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Silicon Graphics, Inc.


    SIGGRAPH 2005

    SGI demonstrates its newest visualization systems that support the development of innovative, interactive applications. Learn why you should deploy your application on Silicon Graphics Prism and engage with Open Source contributors, industry thought leaders, and leading ISVs who are integral parts of the unparalleled SGI visualization ecosystem.

    SIGGRAPH 2004

    SGI is a world leader in high-performance computing, visualization, and storage solutions.

    SIGGRAPH 2002

    Celebrating its 20th year-, SGI, also known as Silicon Graphics, Inc., is the world’s leading provider of high-performance computing and visualization solutions.

    SIGGRAPH 2001

    SGI is the world’s leading provider of high-performance computing and visualization solutions. We enable technical and creative professionals to turn their visions into reality.

    SIGGRAPH 2000

    SGI’s value-add computing solutions enable our customers to innovate within the core segments of their businesses, helping them stay one step ahead of the competition.

    SIGGRAPH 1999

    SGI is one company that combines high performance and visual computing, enabling our customers to gain powerful business insight and competitive advantage.

    SIGGRAPH 1998

    Silicon Graphics showcases a range of affordable visual computing solutions, from new desktop workstations to servers and visualization systems, which offer high performance and scalability.

    SIGGRAPH 1997

    See PCI-Silicon Graphics World

    SIGGRAPH 1996

    Silicon Graphics is the leading supplier of high-performance visual computing systems. From desktop systems, to servers, to graphics workstations to supercomputers, the company has defined new classes of computing and transformed them into practical, cost-effective solutions for a wide range of industries.

    SIGGRAPH 1995

    Silicon Graphics showcases its latest interactive 3D graphics, digital media, and supercomputing technologies on its Indy and Indigo workstations, Onyx graphics supercomputers, Challenge media servers, and POWER CHALLENGE Supercomputing systems. Interactive entertainment, virtual reality, and new visualization applications are featured in Silicon Graphics’ booths and throughout the show floor.

    SIGGRAPH 1994

    Silicon Graphics World is a monthly news magazine dedicated to the Silicon Graphics user community. Coverage includes news, features, columns, and new product announcements. The publisher, PCI, is the leading provider of vendor-specific computer newspapers and trade shows. Other publications include The Sun Observer, the HP Chronicle, Unisys World, RiSC World, HP/Apollo Workstation and Digital Unix News.

    SIGGRAPH 1993

    Silicon Graphics is the leading manufacturer of visual computing systems. The company delivers interactive 3D graphics, color, digital media, and symmetric multiprocessing technologies. See Silicon Graphics’ full line of workstations and servers, including its new desktop and deskside graphics systems and video servers.

    SIGGRAPH 1992

    Silicon Graphics is the leading manufacturer of visual computing systems, delivering 3D graphics, color, audio, video, and real-time technologies to the technical, scientific, and creative computing marketplace. Silicon Graphics shows its line of IRIS 4D workstations and servers, including its new top-of-the-line graphics systems with unmatched realism, and new IRIS Indigo RISC PC family members.

    SIGGRAPH 1991

    Silicon Graphics, Inc., the leading visual processing computer systems manufacturer, is showing several new products, including tools for scientific visualization, image processing, and simplified development of 3D graphics applications, along with a new low-end workstation. The Tutorium offers show attendees the chance to try out the new workstation running these new tools.

    SIGGRAPH 1990

    Silicon Graphics is a leading manufacturer of high-performance workstations and computing systems for visual processing applications. These workstations are used by engineers, scientists and creative professionals in the design, analysis, manufacture, and simulation of 3D products. From low-cost Personal IRIS to high-end IRIS POWER Series, Silicon Graphics offers the most complete family of binary-compatible products in the industry.

    SIGGRAPH 1989

    Silicon Graphics, a leader in 3D computing, is showcasing its complete family of 3D computers, servers, and workgroup products, and demonstrating the competitive advantages users experience through the utilization of 3D computing. Silicon Graphics and members of its Geometry Partners Program demonstrate solutions in design, drafting, scientific visualization, and other applications.

    SIGGRAPH 1988

    Silicon Graphics Inc., designs, manufactures, markets and services high-performance superworkstations, which are used for conceptual design, analysis and simulation of 3-0 objects and phenomena. Silicon Graphics sells its IRIS-40 Series Superworkstations to OEMS, VARs and end user organizations through a worldwide direct sales force. Silicon Graphics works with Geometry Partners who provide applications software solutions for key markets. Founded in 1981, Silicon Graphics has shipped over 7000 systems to more than 600 customers worldwide.

    SIGGRAPH 1987

    Silicon Graphics will demonstrate high- performance 3-D interactive graphics applications on the IRIS-4D Series, a RISC architecture-based family of superworkstations, and on IRIS 3100 Superworkstations. Demonstrations will include animation, MCAE, visual simulation, image processing, manufacturing simulation and conceptual design. The “Exploratorium” offers participants a “hands-on” introduction to 3-D visual computing.

    SIGGRAPH 1986

    Silicon Graphics will be demonstrating its full line of superworkstations which combine high performance computing with 3-D graphics capability. These superworkstations are aimed at the conceptual design, analysis and simulation (CDAS) market.

    SIGGRAPH 1985

    Silicon Graphics will be demonstrating the IRIS 2400 engineering workstation which functions as either a personal workstation or as a node in a distributed environment. Application programs which will be demonstrated on the IRIS 2400 include: solids modeling, finite element modeling and analysis, molecular modeling, and graphic arts and animation.

    SIGGRAPH 1984

    Silicon Graphics manufactures and suppor ts powerful computing systems designed for applications requiring real-time 2D and 3D graphics. The IRIS (Integrated Raster Imaging System) integrates the Geometry EngineTM , a custom VLSI graphics processor designed by Silicon Graphics, wth a powerful general-purpose computer the UNIX operating system, and Ethernet to provide the ideal solution for complex engineering and scientific applications.

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