: Image Processing

• RealityEngine: Video/Film

• Sirius Video: Broadcast-Quality Digital Video

• Indigo2 IMPACT Product Guide

• Indigo2 IMPACT: Molecular Modeling

• Indigo2 IMPACT: Post-Production

• Indigo2 IMPACT: Manufacturing

• Indigo2 IMPACT: A Revolution in AEC

• Indigo2 IMPACT: Boosting Productivity of Asset Management Teams

• Indigo2 IMPACT: Solutions for Digital Prepress

• Indigo2 IMPACT: Desktop Solutions for Visual Simulation

• Indigo2 IMPACT: Author Hard, Play Hard (Authoring Tools for the Games of Tomorrow)

• Indigo2 IMPACT: Medical Imaging

• Indigo2 IMPACT Video

• Indigo2 IMPACT Compression

• Silicon Graphics Indigo2: Extreme Computing (Extreme Graphics)

• Indy Desktop Workstation

• Indy Video and Indigo2 Video

• 150MHz R4400 CPU Upgrade

• SGI Indigo

• POWER Series Technical Discussion

• POWER Series StereoView

• POWER Series I/O Subsystem

• IRIS 4D Series VGXT

• The IRIS-4D GT Series

• The IRIS 4D/300 Series

• Elan & XS Graphics Subsystems (IRIS VME Series)

• Personal IRIS and Data Station Server 4D/35

• Personal Iris: The 4D/30 and 4D/35

• Personal IRIS: Computing and Graphics Options

• Personal IRIS: Expanding the Personal Iris

• IRIS Impressario 1.1: Printing and Scanning

• SGI rises from the ashes (USA Today) (heh, this didn't age well I guess...)

• New SGI Jolt Technology for Altix UV Extends Shared Memory to Unprecedented Scale - Advances Core Scale 100x and Memory Scale 500x

• SGI Unveils Altix UV, the World's Fastest Supercomputer [product site]

• SGI Unveils Octane III Personal Supercomputer [Home Page | Atom | i7 XEON | i7 XEON Graphics Workstation | PDF]

• SGI Further Opens Its OpenGL Contributions. Free Software Foundation and Khronos Group Both Herald New License of Industry Standard Graphics Software

• SGI Launches First Entry In New Generation of Visualization Solutions

• SGI Builds World's Largest FPGA Supercomputer, Boosts Nucleotide Query Performance by More Than 900 Times Over 68-Node Cluster

• NASA Relies on SGI Technology in America's Quest to Successfully Return to Space. As Part of Agency's 'Return to Flight' Initiative, NASA Centers Rely on Some of World's Most Advanced Computers to Maximize Mission Safety

• Flight of Discovery: With help from SGI technology, NASA is ready to send America back into space.

• New Deskside Silicon Graphics Prism System Offers Double the Memory of IBM and HP Systems. Starting Under $8,500, New Visualization System Arms Linux Users with Twice the Data Size to Tackle Today's Complex Problems

• Avalanche of Industry-Leading Software Now Available on Silicon Graphics Prism. New Breakthrough 64-bit Visualization Joins Computational Applications Available Across Technical and Creative Industries

• Defense Department's Most Powerful Supercomputer at ASC MSRC Supported by SGI and Brocade 4 Gigabit Storage Area Network. State-of-the-Art SAN Provides DoD with Tremendous Improvement in Data Retrieval Times

• SGI Altix Surpasses Competitors by up to Eight Times in New HPC Challenge Benchmark Tests. Altix Dominates 64-Processor Servers from IBM, Cray and Sun, While 1,008-Processor Altix Captures Lead in Three Key Tests

• SGI Delivers Industry First: 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel Storage Array. First of Its Kind SGI InfiniteStorage TP9700 Speeds Access and Simplifies Management for Data-Intensive Environments

• SGI Doubles Density of High-End Altix Server. New Altix 3700 Bx2 Ratchets Up Performance and Cost-Efficiency with Twice the Bandwidth, Half the Footprint of Flagship System

• One Giant Leap: How NASA, SGI and Intel managed to build and deploy history's most powerful supercomputer in 15 blistering weeks.

• NASA, SGI and Intel Build and Deploy 'Columbia' in Record Time: New Supercomputer World's Most Powerful. 10,240-CPU Altix Supercomputer Fully Productive in Only 15 Weeks Due to Dedicated Effort from Government and Industry

• NASA's Columbia Supercomputer is World's Fastest. NASA, SGI and Intel Achieve Record Performance on 10,240-CPU Altix System Deployed at NASA Ames

• Nasa powers up with supercomputer

• OpenGL 2.0 Unleashes the Power of Programmable Shaders. OpenGL Shading Language Enables Software Developers to Program Freely Across Hardware Based on Premier Application Interface

• BBC Broadcast Installs SGI InfiniteStorage NAS Solution for New Tapeless Environment in Broadcast

• SGI Unveils Breakthrough Support for up to 256 Processors on SGI Altix Systems Running on Single Linux Kernel. Availability of New Large-Scale Systems Announced as SGI Altix Maintains Lead in HPC Performance Benchmarks

• Silicon Graphics Fuel and Tezro Visual Workstations Raise Price/Performance Bar with Faster MIPS Engine. Workstations Driven by New MIPS R16000A Processor Deliver 25 Percent Boost in Price/Performance as SGI Extends Visualization Lead

• SGI Attacks High-Growth Midrange Technical Computing Market with New Linux OS-Based Server. SGI Takes Aim At Sun Solaris, IBM AIX and HP-UX Proprietary Systems Based on the UNIX OS With Up To 50% Price Advantage And 75% Performance Increase

• SGI Triples Backup and Restore Record, Scalable Technology Protects Large Data Environments. Company Collaborates With Brocade, LEGATO, LSI Logic Storage Systems and StorageTek to Successfully Complete Benchmark

• Harnessing the Data Tsunami through the Power of Visualization (feature article on Onyx4 and Tezro)

• SGI Introduces the Most Powerful Advanced Visualization System at Radical new Entry Price Points. New Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision System Delivers Eight Times the Performance at One-Fifth the Price of Industry-Leading SGI Onyx InfiniteReality System

• SGI Introduces Superior Desktop Performance and Reliability with new Silicon Graphics Tezro. New Visual Workstation Incorporates a High-Bandwidth Architecture and Quad-Processing to Provide the Most Powerful Desktop Solution

• SGI Onyx 350 Systems New levels of price/performance, affordability, and modularity for the most capable visualization system on the planet [with IR4 gfx] [with IP gfx]

• New SGI Origin 350 Midrange Technical Server Rounds Out Company's Expanded HPC Server Offering. New Product Delivers on Need for Cost-Effective, High-Productivity Solutions

• SGI Boosts Price/Performance on Silicon Graphics Fuel Visual Workstation Family up to 25% - New Silicon Graphics Fuel Now Available with MIPS R16000 700 MHz Processor

• SGI Solutions Deliver the Power Behind Weta Digital's The Two Towers: Second Film in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Uses SGI Origin Servers and SGI Data Migration Facility Software To Manage More Than 200TB, Moving 20 Million Data Files

• SGI Altix 3000 Named 'Product of the Year' by Editors of Linux Journal Magazine. Industry's First True HPC Linux System Maintains Momentum With Top Honors in Annual Editors' Choice

• New SGI Altix 3000 Blows Away Competition with Across-the-Board Dominance in Performance

• SGI's New Linux Servers and Superclusters Shatter Scalability and Performance Records

• Scaling Linux to New Altitudes: Global Shared Memory with the SGI Altix 3000 Family of Servers and Superclusters

• SGI Leads Supercomputing Renaissance. New SGI Shared-Memory Systems Deliver Breakthroughs

• New SGI High-Productivity, High-Density System Makes Supercomputing more Deployable. New Model of SGI Origin 3000 Supercomputer Quadruples Capacity and Capability per Square Foot

• SGI Demonstrates the Latest Developments in Advanced Visualization at SIGGRAPH 2002

• SGI Launches a Breakthrough in Visual Realism Fidelity [IR4 Feature Article] [IR4 Summary (140K PDF)]

• NASA Upgrades Space Agency's Largest Supercomputer, Increasing the Node Power of its Grid Computing Initiative

• SGI Introduces Faster Microprocessor Across Product Lines. SGI Servers, Workstations, and Graphics Supercomputers Deliver up to 37% More Application Performance with New MIPS R14000A Processor

• SGI Introduces Silicon Graphics Fuel Visual Workstation, the First in a New Generation of Powerful Desktop Solutions

• Fuel Tech Specs [Onyx300 Home Page]

• Fuel Datasheet (PDF Document)

• Benefits of VPro™ Graphics Architecture with 12-Bit Component Support

• Onyx300: SGI Introduces a Powerful, Compact and Economical Visualization System

• SGI Announces the World's Fastest Graphics-InfinitePerformance Graphics. SGI Trumps Competition with 2.3 Times the Performance and the Best Interactive Graphics Performance at Any Price Point [Tech Info]

• SGI Launches A New Era for Graphics: Visual Area Networking. New Vision, Products Will Enable Universal Access to Advanced Visualization Using Any Computing Device, Across Existing Networks

• VizServer 2.0: SGI Launches Software that Brings Collaborative Visualization Capabilities of Graphics Supercomputers to Any Client Device. OpenGL Vizserver Expands the Reach and Impact of High-Performance Graphics Computing to Allow Visualization Anywhere

• SGI Technology Powers Weta Digital's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy - Hundreds of SGI Visual Workstations and Storage Products Create and Manage Up to 100 Terabytes of Data

• SGI Extends High-Performance SGI Origin Server Line to Offer Most Powerful Unix Computer at Any Price Point. New SGI Origin 300 Server Is World's Only Compact, Modular Supercomputer

• SGI Architectural Direction to Address Customer Scalability Needs

• SGI Systems Surpass Competitors in Delivered Performance. SGI Origin 3000 Series Servers with New MIPS R14000 Processors Lead Industry with Benchmark Results

• SGI: Unleashing the Modular Computing Revolution

• SGI Launches Revolutionary Line of Modular Computers--Introduces First Systems to Employ Patented NUMAFlex Technology: SGI Origin 3000 Series Servers And SGI Onyx 3000 Series Visualization Systems Offer Performance, Custom Configurations, Resiliency And Overall Investment Protection For A Wide Range Of Business, Scientific, Medical And Media Users

• SGI Debuts Breakthrough Modular Computing Technology: "Brick" Technology Promises to Lead High-Performance Computing into New Era of Unprecedented Performance and Flexibility

• Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) Selects SGI Origin 3000 Series as Broadband Server for Next Generation Entertainment Demonstration

• Pixar Selects Silicon Graphics Octane2 High-Performance Visual Workstaions as Production Platform

• SGI is Preferred Provider of Content Creation Workstations and Servers for Industrial Light & Magic (ILM): ILM and SGI Continue JEDI Collaboration, Further

• SGI Introduces New Octane2 System with more Visualization Power than any other UNIX Desktop

• SGI Expands VPro Graphics Family

• SGI Brings Unparalleled Workstation Performance To Windows NT and Linux Users. Company Unveils Next-Generation Intel Processor-based Workstations

• SGI Introduces New Feature-rich VPRO Graphics for Windows NT, Linux and IRIX Desktop Systems. Company Delivers Computer Industry's First Hardware-Accelerated Graphics for Linux with New IA-32 Workstations

• O2 to End Production August 1st 2002, available thereafter via remanfactured side, support until 2007 [affected product codes]

• Onyx2 Technical Report (1.3MB PDF)

• O2 Technical Report V1.0 (2MB gzipped PDF)

• Challenge/Onyx Diagnostic Roadmap (original 600K PDF)

• Infinite Reality Technical Report [355K PDF]

• RealityEngine in Visual Simulation (Technical Overview)

• Indigo2 and POWER Indigo2 Technical Report [457K tar.gz | README]

• The Personal IRIS: A Technical Report

• Posting Advice for eBid/eBay Sellers (includes general packaging advice, how to get the most from UK shipping services and how/where to obtain free packaging materials, plus lots of other posting hints/tips).

• How to Use VLC to Extract flv Movies From YouTube, by Jonathan Mortimer

• My Workstation OS: Irix, by Robert Mertling-Blake

• Video Processing with IMPACT Compression

• Using Fibre Channel Boards in SGI Workstations, by Chris Kalisiak

• The Prisa NetFX GIO64 FibreChannel Card: Making it work in an Indigo2, by Jerome Levy

• Using IDE/SCSI Adapters in SGI Systems, by Alexander Oberdrster and Ian Mapleson

• Cray Research Shows Path To Unified High-Performance Architecture

• The Cray 1 Supercomputer, Science Now, 1982

• RealityEngine: A Dose of Silicon Reality, International Broadcasting, May 1993.

• Silicon Graphics and Real-time Broadcast Graphics at the BBC.

• Silicon Graphics Indigo2, Personal Computer World, May 1993.

• Silicon Graphics Indy, Personal Computer World, September 1993.

• Review of the Silicon Graphics Indy, Byte Magazine, January 1994.

• The Dream Machine, UNIX Systems, December 1991 (Indigo).

• Budget Risc: Silicon Graphics' Iris Indigo, CADCAM, October 1991.

• Personal Iris 4D/25, Personal Computer World, September 1990.

• What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory, by Ulrich Drepper, Red Hat Inc. A discussion of memory subsystems used in commodity computer systems, cache structures and code optimisation.

• UNIX Administration Course, by Ian Mapleson

• Christopher Spry's Indy Administration Page

• Challenge/Onyx Miscellaneous Hints and Tips

• Disk and Filesystem Administration (includes info on how to install IRIX 6.2, disk cloning, etc.)

• How to Remove a Fuel Graphics Module

• CDROM/CDRW Hints and Tips

• How to Install IRIX 6.5

• How to Install IRIX 6.5 Across a Network

• How to connect an Indy to the Internet via Modem [local copy], by Jonathan Mortimer.

• Setting Up a Cable Modem on SGI/IRIX: HOWTO, by James Thornton

• How to clear the NVRAM password on an Onyx/Challenge, by Michael Ross and Chris Patterson

• Sirius Video Installation Guide (PDF), supplied by Lyle Bickley

• Sirius Video Programming and Configuration Guide

• Miscellaneous System Problems

• Frank G. Fiamingo's UNIX System Administration Manual (SunOS)

• Past Echos the Future (Part I) - Notes on SGI / IRIX Stuff (John Hartley)

• Past Echos the Future (Part II) - O350 / Chimera Stuff... (John Hartley)

• SGI Stuff, by Gerhard Lenerz. Excellent and efficient knowledge base on SGIs, easy to navigate and fast.

• SiliconBunny, loads of excellent information and resources on SGIs, especially OS information, security, FAQs, etc.

• Jodeman's SGI & Stuff

• Diego's Magneto Optical Drive FAQ for SGI/IRIX Systems

• NetBSD/sgimips Project (NetBSD running on O2; Indy port coming soon) [announcement]

• FutureTech WWW Links (includes many performance-related links) [also many dead links atm]

• Exclusive Coverage of SGI 2003 New Product Line - Part 1 - Overview, an article by fxguide.com on the new SGI Tezro and Onyx4 systems, with particular focus on digital compositing and effects using Flint, Flame, Inferno, etc.

• SGI Octane LED lightbar modification, by Kurt A. Huhn

• The SGI320 Visual Workstation, by Milton Adamou [local mirror]

• Reconditioning a failed Indigo2 powersupply [Local Copy], by Tony Mantler

• Nicoya's SGI Video Mode Page [Local Copy] (extra video formats for IMPACT Indigo2 and MGRAS Octane), by Tony Mantler

• Handbook of hardware pinouts, cables schemes and connectors layouts

• Brent Bates' list of 3rd-party hardware suppliers for SGIs (legacy page, but still interesting/useful info)

• Majix' Obsolete Page

• lurkertech - a phenomenal resource on video topics, by Chris Pirazzi, including:
  • The Lurker's Guide to Video, an essential source of information for anyone writing video applications on SGI systems.

  • Video I/O on Linux: Lessons Learned from SGI, a guide to writing a good video API for Linux, with reference to work done at SGI on video APIs for IRIX systems.

  • Uncompressed Y'CbCr Video in QuickTime Files (off-site link, but Chris is responsible for much of it so I'm including the link)

  • Square and Non-Square Pixels

  • Fields: Why Video Is Crucially Different from Graphics

  • Fields, F1/F2, Interleave, Field Dominance And More

  • Motion JPEG on SGI Systems

  • The Pixel Rosetta Stone: Packings and Colorspaces

  • Displaying In-Memory Video using OpenGL

• How to make a breakout box for Indigo2Video, by Marcus Lindner.

• Simon Pigot's Crimson/PowerSeries/RE Pictures Archive (lots of tech details too) [local mirror]

• SkyWriter's Big Old Nasty SGI Page (excellent pictures of Crimson, SkyWriter, Personal IRIS, Indy, etc.)

• SkyWriter's Crimson/POWER Series CPU-Extraction Trick

• IndyTech, a page of essential details on the Indy, written by Greg Douglas (formerly of Reputable Systems)

• How to upgrade an R5000SC/180MHz (512K) Indy to R5000SC/200MHz (512K), by Bernd Maestling [original page in German]

• How to customise an Indy with an internal CDROM unit, by Bernd Maestling.

• www.irisindigo.com (Wayback), by Eric Dynowski

• The Silicon Graphics Refrigerator Project, by Matthijs Mourits.

• Buying an SGI System FAQ, by David H. Dennis

• This Old SGI, A. J. Corda's excellent page (Wayback) on older SGIs (4D series).

• ZIP/JAZZ utilities and information for SGIs

• The ACARD IDE/SCSI Converter Card

• Indigo Espresso - an IRIS Indigo as a coffee maker!

• Monitor World, a good resource for information on a huge range of monitors (2005 Wayback)

• Pegamento for IRIX, a hardware accelerated image compositing application for SGI systems, by Cesar Blecua.

• Hardware Accelerated Imaging on O2, by Csar Blecua [Local Copy]

• Compiling SGI O2 Video Formats, by Stuart Levy.

• Mozilla Internet Browser for IRIX

• Jahshaka - hardware-accelerated OpenGL-based video/film compositing/special-effects program, written by Jah Shaka

• Jonathan Mortimer's Graphic Arts and Web Design Forum (new site!!)

• MultiTail multiple-file viewing software, by Folkert van Heusden

• SGI's own Linux-for-SGIs site

• SGI's 3rd-party Freeware site

• SGI's Main Freeware/Evaluation Software site

• IRIX DivX HomePage, by Brandon Corey.

• FFMPEG Multimedia System, a freeware audio/video converter and capture tool.

• MPlayer, a freeware movie player, which can exploit SGI hardware to accelerate video processing, eg. full size/rate PAL/NTSC playback on VPro systems.

• Blender, a Free Program for Modeling, Animation, Rendering and Post-Production

• Zoorender, a resources page for Maya.

• The GIMP Home Page (GNU Image Manipulation Program)

• OpenFX, and open-source 3D modelling, animation and rendering system, by Anil Madhavapeddy.

• SGI Heartbeat, by Tony Mantler.

• O2 bigVideoIn Application, from the Developer Toolbox.

• DICOM Introduction and Free Software List, by Chris Rorden.

• dicom2, a free command-line program for processing DICOM files.

• Clear, Efficient Musical Signal Processing in ANSI C, by Alan Freed

• SGI Anonymous FTP sites list (in HTML format)

• UNIX Release History Timeline

• Asset Recovery services at CXTec, contact Erin Laing for details.

• Rise of the Triad for IRIX

• BZFlag

• Index to Multimedia Information Sources

• Origin2000 (or SGI 2000)

• Origin200

• Onyx2

• O2/O2+

• Octane

• Intel-based Visual Workstations (320, 540, 230, 330, 550 and 750)

• Display Options (1600SW, F180, F220)