Technical Info

The CHALLENGE Family supports all major networking protocols with outstanding throughput.

HIPPI
Connect your systems together at up to 100MB/s.

IRIS OSI Transport Services Software
Integrate our SGI systems into world-wide WANS, using the international X.25 protocol standard.

IBM Connectivity
Connect your SGI servers with IBM legacy systems.

DECnet
DECnet and LAT integration software.

Synchronous Communication Cards
Get further information on the hardware solutions available on the CHALLENGE server.

The CHALLENGE Family offers a robust operating environment that is both technologically advanced, and easy to administer.

IRIX 6.2
SGI's newest high performance symmetric multiprocessing operating system.

IRIX 5.3
SGI's high performance symmetric multiprocessing operating system.

Performance Co-Pilot
Toolkit for monitoring and managing systems performance.

IRIX PRO
System administration toolbox.

XFS
High performance 64 bit journaling filesystem.

IDO
IRIX Development Option.

REACT
Real-time extensions in IRIX.

Oracle Parallel Server
Oracle Parallel Server, providing high availability database access.

Trusted Irix
SGI's B1-level evaluated enhanced security operating system release for the defense-related community.

IRISConsole
IRISconsole uses only one workstation to manage the activity of several servers.

The CHALLENGE Family offers sophisticated backup and archival technology as well as hierarchical storage management.

CHALLENGE RAID
Disk array storage solutions, with smart controller, for data protection.