The Silicon Graphics Tezro visual workstation is an innovative, high-performance workstation platform that sets a new bar for desktop performance and reliability for visualization, multiprocessing, and digital media.
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
| High-Performance Processing and High-Bandwidth Architecture |
Maximized Performance and Throughput |
| Dual or quad MIPS R16000 1GHz with 16MB L2 cache or Single, dual or quad MIPS R16000 800MHz with 4MB L2 cache |
Leads workstation field with powerful processing that increases application performance with CPU-intensive and multithreaded applications |
| Industry-leading architecture based on the SGI® 3000 family features 3.2GB-per-second memory bandwidth |
Highest levels of application performance and interactivity for image manipulation and real-time visualization with large models and data sets |
| Up to seven PCI-X slots and internal DVD-ROM option |
Industry-leading I/O for maximum flexibility with options and data storage |
| Advanced Visualization |
Accessibility of SGI® Visualization on the Desktop |
| VProTM V12 graphics supported by the IRIX® OS and SGI APIs |
Interactive visualization for the most demanding desktop requirements |
| 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 |
| Hardware-accelerated specular shading (Phong effects) |
Improved realism and accuracy for 3D lighting without a performance penalty |
| 48-bit (12-bit-per-component) RGBA with 16-bit Z buffer capability |
Cinematic quality and highest precision 2D/3D imaging |
| Support for high resolutions, including HDTV; stereo viewing options; Dual Channel and Dual Head display options |
Displays large data sets at high resolutions and in multiple stereo modes; cost-effective and industry-leading display capabilities with support for four synchronized displays |
| 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 and other effects |
| Full suite of DMediaPro options with support for two streams of high-definition 10-bit 4:4:4 RGB video |
Highest quality multiresolution and multiformat real-time video input and output for broadcast, post-production, and film |
| Proven, robust IRIX® OS from SGI |
Provides Industry-Leading Real-Time Response and Reliability |
| Simple component access: tower and rackmount configurations |
Easy serviceability and flexible deployment |
