Silicon Graphics Fuel®

The Silicon Graphics Fuel visual workstation maximizes the performance of your desktop applications while offering you unprecedented price/performance value. A premium blend of industry-leading technology from SGI, Silicon Graphics Fuel features the latest MIPS® R16000™ processor and the unparalleled VPro™ 3D graphics system for IRIX® in a new high-bandwidth architecture. Drive your creativity and productivity to a new level with Silicon Graphics Fuel.

Tezro is powered by up to four MIPS® processors in an advanced high-bandwidth architecture leveraged from the SGI® 3000 family of high-performance supercomputers and delivers industry-leading visualization, digital media, and I/O connectivity on the desktop. Tezro is designed to help topflight individuals and teams deliver cutting-edge results in ever-shorter production cycles--whether you are an innovative designer, scientist, engineer, defense specialist, film producer, or geophysicist.

Features and Benefits

Features Benefits
Single MIPS R16000 900MHz with 8MB L2 cache or single MIPS 800MHz with 4MB L2 cache Powerful MIPS processing in a high-bandwidth architecture increases application performance with CPU-intensive applications
Industry-leading 3.2GB per second memory bandwidth and 1.6GB per second system-to-graphics interconnect Highest levels of application performance and interactivity for image manipulation and real-time visualization with large models and data sets
4 integrated PCI slots, internal CD-ROM option Expanded range of affordable options
Advanced VPro™ Graphics Accessibility of Highest Quality Desktop Graphics
Outstanding scalable graphics performance with VPro V10 or V12 graphics with up to 128MB high-speed, user-configurable graphics memory Extremely fast geometry and fill-rate performance for high-speed drawing, even with very complex designs, and high-speed image generation, even with fully textured designs; maximum flexibility with color and screen resolutions and off-screen graphics memory
Advanced texture management with up to 104MB of texture memory; asynchronous texture download capability Interactive rendering of volumetric data sets; high-performance processing of textures
OpenGL on a Chip™ Hardware acceleration of OpenGL® core features, including 3D textures for volume rendering and imaging extensions
Hardware-accelerated specular shading Improved accuracy for lighting of 3D models; provides Phong effects without a performance penalty
48-bit (12-bit per component) RGBA High quality and precise control for 2D/3D imaging with 16-bit Z buffer capability
Support for high resolutions, including HDTV; full-screen stereo support and stereo in a window; Dual Channel Display option Capacity to display large data sets at high resolutions; stereo viewing options; cost-effective dual display for double the screen real estate with a single graphics board
96-bit hardware-accelerated accumulation buffer High performance and accuracy with depth of field, full-scene anti-aliasing, motion blurs, and other effects
UNIX® Operating System from SGI Provides Industry-Leading Real-Time Response and Reliability
Built on the fifth-generation 64-bit IRIX® operating system Industry-leading real-time response, serviceability, and reliability; binary compatibility with other SGI® IRIX products