Flame on linux?

#1

does anyone have any idea when it will come?

#2

Since the latest ā€œgreat featureā€ they added was IRIX only (64Bit support, which it could and actually SHOULD have had since long) I wonder whether they will put out the Linux-Flame soon.
I think its more interesting what happens to inferno. Considering the fact that SGI stopped production of those last winter, I wonder what discreet is going to do about this nowā€¦

-k

#3

If you actually have the $225,000 to buy one of these, then maybe you should contact Discreet directly and ask them. It still requires a lot of expensive hardware to run. Just because it works on linux, doesnā€™t make it any cheaper then on Sgi.

I have worked at a few companies over the last year who has it on linux, but Iā€™m not sure if they were beta units of it it has already shipped.

I think its more interesting what happens to inferno. Considering the fact that SGI stopped production of those last winter, I wonder what discreet is going to do about this nowā€¦
SGI only stoped production of the Onyx 2(which is 10 years old). Inferno still runs fine on the Onyx 350 and I believe they were looking at Tezro as an option.

#4

I donā€™t have $300,000

HINT BEAKER HINT.

how ever I can get the flame software for 5,000 and I can build the system for what I want for about 3,000 how ever if they port in to linux my life is soooo much easyer and cheaperā€¦

#5

haha, thats rich, donā€™t know much about FFI do we. Flame software wonā€™t even start up without a stone and wire fiber channel array and the i/o card hooked up in the machine. Stone has to be licensed to every serial number of the drives in the array and the i/o card. Thats like 20-30k worth of equipment without the actual box. Good luck though.

#6

hehe. These softs cost the eyes of theface. But taking off all the hardware how much it must cost license for example of the Flint or Flame?

#7

Well in theory it could be a bit cheaper The IBM Intellistation should be quite cheaper than a tezro. Granted thats just one part of the package but it should make it a little bit cheaper.

Upsā€¦ I thought they cancelled the complete Onyx line. Good to knowā€¦ Though I doubt we will ever see a support for Onyx 4ā€¦

If Iā€™m not much mistaken price of flame software alone (yes you can get only the software, if you had the gear already) is still a 6 digit numberā€¦ :eek:

-k

#8

Actually, I think I saw somewhere (donā€™t remember where) that the software alone is $90,000ā€¦ so only 5 digits!

What a bargain!

#9

Depends on the currency :wink:

I sort of remember when we got our flame and inferno some years ago flame soft list-price used to be more than 200.000 DM (if I remember correctly) Now with the euro and the current change to $ and the years that passed it might be just narrowly touching the 6 :wink:

In any case. Itā€™s still rather heavyā€¦

-k
#10

Your thinking of Flint, it is around 90k. Flame is 250k and Inferno is 350k.

#11

Are you sure these are Software only prices? Iā€™m rather certain that you could get a flint/smoke bundle for about 110.000Ā€ some time ago. So Iā€™d guess the 90.000 for a flint is a complete system not just the software. Oh well.

-k

#12

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