SGI Fuel
The SGI Fuel is a mid-range workstation developed and manufactured by Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI). It was introduced in January 2002, with a list price of US$11,495. Together with the entire MIPS platform, general availability for the Fuel ended on December 29, 2006. An equivalent product for the same market segment was not provided until 2008, when the Virtu product line was introduced, based on x86 microprocessors and Nvidia graphics.
| Manufacturer | Silicon Graphics, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Type | Workstation |
| Release date | January 2002 |
| Discontinued | December 29, 2006 |
| Operating system | IRIX |
| CPU | R14000 or R16000 |
| Memory | 512 MB DDR SDRAM (upgradeable to 4 GB) |
| Connectivity | USB |
| Successor | SGI Virtu |
| Related | SGI Tezro |
| Website | http://www.sgi.com/products/workstations/fuel/ Archived 2006-12-06 at the Wayback Machine |
The Fuel is sometimes perceived as the successor to the SGI O2, but it is not (SGI never made a new low-end system after O2). The Fuel was SGI's mid-range response to customers who only wanted a uniprocessor system, though the 4 GB RAM limit led to fewer sales than would otherwise have been the case, e.g. customers using ANSYS would have preferred at least 8 GB maximum RAM. Fuel's larger sibling is the SGI Tezro, a system that can have up to four 1 GHz R16000 CPUs with 16 MB L2 each. Both Fuel and Tezro are based on SGI's Origin 3000 architecture.