CFA 317 Octane Accounts
There are nine SGI Octane workstations in
College of Fine Arts Room 317.
The Octanes have more memory (128 megabytes)
and their graphics is faster than the Indy's in Wean 5205.
Indy's don't have hardware texture mapping, but Octanes do.
We have general approval to
use these machines for 15-462 or 463, but beware of two things:
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These are primarily Art Department machines,
so it would be wise to defer to art students and
classes that are using the machines.
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These are not "Andrew Machines" in the usual sense of the term,
since they are not administered by Computing Services, I don't believe.
They don't have the AFS file system.
Their software environment is not the same as the
other Andrew machines -
I've heard they don't have compilers in their file systems (due to lack
of disk space)!
They do have some nice interactive modeling software (Alias/Wavefront) however.
So you might have to compile elsewhere and FTP executables and shared object
files to get your software working.
It might be worth it for software that requires lots of memory, lots of
floating point power, or the fastest 3-D graphics hardware.
It's good manners to be in the room, not just running jobs
remotely, if you're tying up several of the machines on massive
computes during the day.
How to get an account.
The names of the machines:
- surrealism.cfa.andrew.cmu.edu
- expression.cfa.andrew.cmu.edu
- romanticism.cfa.andrew.cmu.edu
- cubism.cfa.andrew.cmu.edu
- fauvism.cfa.andrew.cmu.edu
- dada.cfa.andrew.cmu.edu
- impression.cfa.andrew.cmu.edu
- pointilism.cfa.andrew.cmu.edu
- artdeco.cfa.andrew.cmu.edu
- futurism.cfa.andrew.cmu.edu
15-462, Computer Graphics 1
15-463, Computer Graphics 2
Paul Heckbert, Jan. 1999