The Engineering Design Group (EDG)

Current Computing Resources in EDG

Silicon Graphics Indy

Currently we have 14 Indy workstations for use by Engineering design group students, staff, postgrads and guests. The Indy's are all configured with 20" 24 bit Colour Display's, 32Mb of memory, 1Gb of Disk. They are powered by 100Mhz MIPS R4600 CPU's.

Silicon Graphics Indigo2

We have 2 high powered SGI Indigo2 workstations. These are mainly used for high graphics intensive modelling. They are both configured with 20" 24 bit Colour Displays, 64Mb of Memory, 1Gb of disk space. They differ to the Indy by having an EXTREME Graphics Board, with 6 geometry engines. This makes graphics operations extremely fast. They are both powered by 1 100Mhz MIPS R4000 CPU, with 1Mb of Cache.

Silicon Graphics Challenge L

The heart of our network is a Multi-CPU Challenge L server. It is used as both an NFS server, and to run high CPU and memory intensive jobs. It has 2 150Mhz MIPS R4400 CPU's, with 1Mb Cache per CPU. The system is configured with 64Mb RAM and 5 2Gb SCSI Disks. A CD-Rom and a 2Gb DAT drive are also installed on this machine.

Silicon Graphics Iris 4D25/4D35

Also available for use is 3 Iris 4D35 Workstations , and a Iris 4D25 Workstation. They have 16Mb of memory, and 200Mb of disk space. They are powered by 1 33Mhz R3000 CPU. They are configured as X-Terminals, and give you the choice of logging into an Indy, Indigo2 or the Challenge L