[rescue] KVM and Sunfire 280r
Joshua D. Boyd
jdboyd at celestrion.celestrion.net
Sat Apr 26 21:01:00 CDT 2003
On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 08:20:34PM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
>
> > Numerous people have put framebuffers and consoles on Cray's before.
> > Reportedly, even Apple has done it. So why not the E10k? Presumably
> > there is no other way ot get graphics out of the system than by a card
> > on the system bus, and if you have a fb in the machine, why not a
> > keyboard and mouse?
>
> Because graphics heads do not belong on servers. Even SGI knows that.
> You can't toss a head on a Challenge XL without a great deal of work.
> Servers are NOT workstations. They have consoles. These consoles are
> for installing the OS, performing emergency maintenance, and monitoring
> hardware--not for showing pretty pictures.
But, what if you want to use the machine for a large maspar workstation
for some project that requires more video bandwidth than HIPPI allows.
I though that all you needed to toss a head onto a Challenge XL was
their GUI-Extreme board for Challenges, and didn't require a backplane
and power supply change like the RE and IR options did. I've seen the
board, but I can't seem to google much on it at this moment. I seem to
recall that it was a set of extreme cards in a GIO->ebus adapter.
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