Engineering setup for Data transfer

The Philips TransferEngine (TE) software can be run in two modes.

A common mode is to run the client server version of TE.

• The TE client runs on the Platinum sgi (O2/Indy)
• The TE server runs on the data sgi (Octane/Origin/Challenge/Onyx)
• Only one SGI screen is needed in the transfer room
• Extra network speed can be handy when replaying recorded data clips, but it will all still work with 10baseT.

Aternatively the local version of TE can be used.

• The data sgi is local to the room
• Or the graphics is routed into the room from a remote sgi
• Then the network speed is not an issue.

In both cases the Pogle Platinum communicates via an ethernet socket interface to the data server SGI system running TE.

The Platinum SGI must be connected to the data SGI, usually via the house network and networking must be enabled.

In the /etc/hosts file on the Platinum SGI, make sure you have a line similar to this

192.9.200.100 onyx spirit-server

Change 192.9.200.100 to the correct ip address.

Change onyx to your prefered name for the data SGI.

spirit-server must be present as this is the name used by the Pogle system to access the data SGI via an ethernet socket interface.