We note there’s a few Octane 2000s at the Jim Austin Computer Collection, so perhaps they might be the ones to achieve the feat. We’d dearly love to see such a setup happen at QuakeCon or a hacker con, though, so if you pull it off, you know how to call. Unfortunately, SGI hardware isn’t easy to come by, nor is it cheap, even decades after release - so thus far, the concept remains untested. goes so far as exploring the limits of the supercomputer-grade hardware, suggesting that 7 players or more could be possible.
Then, it’s a simple matter of firing up four instances of Quake and a dedicated server and you’re up and gaming. With all this hardware, it’s theoretically possible for four users to login to the X server running in the IRIX OS on the Origin 2000 machine. With multiple graphics cards and a few CAD DUO boards installed via a PCI adapter called the “shoebox”, there’s provisions for up to four separate monitors, keyboards and mice. However, by substituting in the IO6G module from the Onyx2 machine, and SI graphics cards from the Octane, it’s possible to get graphics and input up and running. These didn’t ship with any form of video output or even a keyboard and mouse interface. The idea is to use the Origin 2000 server as the base. found the idea intriguing, and has theorised that the same feat could be possible on mid-1990s Silicon Graphics hardware. By running multiple virtual machines on a single tower PC with tons of RAM and GPUs, it was possible to let seven gamers play on a single rig at once. Undertook a fun experiment a few years back.
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