SGI Tezro
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The SGI Tezro is the most recently released (as of January, 2005) series of high-end computer workstation available from SGI, and is the immediate successor to the SGI Octane line. The systems are available in both rack-mount and tower versions, and the series was released in June 2003 with a list price of $20,500. The Tezro was released alongside the SGI Onyx4 (and because of component sharing, the Onyx4 and rack-mountable Tezro share many components, including skins).
Both tower and rack-mountable systems marked the return of the original 'cube' logo to SGI machines, which was welcomed by the loyal user base.
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Architecture
Similar to other SGI systems, the Tezro uses a non-blocking crossbar interconnect to connect all subsystems together.
ARCS is provided as the boot firmware, similar to all contemporary SGI computer systems.
Processors
Tezro systems including either one, two or four 800MHz 64-bit R16000 CPUs (in multiprocessor configurations) are available in both rack-mount and tower systems. Single and dual 700MHz R16000 CPUs configurations are also available.
Both the 800 and 700MHz CPUs each have 4MB of L2 cache.
Memory
The Tezro ships with 512MB of DDR SDRAM as standard, with tower versions able to utilise up to 8GB of main memory, and rack-mountable versions up to 16GB of main memory.
Graphics
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The high-end Odyssey graphics adapter, V12, is the only graphics configuration available.
Audio
Tower systems ship with analogue audio output as standard, while PCI cards provide audio capabilities (including 2-channel 24-bit AES and 8-channel ADAT connectors) on rack-mountable versions.
Expansion
The number of available 64-bit PCI slots included in a Tezro system depend upon the number of CPUs installed in the system:
- 7 133/100MHz slots in two- or four-CPU tower systems
- 3 133/100MHz slots in single-CPU tower systems
- 6 100MHz slots and one 66MHz slot in 4U rackmountable systems
- 2 100MHz slots and one 66MHz slot in 2U rackmountable systems.
All PCI slots in each Tezro model are 3.3V card slots.
A single U160 SCSI connector is available for attaching external peripherals, as is an optional FireWire card.
Operating System
The only operating system produced for the Tezro is SGI's IRIX.
External links
Tezro home page (http://www.sgi.com/workstations/tezro/) Press release announcing the Tezro (http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2003/july/tezro.html)