Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Life and Chemical Sciences
1500 Crittenden Ln.
Mountain View, CA, 94043-2776
Website: http://www.sgi.com/industries/sciences/chembio/
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Linux-Based High-Performance Visual Computing System
Silicon Graphics Prism is a flexible Linux OS-based visual computer product combines standards-based Intel Itanium 2 processors, the Linux operating environment, and graphics technology. Real-world applications such as cancer and proteomics research involve enormous amounts of data. Prism addresses terabyte-sized, highly complex data as a single contiguous data set in memory. Users are thereby able to quickly grasp complex relationships within their data. Scaling up to 16 graphics pipelines and 256 processors, the Prism family offers many times the visualization capability of currently available systems. To simplify and accelerate running applications on the new platform SGI has turned to Transitive Corporation for its QuickTransit product, which allows software applications compiled for one processor and operating system to run on another processor and operating system without any source code or binary changes. NUMAflex shared-memory architecture gives the system the large, complex data memory functionality needed for real-time technical environments. Visual computing products and OpenGL visualization software development tools include SGI's cross-platform OpenGL Performer and OpenGL Volumizer application programming interfaces (APIs).
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