Gigabit Ethernet for SGI Fuel

Posted by Kaya Kupferschmidt • Wednesday, November 29. 2006 • Category: Workstations
Recently I got hands on an SGI Fuel, and I plan to use it for development (as soon as I ported my project to Linux - in other words, it will take a while). The Fuel offers some standard 64bit PCI expansion slots, and even supports some standard PCI cards. You can find a list of (inofficially) supported cards at Nekochan.

For myself, first I installed an M-Audio Revolution 7.1 card, which runs out-of-the-box. The next step was to install a gigabit ethernet card, as I have all my home directories stored on a central NAS Raid server. But this was not so easy, because of two problems: First the number of supported gigabit cards is rather low (and they are expensive), and they only work with a small kernel hack. But finally I got my hands onto two Compaq NC7770 Gigabit Server Adapter for 19EUR each. I installed one of the cards into my Fuel and followed the hacking instructions again found at Nekochan.

Now I have working a cheap but powerful gigabit ethernet card in my Fuel, the same trick should also work on an Octane with a PCI card cage and an Origin. Maybe I will try to install the second card into my O200 some time.

What am I doing?

Posted by Kaya Kupferschmidt • Monday, November 27. 2006 • Category: Programming
I really tried hard to post an entry onto this blog once a month - almost 9 months ago. Now I will retry to populate this blog again with some information. So what am I doing at the moment? I am still working a lot on Magnum in my spare time. Expect an intermediate release soonwith lots of changes inside and outside; among those are:

  • Switch to subversion as a source control system.

  • Switch to scons as a build system.

  • Removal of NVI (non virtual interface) pattern from API.

  • Basic functions for a generic meta-compiler.

  • Added some kind of unittests.

  • Lots of API refacturing and bugfixing.


As you can see, although I haven't updated Magnum for a while, I really have been busy making it a better framework. I guess the rework of the API and the final metacompiler won't be ready for some time, so there will be an intermediate release (I don't want to say "development release", as all releases are mainly for developers) giving a glimpse of the new features mentioned above. And I promise to you, the metacompiler will be really hot!
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