SGI Fuel
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The SGI Fuel is a high-end workstation primarily based around a single R14000 MIPS CPU. SGI introduced the Fuel in January 2002 with a list price of US$11,495. Together with all the MIPS family, it was officially discontinued on December 29, 2006.
The Fuel is SGI O2's direct successor. Its larger sibling is the SGI Tezro.
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[edit] Architecture
The Fuel is based around the same architecture as the high-end servers of its time, the SGI Origin 3000-class servers. It shares many of the same features and uses the same components. That is, the Fuel is essentially a single-node, single CPU SGI Origin 3000, which can make purchasing individual components expensive.
[edit] Processors
The SGI Fuel is available with a R14000 or a R16000 processor running at speeds between 500 and 600 or 700 and 900 MHz respectively, with a front side bus (FSB) speed of 200 MHz.
[edit] Memory
The Fuel comes standard with 512 megabytes of proprietary DDR SDRAM. It is upgradable to a maximum of four gigabytes via two memory banks (four slots).
[edit] Graphics
The Fuel ships with two alternative VPro graphics options, the V10 and V12's.
[edit] Audio
The Fuel does not come with any standard audio hardware, however speakers may be attached via a USB sound card.
Additional audio options using PCI expansion cards capable of outputting either up to 8-channel, 24-bit analogue stereo or 2-channel, 24-bit AES audio and 8-channel, 24-bit ADAT digital optical audio are available.
[edit] Expansion
Four 64-bit 3.3V PCI slots are available for expansion, two of which run at 33 MHz and two of which run at 66 MHz. The system also has two internal U160 SCSI busses, with space for two internal 5.25" devices and three internal hard disks.
Although this machine was the first to support USB connections in IRIX, only audio and HID USB devices are supported.
[edit] Operating System
The SGI Fuel is only officially capable of running SGI's IRIX operating system.
