Re: [Closed REQ 5685]: what is gauss

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> From: Brad Barber <bradb>
> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 21:09:34 -0600
> Message-Id: <199512210309.VAA27399 at gauss.geom.umn.edu>
> To: support
> Subject: what is gauss
> 
> I am using gauss for timing comparisons for a paper on qhull.
> How should I describe it?
> 					--Brad
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> 

The quickest way to get stats on any SGI is the "hinv" command, used
like so:

gauss [9:35pm] [~] -> hinv
1 50 MHZ IP17 Processor
FPU: MIPS R4010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
CPU: MIPS R4000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.2
On-board serial ports: 4
Data cache size: 8 Kbytes
Instruction cache size: 8 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 1 Mbyte
Main memory size: 128 Mbytes
I/O board, slot F: IO3B
Integral Ethernet: et0, IO3
VGX Graphics option installed
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version WD33C93A, revision 9
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93A, revision 9

You could also simply describe gauss as a "50 MhZ R4000 Crimson VGX".

Of course a much faster machine than gauss (about 5 times faster) is
our new Reality Station, named dirichlet, with the following stats:

dirichlet [9:56pm] [~] -> hinv
1 250 MHZ IP19 Processor
CPU: MIPS R4400 Processor Chip Revision: 6.0
FPU: MIPS R4010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
Data cache size: 16 Kbytes
Instruction cache size: 16 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 1 Mbyte
Main memory size: 128 Mbytes, 2-way interleaved
I/O board, Ebus slot 3: IO4 revision 1
Integral EPC serial ports: 4
RealityEngineII Graphics Pipe 0 at IO Slot 3 Physical Adapter 2 (Fchip rev 2)
Integral Ethernet controller: et0, Ebus slot 3
EPC external interrupts
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version WD33C95A, differential, revision 0
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 1
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C95A, single ended, revision 0
CC synchronization join counter
Integral EPC parallel port: Ebus slot 3
VME bus: adapter 0 mapped to adapter 13
VME bus: adapter 13