World's First Interactive Linux® Visualization System
Silicon Graphics Prism® family stands apart in the visualization world, designed for breaking through barriers imposed by other computer system architectures and fundamentally reshaping the boundaries of what is possible.

Designed for Breaking through Barriers
For leaders, innovators and visionaries to push limits and solve previously unsolved problems.

• Unlock the secrets of the planet by intuitively grasping the complex interplay of oceans, sunlight and atmospheric effects
• Diagnose life-threatening medical conditions in unprecedented detail
• Achieve six-sigma quality by enabling domain experts to work collaboratively, not sequentially
• Extract currently unrecoverable petroleum assets through better understanding and management of existing fields

• Gain increased insight by easily working with all your data, all the time, at terabyte data sizes and beyond
• Discover hidden details by working at 100M Pixel resolutions
• Eliminate time consuming data preparation by interactively visualizing billion polygon models

• Access high performance features and capabilities
• Seamlessly and independently scale compute, memory, graphics and I/O
• Easily upgrade and integrate the ever-evolving best of breed components
• Start small and expand to meet the needs of your entire team

Best of Both Worlds: Award-Winning Visualization Architecture + World-Leading Linux Scalability
Combining the power of the SGI award-winning, scalable, shared-memory visualization architecture with the world-leading Linux scalability found in SGI Altix® high performance server products, the Silicon Graphics Prism family delivers the best of both worlds with unbeatable visualization performance and Linux innovation, all in a single platform. Based on best-of-breed industry-standard components, with Intel® Itanium® 2 processors and ATI® graphics processors, the system is both powerful and economical.

With the Silicon Graphics Prism visualization family, limits are meant to be broken. Scaling up to 16 graphics pipelines and 256 processors, the Silicon Graphics Prism family offers many times the visualization capability of any other computing system available. For leaders, innovators and visionaries, this scalability translates into the ability to interactively visualize terabytes of data in their native form without having to waste hours culling it beforehand. Instead, efforts can be focused on discovering hidden details in the dataset in order to push limits and solve previously unsolved problems.

Leveraging the power of true scalability, Silicon Graphics Prism provides the ability to easily scale system resources within a system to meet each customer's interactive visualization needs. Whether you are a power user working individually with demanding data sets, part of a team interacting in a collaborative environment, or solving the world's most demanding problems by roaming through terascale data sets, the scalable architecture of the Silicon Graphics Prism family of products meets your needs today while providing the capability to easily expand in the future.

Complete Visualization Ecosystem
Supporting this world-leading visualization family, SGI offers highly-advanced visual computing solutions, as well as SGI storage solutions designed with the speed, scalability and manageability required for data intensive environments.

A host of OpenGL® visualization software development tools are also offered, including SGI's cross-platform OpenGL Performer™, OpenGL Multipipe™ and OpenGL Volumizer™ application programming interfaces (APIs). With these tools, exploiting the power of true scalable visualization in application development becomes straightforward and painless.

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