Tech Specs

Processor Data
Microprocessor 1-2 MIPS® RISC 64-bit R14000A™
Primary Cache 2MB L2 cache
System Configuration
Memory Capacity 256MB-8GB synchronous DRAM (SDRAM)
I/O Bandwidth Crossbar: 1.6GB/sec/port (6 ports, 4 available for XIO™ systems like graphics and end-user options)
XIO Capacity 4 XIO board slots (Silicon Graphics® Octane2™ with VPro™ V6, V10, V8, or V12 graphics requires 2 of the 4 slots)
PCI Capacity Single half-height, dual full-height PCI slots with optional PCI cardcage
Storage Controllers Internal single-ended SCSI controller
External single-ended SCSI controller
External 18GB 10,000 RPM Fast/Wide Ultra SCSI
3.5" 120MB Superdisk floppy drive
20GB 4 mm DAT drive
40X CD-ROM
Digital linear tape
Graphics
Advanced Features Full hardware acceleration of OpenGL® 1.2, GLX™ 1.3, OpenGL ARB imaging extensions
Graphics Memory 32MB graphics memory, including up to 8MB texture memory; V6 and the high-performance V10
128MB graphics memory, including up to 104MB texture memory; VPro V8 and the high-performance VPro V12
Graphics Architecture Integrated vertex processing engine
Integrated image and texture engine
12-bit per component color and alpha, double-buffered
24-bit eye space Z and 8-bit stencil buffers
10-bit digital to analog (DAC) display interface
Multiple concurrent visuals (8-bit window ID)
Hardware Lighting and Shading Flat shading, Gouraud shading, Specular shading with normal interpolation for accurate lighting and specular highlights, Separate specular color (post-texture lighting)
Hardware Texturing 3D textures, texture color tables, texture coordinate clamp, texture LOD bias, texture scale bias, detail texture, pixel texture*
(*with IRIX® 6.5.9 or higher)
Effects Convolution, histogram, color matrix, color table
Hardware accumulation buffer (Octane2 VPro V8, V12)
Quad-buffered stereo support
Perspective-correct texture and color
Per-pixel fog, fog function, fog offset
Line anti-aliasing
Hardware-assisted full-scene anti-aliasing
Blend color, blend logic op, blend minmax, blend subtract
Display Information
Visual Formats 32-bit RGBA (8,8,8,8) double-buffered, 24-bit Z buffer, 8-bit stencil
32-bit RGBA (10,10,10,2) double-buffered, 24-bit Z buffer, 8-bit stencil
48-bit RGBA (12,12,12,12) (Octane2 V6, V10, V8, V12) double-buffered (Octane2 V8, V12) 16 bit Z buffer (Octane2 V12 only)
16-bit RGBA quad-buffered (stereo), 24-bit Z buffer, 8-bit stencil
12-bit Color index, double-buffered, 24-bit Z buffer, 8-bit stencil
12-bit Color index, quad-buffered (stereo), 24-bit Z buffer, 8-bit stencil
8-bit overlay and 8-bit window ID
96-bit (24,24,24,24) hardware accumulation buffer (Octane2 V8, V12)
Display Resolutions From 640x480 at 60 Hz
Up to 1920x1200 pixels at 60 Hz and 72 Hz
More Display Resolutions
Display Options1
Monitors 21" FD Trinitron color monitor standard
24" color monitor option
18" Silicon Graphics® F180 flat panel display option
22" Silicon Graphics® F220 flat panel display option
Graphics Dual Head option (two VPro V10 or two V12 graphics boards); available in a PowerDuo configuration to support two users on the same system

Dual Channel Display option (Octane2 VPro V12)
80MB texture memory available when using this option; can be combined with VPro V12 Dual Head option
Audio/Video
Digital Media Options DMediaPro™ DM21
High-Definition and Standard-Definition Video I/O Option

• Support for all major HD and SD video formats, including:

 - SMPTE 259M and 292M SDI inputs and outputs for video and alpha
 - SD video formats: 480i (NTSC) and 576i (PAL)
 - HD video formats 720p, 1080i, 1080p
 - Video sampling YCrCb 4:2:2 8- or 10-bit, YCrCb 44:2:2:4 10-bit, RGB 4:4:4 8-bit
• Patented real-time color space conversion from RGB to YUV
• Support for full sample rate alpha channel (8 or 10 bits)
• 16x9 or 4x3 aspect ratio
• Supports OpenML™

DMediaPro™ DM5
High-Definition and Standard-Definition Graphics-to-Video Output Option

• Compatible with DMediaPro DM2 and DMediaPro™ DM6 and supports the same file formats as described above
• Supports user-definable region of the graphics frame buffer for display

DMediaPro DM6 Standard-Definition Digital I/O
• SMPTE 259M SDI video I/O PAL and NTSC support

DMediaPro DM6 Standard-Definition Digital I/O
• SMPTE 259M SDI video I/O
• PAL and NTSC support

Analog Audio (Standard) Mono-microphone, self-powered stereo
Desktop loudspeakers with headphone output, stereo analog-10dBV line level (18-bit A to D and D to A)
Digital Audio (Option) 16-bit analog stereo I/O (2 channels)
24-bit AES-3id I/O (2 channels)
24-bit ADAT optical I/O (8 channels)
XIO Cards Supported 4-port Ultra SCSI (4 differential)
4-port 100Base-TX and 6 460Kb/sec serial ports
2-port Fibre Channel
PCI Cards Supported
(Requires PCI Expansion Unit)
Single-port 1000Base-TX
Single-port 100Base-TX
Single-port differential Ultra SCSI
Single-port single-ended Ultra SCSI
Single-port Fibre Channel
Single-port ATM
PCI Digital Audio
Storage Options Internal:

3 internal 3.5" storage bays
20GB 4 mm DAT drive

External:

• 18GB 10,000 RPM Fast/Wide Ultra SCSI
• 3.5" 120MB Superdisk floppy drive
• 20GB 4 mm DAT drive
• 40X CD-ROM
• Digital linear tape
• SGI® Total Performance 900 (TP900), SGI® Total Performance 9100 (TP9100), SGI® Total Performance 9400 (TP9400), SGI® Total Performance 9500 (TP9500) storage systems

Bundled Software
System IRIX 6.5 Advanced Workstation Environment
X/OPEN XPGA Base 95 IEEE POSIX 1003.2 and 1003.1b
1003.1c FIPS 151-2
UNIX SVR4
4.3 BSD extensions
SVID3
X11 R6
Motif window manager 1.2
MIPS ABI
REACT real-time extensions
Graphics OpenGL
OpenGL Performer
OpenGL Volumizer
OpenGL Optimizer
OpenGL Vizserver
ImageVision Library
Open Inventor
OpenML and Digital Media Software Development Kit (dmSDK)
System and Network Management SGIconsole
Embedded Support Partner (ESP)
Failsafe high availablity solution
Performance CoPilot
Platform Computing Load Sharing Facility(LSF) Suite
TCP/IP
RSVP
DHCP
NetVisualyzer
SNMP management
SNMP MIB
NIS/ONC+
Filesystem and Data Management XFS 64-bit journaled file system with guaranteed rate I/O
Clustered XFS (CXFS)
ISO 9660 (CDFS)
NFS V3
Samba
Desktop Environments IRIX Interactive Environment with Personal System Administration for ease-of-use without system administrator assistance; Common Desktop Environmnetl GNOME (Freeware); KDE (Freeware)
Development Tools MIPSpro C
C++
Fortran 77/90 compilers
aAda95
ProDev WorkShop debugger with SpeedShop performance analysis tool
Power Fortran
APO (Automatic Parallelization Option)
SCSL libraries and Message Passing Toolkit for MPI
PVM and SHMEM programming
Interoperability NFS V3
Samba (Freeware)
Collaboration Software OpenGL Vizserver (client only)
Adobe® Acrobat Reader®
Netscape Communicator®
SGImeeting™
SGI® Web Server based on Apache
Teleffect
Utility Software InfoSearch for online documentation
RoboInst for streamlined software and update installation across a network of SGI systems
Impressario printing software
Security Trusted IRIX B1 Security
Digital Media SoundEditor
MovieMaker
ImageWorks
SoundTrack
FX Builder
MediaPlayer
Audio Panel
Synth Panel
Physical Environment
System 16.25" H x 11.0" W x 13.25" D
14.75" D (depth in localized area of power supply)
16.25" D (depth in localized area of optional PCI module)
54 lb
21" monitor 17.6" H x 16" W x 16.5" D
Voltage and Frequency 100-120/200-240 VAC 50/60 Hz
Heat Dissipation 2,400 BTU/hour
+13oC to +35oC operating
-10oC to +65oC nonoperating
Relative Humidity 10% to 80% operating, no condensation
10% to 95% nonoperating, no condensation
Altitude 40,000 ft nonoperating
10,000 ft operating
Vibration 0.02", 5-19 Hz; 0.35G, 19-500 Hz
Regulatory Agency Electromagnetic FCC Class A
Emissions Canada DOC Class A
CISPR22 Class A
VCCI Class A

1 Requires V10 or V12 graphics; refer to the DMediaPro DM2 datasheet for further details.