By Elina Shatkin, August 10, 2004
Silicon Graphics is showcasing its visualization technologies at this year's SIGGRAPH 2004 conference at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Attendees will be able to view daily demonstrations in the following areas:
-- Scalable Graphics: In SGI's scalable graphics theater there will be 10 to 15 minute presentations illustrating the power of visualization with topics spanning scalability, flexibility, collaboration, and the importance of system architecture and key tools for visualization.
-- Innovate and Discover: With SGI's APIs (Application Program Interface) developers will learn how SGI software tools can help them innovate and discover scalable and cross-platform visualization applications, all of which convey the value SGI software creates for independent and in-house software developers.
-- Visual Area Networking: VAN allows customers to accelerate their work processes by giving end users far greater visualization capabilities to universally store, access and share enormous and complex datasets with anyone, anywhere and at any time
. VAN removes the requirement to have either the data or the advanced visualization capability local to the user and allows globally dispersed teams of people to visualize and interact with data in ways not previously possible.
SGI, with the OpenGL Architecture Review Board, announced the latest version of the OpenGL specification, incorporating support for OpenGL Shading Language. One of the most important and enduring standards in the computer industry, OpenGL 2.0 presents a revolution in graphics by providing high-level access to the programmable features of modern graphics processors and is an important step in creating photo-realistic, real-time 3D graphics.
Also, the company announced that Vanderbilt University selected an Silicon Graphics Onyx4 UltimateVision visualization system to power its new state-of-the-art Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education center.
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