Silicon Graphics Inc will formally introduce its high-end 128-way ccNUMA Cray Origin 2000 server on April 15 along with a roadmap describing product plans for the R12000 RISC and second- generation SN1 cut of its interconnect. Cray Origin2000 currently supports 64 processors. The high-end MIPS 10000-based Unix servers are currently being tested at 10 customer sites. In addition SGI’s now offering 250MHz R10000 CPUs for use with the Origin2000; has doubled the cache size on its low-end one-to-four way Origin200 servers to 2Mb – as Quick Cache – and is offering Origin2000’s 1.15Gbps XIO I/O subsystem for use with Origin200 as GigaChannel. Previously it had only been available via PCI slots. Origin200 Quick Cache with one CPU starts at $12,000; GigaChannel starts at $12,000. Two-way 250MHz Origin2000 boxes start $64,000.
