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Installing T2 Linux 26.5 on SGI Altix, with GPU - 17-May-2026
Below are instructions for installing T2 Linux on an SGI Altix with a custom kernel that includes Altix support and patches to enable PCI GPUs to work....

Fixing the radeon and amggpu driver on SGI Altix - 17-May-2026
For over 15 years, people have been trying to use GPUs with acceleration on Silicon Graphics Altix 350s, however, no one has ever been able to get it to work. Finally, we have a fix. You can now use modern ATi/AMD PCI-e GPUs on SGI Altix 350...

Adding support for SGI Altix back into Linux - 16-Mar-2026
Linux removed support for the Altix in 2019, although it had been broken since 4.0 in 2015. To make matters worse, Itanium was removed from Linux in 2021. However, in 2026 with modern LLM tools, adding back support for a rare supercomputer is possible by one person that is not a kernel developer. Th...

This Website's Design Version 2 - 15-Mar-2026
I have redesigned the build process for this website. With the new build system, I can now write all website content in markdown files. These markdown files are then converted to xml files, which are still processed with xsltproc. ...

Configuring an HP Integrity rx2800 i2 - 11-Nov-2025
I recently picked up an HP Integrity rx2800 i2 server in a lot of server equipment. This is the newest Itanium server I own. In this article I will walk through configuring the system including setting up RAID array on the integrated p410i controller and installing HP-UX 11.31, along with installing...

Bootstraping T2 SDE Linux on SGI Altix From SLES - 10-Jun-2025
T2 SDE is a source based linux distribution and package manager that runs on many different architectures. It is one of the last Linux distros that support IA64, and has been ported to some MIPS SGI machines as well....

Setting up Solaris 8 on Ultra 10 - 31-May-2025
Some notes about setting up a build environment on Solaris 8, specifically my Ultra 10....

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