Pipeline - Table of Contents
July/August 1994 (Volume 5, Number 4)
A list of articles that appeared in the July/August
issue of the Pipeline along with their summaries is presented here.
Describes Open Inventor and its major features. A comparison
between IRIS Inventor (based on GL), and Open Inventor
(based on OpenGL) is provided.
System Security: A Primer
Directed at experienced UNIX system administrators,
this article provides an overview of system security on SGI systems
as they are delivered. Issues that are important on
stand-alone as well as networked systems are discussed. Suggestions
for monitoring the system and for reporting suspected
security problems are provided.
The Internet: An Overview
Compares and contrasts Bulletin Board Systems (BBS)
and the Internet. Describes the services available on the Internet,
how to get connected, and SGI Specific Information available on the Internet.
Introducing Silicon Surf
Describes Silicon Surf, SGI's new Internet World Wide Web server,
and its major features.
Cache Behavior and Performance
Explores cache behavior on MIPS RISC R3000 and R4000
series processors. Provides an applied approach to avoiding
common problems which lead to poor performance due to misuse of cache.
Floating Point Exception Handlers Using libfpe.a
Using libfpe.a to unmask and handle floating point exceptions.
This article is a follow up to the article published in the
May/June 1994 issue of Pipeline (Volume 5, Number 3),
under the title `Floating Point Exceptions under IRIX'. Examples
in C, C++ and FORTRAN are provided.
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