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Silicon Graphics Fuel
A later SGI desktop workstation running IRIX.
MakerSilicon Graphics
Era2000s
TypeTechnical graphics workstation
About this object
The Fuel belongs to the later generation of SGI systems in the collection. Its tower enclosure can be compared with the earlier Indigo, O2, and Octane.
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Technical record
Silicon Graphics Fuel
| Introduced | 2002 |
|---|---|
| Processor | MIPS R14000A 500–700 MHz, or R16000 700–900 MHz |
| Memory | Up to 4 GB DDR |
| Graphics | VPro V10 or V12, the Odyssey architecture |
| Expansion | PCI-X |
| Operating system | IRIX 6.5 |
Architecture
The Fuel is the Origin server architecture reduced to one processor and put on a desk. It carries the memory system and the Odyssey graphics of far larger machines without their cost, which made it the last SGI workstation a small studio could reasonably buy. It also marks the end of the line: by this point the commodity graphics card had caught up, and the argument for a proprietary workstation was running out.
Record & provenance
The Fuel belongs to the later generation of SGI systems in the collection. Its tower enclosure can be compared with the earlier Indigo, O2, and Octane.
Reference: ATX-OBJ-005-9B57C827670F46E213621EC9FF879EE1
Source: collection inventory, photographs, and notes accompanying Serious Machines (Amir Husain, 2024).