> > I have two old indigo2 sitting in the corner doing nothing
>
> I'm jealous - send one to me! :-)
>
> I'll pay shipping...
>
>

Have you looked on e-bay? Old SGI hardware is rediculously cheap, but is also rediculously slow by today's standards. Also, it's not uncommon for many University's and Companies to throw this stuff out or give it away ;)

Ned

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> I have two old indigo2 sitting in the corner doing nothing

I'm jealous - send one to me! :-)

I'll pay shipping...

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Rob

Yes, I was absolutely amazed at how slow an O2 was when I first ran seti classic on it. I never even tried on our older indigo's so I can't give you an accurate estimate.

There are clients for seti classic available for IRIX, so in the mean time you could always run classic on them. This at least should give you an indication of their speed as Boinc/seti seems similar (maybe slightly slower) to seti classic.

Sorry I can't be of more help, but I no longer have access to any SGI hardware to compile clients for it.

Ned

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> My guess is you won't even get 1 unit a day out of an indigo.

You're probably right, Ned. Sometimes I forget how slow they are compared to nowadays x86 pcs. [good ol' times...]. I'll give it a try though. Thanks, guys!

spectral

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Michael Aeschere was attempting to compile boinc/seti for their "SGI Origin 2800".

Check out his questions in http://www.ssl.berkeley.edu/pipermail/boinc_dev/2004-November/000993.html

Mail list was having connect errors when I tried, but google has them cached.

http://www.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev

> Does anyone knows where to get it? Or want to share?
> I have two old indigo2 sitting in the corner doing nothing and I thought about
> giving them something to crunch.
>
> regards
>
> spectral
>

Your best bet is probably to compile your own client from the linux source. See the links in my signiture below for instructions for compiling on linux. You may need to modify the source headers slightly to work with your compiler on Silcon Graphics.

However, don't expect an indigo to be very fast. My O2's used to take 16-18 hours under seti classic and even my dual MIPS Octane used to take 8 hours per unit per cpu. My guess is you won't even get 1 unit a day out of an indigo.

Ned

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*** Download Optimised BOINC and SETI Clients for Linux Here ***

Does anyone knows where to get it? Or want to share?
I have two old indigo2 sitting in the corner doing nothing and I thought about giving them something to crunch.

regards

spectral

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